2025-04-03, 02:44 AM
Collections Based on Tags/Actor/Director · Jellyfin Feature Requests
The above is an existing FIDER that most closely matches what I'm thinking about (and I commented there, too).
FIRST: Why I care about this
I have my media on a NAS. I run JellyFin on a Mac Mini.
If the NAS needs to reboot, and I forget to shut down Jellyfin on the Mac before the reboot, I lose all of my collections that aren't "automatically set up" (like Movie collections, or things that the "box set" plugin knows how to deal with). Yet, when the NAS comes back online, I don't lose any of my metadata or information about those series, as it's all stored in
WHAT I TRIED: Seemed like it should just work
A lot of media gets Tags from various internet database plug-ins. So, my media already has the tags I need it to have. So then I notice that a Collection itself includes the same metadata fields. So, if I just add the Tag: "anime", I should get a collection of everything that includes the tag "anime", too. It's a bit hidden, but it's pretty intuitive, except that it doesn't work. So, I went searching here, and then searching FIDER, and here we are.
WHAT I WANT:
I think the Metadata edit method would be a decent default scan feature. If nobody touches a collection's metadata, then the collection would act as it always had.
ALTERNATIVELY:
I'd like to see a Collections object SAVED within the
The above is an existing FIDER that most closely matches what I'm thinking about (and I commented there, too).
FIRST: Why I care about this
I have my media on a NAS. I run JellyFin on a Mac Mini.
If the NAS needs to reboot, and I forget to shut down Jellyfin on the Mac before the reboot, I lose all of my collections that aren't "automatically set up" (like Movie collections, or things that the "box set" plugin knows how to deal with). Yet, when the NAS comes back online, I don't lose any of my metadata or information about those series, as it's all stored in
nfo files with the media itself.WHAT I TRIED: Seemed like it should just work
A lot of media gets Tags from various internet database plug-ins. So, my media already has the tags I need it to have. So then I notice that a Collection itself includes the same metadata fields. So, if I just add the Tag: "anime", I should get a collection of everything that includes the tag "anime", too. It's a bit hidden, but it's pretty intuitive, except that it doesn't work. So, I went searching here, and then searching FIDER, and here we are.
WHAT I WANT:
I think the Metadata edit method would be a decent default scan feature. If nobody touches a collection's metadata, then the collection would act as it always had.
ALTERNATIVELY:
I'd like to see a Collections object SAVED within the
nfo files of things added to a collection, so that it can be set once, and "remembered" later. If folks think THAT would make a better stand-alone request, let me know, I'm not adverse to adding that. I say this based on https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/73/c...sed-on-nfo , which is supposed to already work (though I've never seen it work).