2025-04-08, 08:51 PM
I'm a new Jellyfin user, moving away from an old Synology, running JF on Ubuntu in a VM.
As much as I enjoyed the easy setup process and the nice GUI, I was perplex by the results after the first scanning run on my /series/ parent folder: some 3000 entries without any structure and apprx. 10% even with a wrong detection.
Reading the "Shows" guideline I got the impression, JF does expect a rather specific folder structure and naming convention. I got a structure of my own, basically /series/nameofseries/season/episode where season is an integer and the episode's filename contains SxxExx with leading zeros and the title of the episode. However, the structure of the filename isn't the same for all series (it's the same within a series).
Example:
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E01 - Reboot in Brooklyn.mkv"
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E02 - Private Grenzen.mkv"
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E03 - Shopping Krieg.mkv"
...
JF did not manage to match these episodes to a season nor to a series.
Bringing all files to the same strucutre will be quite some work I'd prefer not to do.
Therefore i have two questions:
1) Is there a way to specify an individual RegEx/rule to "guide" JF to understand the directory structure and filename structure and to extract the right information for the right variables? I'd prefer to have a mapping rather then to have to rename all files and folders.
2) Is there a way to make JF to just follow the directory structure for grouping series? So top level = series, sub1 = season, sub2 all the Episodes? Like this the structure will be fine and if the episodes are ordered alphabetically, that would be fine too.
As much as I enjoyed the easy setup process and the nice GUI, I was perplex by the results after the first scanning run on my /series/ parent folder: some 3000 entries without any structure and apprx. 10% even with a wrong detection.
Reading the "Shows" guideline I got the impression, JF does expect a rather specific folder structure and naming convention. I got a structure of my own, basically /series/nameofseries/season/episode where season is an integer and the episode's filename contains SxxExx with leading zeros and the title of the episode. However, the structure of the filename isn't the same for all series (it's the same within a series).
Example:
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E01 - Reboot in Brooklyn.mkv"
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E02 - Private Grenzen.mkv"
"/series/2 Broke Girls/1/2 Broke Girls - S01E03 - Shopping Krieg.mkv"
...
JF did not manage to match these episodes to a season nor to a series.
Bringing all files to the same strucutre will be quite some work I'd prefer not to do.
Therefore i have two questions:
1) Is there a way to specify an individual RegEx/rule to "guide" JF to understand the directory structure and filename structure and to extract the right information for the right variables? I'd prefer to have a mapping rather then to have to rename all files and folders.
2) Is there a way to make JF to just follow the directory structure for grouping series? So top level = series, sub1 = season, sub2 all the Episodes? Like this the structure will be fine and if the episodes are ordered alphabetically, that would be fine too.