Customizing Scanning/Indexing?

[TheDreadPirate]

1. There is no setting or config file to modify the scanner's regex. You'd have to modify the code directly and recompile.
2. Only if you follow the naming conventions.

Emby and Plex also have some organizational requirements, though I know they are somewhat less strict. The reason for the strictness has to do with special functions like handling "extras" differently than episodes, merge "versions" of a movie as one listing. How does the scanner determine where arbitrary organization ends and where the movies/shows actually begin? How does it differentiate between episodes/movies and the extras? How does it know which files in a multi-version movie setup to "merge"?

By adhering to a set of rules.

There are tools that you can use to mass re-organize your media in a Jellyfin friendly way. Tiny Media Manager is our go-to.