From Disc to Drive: A Beginner's Guide to Preparing Your Media for Jellyfin

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Good point!  This functionality is also useful for cases where there is more than one version of the film, (Theatrical vs. Extended.  B&W vs. Colorized, etc.).  It might not be until the weekend, but I already have some additions/clarifications planned.  There is a great deal of information in my personal notes that I want to get cleaned up and integrated into the guide - tools and documentation that can save a ton of time when transforming media.

(Please move this if it isn't appropriate to ask in this thread).   I just started playing with Jellyfin to see where it is at and version naming is currently one of the hard stops I'm hitting.

Question:  Is there a way to get it to recognize Plex naming for movie version (or request this be added)? 

Going through a thousand titles to manually change all them is a huge negative if someone was considering switching and of course simply isn't going to happen if still want to use Plex as well since it would breaks it for Plex. With Plex of course resolution doesn't have to be specified, it is detected and given to you in the section when the matched movies of the same version are automatically grouped (without having to worry about whether they are all exactly the same as the folder there are in).  The version specified in the file name as {edition-VERSION}.

Note that I don't think their implementation is ideal movies of different resolution are grouped and can be selected by "version" drop down but you can't actually group an actual different version (eg: standard vs extended) and retain that information on the version drop down.   Though I prefer the separate listing implementation vs just a drop down if grouped. The fact that there is a different version would be missed more often than not as many movies I have are UHD and BR so there is usually a drop down and you may not remember/realize there is a different version hidden in that drop down, not just another resolution.

I'm trying to understand your question better.

Are you saying that you have multiple transcodes of the same file with the same name?

Or is your gripe more about the UI not being loud enough about showing that you have multiple versions?