2023-06-29, 11:15 PM
(2023-06-29, 10:49 PM)skribe Wrote: I'm not totally sure that I understand the goal. If you want to simply use something like a "folder view" where everything is organized according to the folder structure in the file system, that doesn't presently exist. There are some existing feature requests for it, but it's just not implemented right now.
If, instead, you just want to organize things a little differently, it sounds to me like a TV library might work for this. You could have each channel as a "show" and then either structure the underlying media as "seasons" based on year or just use something like an absolute episode order. Then you'd be able to browse the library by show. You might need to use custom NFO files to make sure that the metadata is collated correctly, or look for a plugin that can retrieve metadata for YouTube, if one exists.
Thank you but I think it's kind of the opposite. I don't want to see folders at all, only their contents as though they all exist in a single folder on storage. For example, if this is my folder structure on the network share:
folder for channel 1
|
--> 20230627 - youtube title.mp4
--> 20230629 - youtube title 2.mp4
folder for channel 2
|
--> 20230601 - youtube title for this second channel.mp4
When I open that library I'd like to just see a list of the videos and not see the folders containing them. Currently I see one folder per channel that matches up with the actual folders inside the data directory I'm giving to JellyFin as the location where the library should look. If I click into a folder I can see a list of the videos within that folder but only that folder. What I want is the entire library to show when I click on it. What I'm seeing in plex with that same folder shared is just a list of files like:
20230627 - youtube title.mp4
20230629 - youtube title 2.mp4
20230601 - youtube title for this second channel.mp4
That's what I'm trying to replicate here. I use folders on the storage so that they're organized when I browse them but when I open the library in JellyFin I don't want to see that those folders even exist. I just want to open the library and get a list of all videos within the library, allowing me to sort across the library by date added to quickly see the newest ones.
I really think this is user-error on my part and this isn't normal behavior, but no setting I've tried changing has helped and like I said before, no searching has turned up answers. And since it looks like I'm the only person with this problem, that confirms it's user-error. I just don't know where the error is.