2023-11-29, 12:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 2023-11-29, 04:23 AM by cloaked1. Edited 7 times in total.)
I have three libraries defined in jellyfin: Movies, TV shows, and Internet Media
I have my own method of sorting videos into these folders. For movies, jellyfin is great about automatically detecting the media and grabbing metadata. Internet media is not automatically scanned. I'm struggling with the TV shows library though. It seems that JF wants to be prescriptive about where to place the metadata in conjunction to the media files.
My Movie library follows the following directory structure: /path/to/media/
and again, that works great!
My TV Show library follows the same structure: /path/to/tv-media/
For obvious reasons, this sucks and is unfortunate because JF is placing metadata in this location which is only relevant to one title in this directory containing several shows.
Now if I need to restructure my directory then that's fine, but I need to know what structure to use, however, I will be a little upset if <year> isn't part of the structure.
- J
I have my own method of sorting videos into these folders. For movies, jellyfin is great about automatically detecting the media and grabbing metadata. Internet media is not automatically scanned. I'm struggling with the TV shows library though. It seems that JF wants to be prescriptive about where to place the metadata in conjunction to the media files.
My Movie library follows the following directory structure: /path/to/media/
<rating>/<year>/<movie title>/filesand again, that works great!
My TV Show library follows the same structure: /path/to/tv-media/
<rating>/<year>/<tv title>/<season>/files
This is where things get wonky. JF wants to store metadata in /path/to/tv-media/<rating> namely files such as:
Code:at 16:39:32 ❯ ls -altr
drwxrwxr-x jellyfin jellyfin 3 B Tue Nov 28 15:37:02 2023 2017-
drwxr-xr-x jellyfin jellyfin 5 B Tue Nov 28 15:41:10 2023 ..
drwxrwxr-x jellyfin jellyfin 8 B Tue Nov 28 16:27:36 2023 2012-2014
drwxrwxr-x jellyfin jellyfin 10 B Tue Nov 28 16:31:36 2023 .
drwxr-xr-x jellyfin jellyfin 4 B Tue Nov 28 16:31:37 2023 2018
.rw-r--r-- jellyfin jellyfin 85 KB Tue Nov 28 16:31:34 2023 folder.jpg
.rw-r--r-- jellyfin jellyfin 21 KB Tue Nov 28 16:31:35 2023 banner.jpg
.rw-r--r-- jellyfin jellyfin 82 KB Tue Nov 28 16:31:35 2023 backdrop.jpg
.rw-r--r-- jellyfin jellyfin 52 KB Tue Nov 28 16:31:36 2023 logo.png
.rw-r--r-- jellyfin jellyfin 3.3 KB Tue Nov 28 16:34:15 2023 tvshow.nfo
...when where I was hoping it would put it is in /path/to/tv-media/<rating>/<year>/<tv title>`For obvious reasons, this sucks and is unfortunate because JF is placing metadata in this location which is only relevant to one title in this directory containing several shows.
Now if I need to restructure my directory then that's fine, but I need to know what structure to use, however, I will be a little upset if <year> isn't part of the structure.
- J