Change NFO Location

[discokongo]

Yes! Would love this. 

I've been faulthandling an issue SO damn much before I just figured it out. 

My torrent program keeps erroring out with broken files and have to be re-verified. I've checked the hard drives health, the ram, whole unraid server, the torrent program, scratching my head trying to figure out. 

I FINALLY, TODAY, noticed the only checksum that is changed pre and post verification is the .nfo file. 

So I download a video file, and fellow .nfo file. Jellyfin overwrites the .nfo file with it's own information, with the exact same name as original .nfo-file. When a peer try to fetch the block containing the .nfo file it doesn't match anymore, and torrent go into error mode.


I've been frustrated and lost about this issue FOR 2 YEARS. Almost bought new disks and RAM lol.


edit: Or for my issue, perhaps just add .jellyfin. before the .nfo. Aka: Movie.jellyfin.nfo instead of Movie.nfo since it's already so standardized to keep information about movie in Movie.nfo, and not metadata for a specific application.

[METALHEAD]

If you are using Jellyfin why would it matter if the media directory is "cluttered" with images and NFO files?  You don't see the "clutter" since you are viewing your media with Jellyfin.

I don't just use Jellyfin, and these nfo files are showing up in file explorer, searches etc.
It would be nice for Jellyfin to store all nfo files in a seperate folder so that I can get back to my normal file structure.
Sure its subjective and all, but other competitors allow this and I wanted to get a conversation going about getting this feature added to save my sanity, and many others.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

You can disable NFOs to have Jellyfin store all that data internally within the config folder.
You can also disable Jellyfin from storing image artwork with your media files too.