Found my way into folder collapse, looking to start over...

[Andrew McNamara]

Main path to everything; /volume1/Data/Ripped DVD's

Respective paths...
 - Movies; ./Ripped DVD's/Movies
 - TV Shows; ./Ripped DVD's/TV Shows

Prev setup included a mixed media library, which I guess can, even if not always cause issues. Maybe that was the case for me, but I'm just taking the scientific method to the board and just starting over w a hint based on one hierarchy read I found online.

This is how the stack file in portainer currently exists, and was ran under the old setup that ended with a folder collapse w a mixed media library.

Stack file...

Code:

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: Jellyfin-HT
    user: 1000:10
    group_add:
      - 105
    environment:
      TZ: America/New_York
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/jellyfinht/config:/config:rw
      - /volume1/docker/jellyfinht/cache:/cache:rw
      - /volume1/docker/jellyfinht/logs:/logs:rw
      - /volume1/Data/Ripped DVD's:/media:rw
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    restart: on-failure:5
    network_mode: host

Everything runs at this point post install... next would be the setup via local:8096 (if nothing needs edited to the stack file to get to the end results desired. I'm guessing I'll need to edit 1 path and add another.).

Anyway, I've readjusted some folder names as most everything else was accurate prior to the current rebuild. Really all I did was append dates to some things.

So here's how the complete hierarchy as it currently exists, post minor modifications.

/volume1/Data/Ripped DVD's (keeping in mind respective TV SHow & Movie folders).

  - Sci-Fi
   - Matrix (folder)
    - title 1 date ttimdb
    - title 2 date ttimdb
    - etc.
  - Thriller
   - title date ttimdb

You get the idea, unlike most, my hierarchy includes genre folders inside the Movies & TV Shows folders. They existed pre & post folder collapse on the old build... which I think was due to a TV show that had Comedy in its title in the comedy folder. But this show folder was also just titled with no date, but that date has since been added to the show folders name.

TV Shows carry the same hierarchy, so no need to otherwise demo that...

Seasons are worked in under the main title folder. 

Season 1 date
Season 2 date
Season 3 date

So on & so forth, with their respective contents across the board for all shows as S01E01

I hope this is fully understandable, but I guess I'm asking what if anything do I need to do to the existing stack file to make everything translate properly to the web side of things for final setup.

[Andrew McNamara]

Moving forward w setup, I missed something that prompted the q.

If it works, and I see no significant reason it doesn't. Everything should work like before, but we'll see if I get a folder collapse again. Everything otherwise now includes a year, and I'm separating Movies & TV show libraries.

Edit: Ok, so its building whatever it'ss doing now. But it looks like it fucking collapsed The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour into the genre Comedy folder. Only think to tech avoid this and keep my genre structure in tact would be to, if I'm right. Just avoid shows with words matching my genre folders and dumped the name show into I love Lucy as a tech S7 which it is considered.

Only reason I'm certain of this is because the collapse turns the genre Comedy into a fucked show folder (The Colgate Comedy Hour)

Edit 2: This site has me about to say some stuff, so im bouncing after this short and sweet that got lost in translation down from 3 sentences. What dev thought, duuh. Gee george, lets not do genres and let people search over 300 titles alphabetically.

Seems thats the underlying issue for me. Not The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour collapsing into the genre Comedy to give fucked folder named The Colgate Comedy Hour.

[Andrew McNamara]

Lol, under a non mixed library... it removes the 3 legacy creature of the black lagoon movies from a main folder that showed appropriately on a mixed library.

Why do I feel like I'm better off paying for Plex.

I mean honestly, there's no real significant organizing system to jellyfin.

Its like honestly... exaggerated but still a point.

ok, 400 movies here in Movies, 300 shows here in TV shows. Hands washed, they can sort by letter of the alphabet.

If someone wants something specific, it may as well be a needle in a shit haystack.

My file / folder titles in general are fine, but this forced hierarchy on metadata is bullshit and the ultimate reason of the collapses people experience. Tell me I'm wrong and you're lying, it's in other forums around the world.

Hell, DLNA is basically where the party is at for folder organization. It just omits a nice GUI w cover art in the simplest of terms if ignoring watched / unwatched attributes. But I'm nuking this jellyfin setup for now. Its easy enough to start over if someone could plz help me decide to stay with jellyfin and why.

Ty.

Ps, yes I saw what I'll call a pocket feature when setting up the libraries for say mixing all Mummy movies. But you know what it wont do is include the scorpion king stuff. Or how not all basil rathbone movies have sherlock holmes in the title to handle this. Where the custom folder stuff I have works for this that's generally system ignored comes in handy.

Oh and save the click the genre tab at the top. Thats a 2 paragraph rebuttle.

Edit; Def not the desi show causing the collapse. I now think it's 2 broke girls doing it bec of the fucking 2, but back on Mixed media for good of the scientific method.

[Andrew McNamara]

So far it's holding stable w the Desi show & 2 Broke Girls removed. After the current meta bs is done. I'll toss back in Desi & go from there. But cursory summary is my mixed media structure is overall fine (even better w all the naming tweaks), with exception to 2 Broke Girls collapsing all of the Comedy genre into one big fuck all.

[Andrew McNamara]

Unless something collapses for a diff reason, I've an otherwise superbly mixed library. That said, I've decided that to be able to move forward... I added on top of Movies & TV Shows. A folder called Problem Shows where shows like 2 Broke Girls can go that collapse deeper level structures as prev described, but instead sit at a top level type structure in the new folder.

So far so good w everything.