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

[Dusty Carrier]

Guide is great for movies, but not super applicable to other media types, such as music, tv series/shows, or film series (like Planet Earth).

As an example of some things unique to those use cases that would be nice to cover here;

• Whether or not to keep Intros/Outros embedded into files. There are pros and cons for each case, and some series are more difficult than others to properly strip the intro/outro from. However, it can often save significant space to have the intro/outro as separate files from the main video, and it sidesteps the intro/outro skipping issue. The downside is that many series have unique intros/outros for each episode (The Simpsons for example) in which case, it may be preferable to keep to intro/outro for all shows just to maintain consistency.
  
• As for music, there's the whole shenanigans with properly naming/filing them all. Jellyfin is honestly just kind of bad at figuring out what's going on with my music library.
  

[Deleted User]

• As for music, there's the whole shenanigans with properly naming/filing them all. Jellyfin is honestly just kind of bad at figuring out what's going on with my music library.
  

since it's by users for users if it doesn't work as you would like then consider contributing to make it better - https://jellyfin.org/contribute

veiled complaints on a forum are not going to improve things

[Dusty Carrier]

• As for music, there's the whole shenanigans with properly naming/filing them all. Jellyfin is honestly just kind of bad at figuring out what's going on with my music library.
  

since it's by users for users if it doesn't work as you would like then consider contributing to make it better - https://jellyfin.org/contribute

veiled complaints on a forum are not going to improve things

It's likely just an issue with the internet not conveying emotion well, but this is actually more me complaining about my music library than it is me complaining about Jellyfin.

[Revv23]

Cheers for this!

Last time I had to relearn this skill all the old guides were from the 00's still.

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Guide is great for movies, but not super applicable to other media types, such as music, tv series/shows, or film series (like Planet Earth).

As an example of some things unique to those use cases that would be nice to cover here;

• Whether or not to keep Intros/Outros embedded into files. There are pros and cons for each case, and some series are more difficult than others to properly strip the intro/outro from. However, it can often save significant space to have the intro/outro as separate files from the main video, and it sidesteps the intro/outro skipping issue. The downside is that many series have unique intros/outros for each episode (The Simpsons for example) in which case, it may be preferable to keep to intro/outro for all shows just to maintain consistency.
  
• As for music, there's the whole shenanigans with properly naming/filing them all. Jellyfin is honestly just kind of bad at figuring out what's going on with my music library.
  

The guide is about ripping, not naming, there is tons of documentation about proper naming of your files. 

If you are confused though, for shows you can use sonarr to properly name them, and for music use musicbranz picard to properly tag your albums and youll hardly ever run into an issue again....

... until you try to sort out futurama. But by then youll be an expert!

[Revv23]

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?

[Tomato]

As an effin noob thanks so much for this. I didn't follow all the steps but just hacked and slash in what I needed. Starting my Jellyfin journey and can't wait

[2adave_27478]

love this tutorial. I set MakeMKV to 0, and ripped my first DVD called Cairo Station. Of course it is not in the DVDDB as it is esoteric 1959ish. But what is puzzling me is when I play the DVD I see the feature, the mini documentary, a director bio, and a director filmography. Yet those did not rip from what I can tell.
I want to contribute this to the databases, but I cant tell where to find the time stamps. I use VLC as my dvd player. Any tips on finding time stamps or divining what I am missing?
Dave
again great tutorial

[TheDreadPirate]

After the disc is read and analyzed is there only one track to select?

[2adave_27478]

In the case of Cairo Station it shows 4 tracks The two small ones are the Warning and the studio logos. The two larger ones are the feature movie and then a Cairo documentary. The two missing are the directors biography and his filmography. Thse my be jpegs as they are literally 0 seconds. Not a huge deal I am just practicing small before I attack muxing (if I even need to for my collection)
Thanks

[2adave_27478]

My last question for a bit.....Chapter editing...I don't see the purpose, or I am doing it wrong. In the MKVtool chapter editor menu, I want to delete chapter 1. While I see it is not gone in the tool, it actually still exists in the mkv container.
Confused on this one