help naming Plex to JF

[Phrenemy]

Hi,

I have a number of shows which have been used in a Plex context and I'm wanting to move over to Jellyfin.
(Currently, Jellyfin is running with the files, but there's been problems which I assume derive from retaining the Plex naming, and I want to resolve them. Plex and Jellyfin are currently both running. I've been testing Jellyfin to see if it works for me.)

What I'm after is a good guide on how to migrate the naming schemes between these two servers.
I'm aware of the webpage where is explains TVs, movies, etc; but, this page doesn't explain everything and I'd rather get it right the first time, since this will take a fair amount of work.

For example, Plex allows multiple resolutions of a show/movie and then selects the most suitable one for your client. You do this following:
SHOW S01E01 NAME {edition-1080p}.mkv
SHOW S01E01 NAME {edition-720p}.mkv

It seems vaguely possible to do this in Jellyfin, but I have no idea how and it's not in the documentation. Currently, the episode shows up multiple times, one for each resolution.

Another example would be the best way to add nfo files, since I've not had to deal with them using Plex. eg., per episode or per season or per show.

Any help would be appreciated.
thanks

[TheDreadPirate]

Replace the squiggly brackets {} with square brackets [].

Also, Jellyfin does not currently do "versions" the way that it does for movies. You can still do "version", they will just be separate listings for the show/season.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-group-series-episode

[Phrenemy]

When Jellyfin is going to list a name for an episode, is there a way to not show the technical info listed in the file name, such as video and audio codecs, resolution, Rip Time?

[TheDreadPirate]

For an episode of movie, if you click on the "..." context menu for that file there is a "Media Info" view that will show all the technical info about the file. I'm not sure what you mean by "Rip Time" though.

[Phrenemy]

Oh. I meant in the file name and how it's listed in the client.
eg., NAME S01E01 TITLE 1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS.mkv

I think I figured out how to approach it by using nfo files (which I haven't used thus far), but I was asking how Jellyfin would natively read the above file example and under the show "NAME" in the S01E01 slot only give "TITLE" in the client.
For some of my shows, I think only custom ones, I get TITLE plus the "1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS".

Would Jellyfin ignore it if the file name was
NAME S01E01 TITLE (1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS).mkv?
Or some other bracket?

[TheDreadPirate]

Jellyfin would show whatever it retrieves from TMDB/TVDB/your preferred metadata DB. All the extra resolution, codec tags in the file name are ignored. When it scans the file with ffprobe it will retrieve all that information and it will display in the UI the codec, resolution, etc.

Having said that, we generally recommended removing all those tags since A) they are ignored by Jellyfin for the purposes of tagging and B) they are NOT ignored for the purposes of identification of the show/movie and can sometimes cause identification issues.

The exception being when you follow our syntax for "multiple versions" of a movie.

[Phrenemy]

Oh. I meant in the file name and how it's listed in the client.
eg., NAME S01E01 TITLE 1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS.mkv

I think I figured out how to approach it by using nfo files (which I haven't used thus far), but I was asking how Jellyfin would natively read the above file example and under the show "NAME" in the S01E01 slot only give "TITLE" in the client.
For some of my shows, I think only custom ones, I get TITLE plus the "1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS".

Would Jellyfin ignore it if the file name was
NAME S01E01 TITLE (1080p Bluray x265 5.1DTS).mkv?
Or some other bracket?

[TheDreadPirate]

In a Shows library the title or episode name is retrieved from your online metadata source. It is NOT pulled from the file name. The title in the file name is only used for constructing the query to TMDB/TVDB/etc.