How can I get a list of movies not added

[fab]

Hey,
Is there a way to see what movies have not been added to Jellyfin? I've got so many in my movies folder and I tend to make spelling mistakes so I'm sure some would be missing.

[skribe]

You could compare the number of files in your storage. But what you're asking is just sort of inherently impossible for Jellyfin to do. It really wouldn't have any way of knowing what it doesn't find.

There are 3rd party tools that could also probably help here, like TinyMediaManager.

[Owner]

see Kodi Add-ons from main screen

Missing Movies
Missing TV Shows
Missing Episodes

It lists all the files that failed to scrap, the software knows what it scraped, and that it did not get anything back from that Database, so it lists everything that's missing.

Jellyfin does not bother to tell you what is missing, but could be programmed to do so if anyone needed such notification.

from my use of Kodi and Jellyfin I get:

For every 10,000 files scraped with jellyfin about 1,000 are missing.
For every 10,000 files scraped with Kodi about 500 are missing.

But! jellyfin never misses in giving you a still, even when the scraping fails.
But! when kodi scraper fails, you don't even get a still!

[Owner]

Miss-spelling things does not matter that much on some next generation Media Centres as they have copied Googles AI search interface, so when you miss-spell something they ask do you mean "abcd" if you say yes, then they usually scrap what you meant and correct your faulty spelling.

[Deleted User]

a native solution (without the implied use of kodi or other 3rd party)

use the Reports plugin which will allow you to sort and view all entries

it is compact and concise enough that locating files without backdrops or proper titles will reveal which have not been scraped


f.e. sorting by dateAdded if you want to find out which of the recently scanned did not scrape

edit:

i just looked at the reports on mine, items which have not been scraped do not have a 'ReleaseDate' so i am able to sort by it and those entries all rise to the top

[Six66Mike]

I've been manually cross-checking mine all year against my spreadsheet I managed while I was a Zappiti user, I'm almost done movies starting with R now and finished TV shows already. As above, the Reports is a good starting point in that you can filter by Movies and see how many titles it has, and compare that to your file count to see if there's a difference.

If the report includes Path, you can search that to find any that have been incorrectly identified as the wrong movie.

Zappiti handled this well, anything it couldn't identify it flagged with you, HT4.0 apparently does the same from Zidoo, so it would be really great if Jellyfin did 2 things:

1. Flagged what content it didn't match when new content was added.
2. Allow you to run a report after an import to see what file matched to what content, so you can see if there are any mismatches.

[Ejz]

Uhm problem with the "report" plugin is that it dosent even list the ones it did not try to scrape? I have missing videos in my libary that hasent even tried to be scraped i guess.
How can I manually add movie files?

[TheDreadPirate]

Click on your user Icon in the top right, click Metadata Editor.  Any content that Jellyfin is able to read, but didn't identify will show up as a folder icon instead of a movie icon (see picture).

You can't "manually add" movies.  You need to name them properly so that Jellyfin can parse the name and lookup the content on TMDB/TVDB/etc.

   

[gizmomelb]

Click on your user Icon in the top right, click Metadata Editor.  Any content that Jellyfin is able to read, but didn't identify will show up as a folder icon instead of a movie icon (see picture).

this seems to be an ideal feature request then, since the it appears that JF already knows that it is an unknown file - so feature request would be a filter button to show / hide known metadata (ie: hide known = show unknown).  This would make identifying unknown files / folders of all types extremely easy to identify, then manually rename them and scan again if needed.