How does the naming scheme for anime work on Jellyfin?

[Avatar3379]

Hi guys, new guy here.

I was just wondering how sonarr should name my files for Jellyfin to recognize them? Is it as seen on their official documentation:

"Series Name A S01E01"

Or as seen on trash guides:

"{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {absolute:000} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Custom Formats }{Quality Full}]{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}[{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit]{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}[{Mediainfo AudioCodec} { Mediainfo AudioChannels}]{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}{-Release Group}"

Example:

"The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - 001 - Episode Title 1 [iNTERNAL HDTV-720p v2][HDR10][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp"

[TheDreadPirate]

A lot of that stuff at the end is extremely unnecessary.

Series Folder Name/"The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - 001 - Episode Title 1".mkv

Or you could reduce it even further. Here is how I do it and it works like this.

Series Folder Name/s01e01.mkv

[bitmap]

Here's mine, which works with Jellyfin. I avoid absolute episode numbers because many specials and even some one-shots/OVAs lack absolutes in TVDB.

Code:

{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Quality Title} {MediaInfo VideoCodec}{ MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType}{ MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit { Mediainfo AudioCodec} { Mediainfo AudioChannels}]{MediaInfo AudioLanguagesAll:EN+JA+}{MediaInfo SubtitleLanguages:EN+}{-Release Group}

[Avatar3379]

@TheDreadPirate Does "S01E01" work 100% of the time?

@bitmap Could you provide an example?

[bitmap]

Here's a full path example:

Code:

/media/core/series/Armored Trooper VOTOMS (1983) [90521]/Season 01/Armored Trooper VOTOMS (1983) - S01E01 - Wars End [Bluray-1080p AV1 10bit Opus 2.0][EN+JA][EN]-nAV1s.mkv

Since it's part of ensuring things are found correctly, you can add an ID of your choice to the folder naming convention in advanced settings:

Code:

{Series TitleYear} [{TvdbId}]

Following the naming scheme in Jellyfin's docs exactly, this would be:

Code:

{Series TitleYear} [tvdbid-{TvdbId}]

It works for me without the tvdbid- part, so I omit it since names can get a bit long...

[TheDreadPirate]

AFAICT, if the folder has the show name the file simply needs the season and episode number.  Heck, season folders don't seem 100% necessary either so I don't use those either.

Code:

chris@rat-trap:/media/library/TV Shows/Samurai Jack (2001)$ ll
total 32258760
drwxr-x---  2 chris jellyfin      4096 Mar  1 12:58 ./
drwxr-x--- 13 chris jellyfin      4096 Feb  2 00:16 ../
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 631855295 Jun  4  2023 s01e01.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 614999130 Jun  4  2023 s01e02.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 644542814 Jun  4  2023 s01e03.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 599232411 Jun  4  2023 s01e04.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 602000823 Jun  4  2023 s01e05.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 443829192 Jun  4  2023 s01e06.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 724370764 Jun  4  2023 s01e07.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 617093303 Jun  4  2023 s01e08.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 501828421 Jun  4  2023 s01e09.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 524361701 Jun  4  2023 s01e10.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 494271560 Jun  4  2023 s01e11.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 516647994 Jun  4  2023 s01e12.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 568225965 Jun  4  2023 s01e13.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 608316874 Jun  4  2023 s02e01.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 467421069 Jun  4  2023 s02e02.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 521110533 Jun  4  2023 s02e03.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 572784021 Jun  4  2023 s02e04.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 570554541 Jun  4  2023 s02e05.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 534951382 Jun  4  2023 s02e06.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 511042506 Jun  4  2023 s02e07.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 624927327 Jun  4  2023 s02e08.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 475984760 Jun  4  2023 s02e09.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 518079697 Jun  4  2023 s02e10.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 525763077 Jun  4  2023 s02e11.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 433340376 Jun  4  2023 s02e12.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 566159047 Jun  4  2023 s02e13.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 593767933 Jun  4  2023 s03e01.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 455065989 Jun  4  2023 s03e02.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 601262648 Jun  4  2023 s03e03.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 512084592 Jun  4  2023 s03e04.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 489373262 Jun  4  2023 s03e05.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 488822516 Jun  4  2023 s03e06.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 469573093 Jun  4  2023 s03e07.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 501334284 Jun  4  2023 s03e08.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 591629333 Jun  4  2023 s03e09.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 499802408 Jun  4  2023 s03e10.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 570842951 Jun  4  2023 s03e11.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 626930733 Jun  4  2023 s03e12.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 421770862 Jun  4  2023 s03e13.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 460411798 Jun  4  2023 s04e01.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 585674101 Jun  4  2023 s04e02.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 725488337 Jun  4  2023 s04e03.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 487124936 Jun  4  2023 s04e04.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 442333825 Jun  4  2023 s04e05.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 556903134 Jun  4  2023 s04e06.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 460945989 Jun  4  2023 s04e07.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 588413564 Jun  4  2023 s04e08.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 434398658 Jun  4  2023 s04e09.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 517848064 Jun  4  2023 s04e10.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 689104068 Jun  4  2023 s04e11.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 492993465 Jun  4  2023 s04e12.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 661940514 Jun  4  2023 s04e13.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 522295142 Jun  4  2023 s05e01.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 519456522 Jun  4  2023 s05e02.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 434666546 Jun  4  2023 s05e03.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 432156464 Jun  4  2023 s05e04.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 438788302 Jun  4  2023 s05e05.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 470583664 Jun  4  2023 s05e06.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 438568412 Jun  4  2023 s05e07.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 459953517 Jun  4  2023 s05e08.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 561584605 Jun  4  2023 s05e09.mkv
-rw-r-----  1 chris jellyfin 414785564 Jun  4  2023 s05e10.mkv

   

Same goes for Specials. If the file is "s00" it will still be treated like a special even if it isn't in a Specials folder.

[bitmap]

I believe you're correct, the naming conventions call four uniformity for the most part. You can't have some season folders and not others for a show. The tvdb ID is listed as a tip in the Jellyfin docs. The rest of it is preference for me. You can ditch whatever you like, however, I like this setup for management purposes as well as re-/encoding. It's a clear indicator of processing, makes it easy to see at a glance whether I've brought media in line with my standards, and also can help in case I make a mistake somewhere along the line.

I'm being vague as to not further any verboten discussion. There's a difference between "to spec" and functional in this case IMO.

[Avatar3379]

@bitmap Does the episode names show correctly this way or does it only show as "Episode 1"?

@TheDreadPirate Do you have correct episode names too and does that naming scheme work for anime if you have any in your library? Also, what plugin are you using for Chromecast?

[TheDreadPirate]

Works with anime.  All metadata is scrapped as expected.

   

[Avatar3379]

@TheDreadPirate One last question. Do you start at episode 1 for every season or do you name them like "S04E354"? Especially One Piece does this to keep track of which episode you're on.