Metadata Orientation and 101

[iAmEhead]

For a long time I've just used DLNA (Mezzmo) to watch videos on my Nvidia Shield but I thought I would finally try something more sophisticated.

Just installed Jellyfin and pointed it at my Movies folder and my Documentaries folder. What it did with the Movies folder was remarkable... pretty much every Movie was identified by the metadata/scraper without any issue.

The documentaries folder however turned out to be quite a mess. A lot of these are Ch4, BBC, PBS, Al-Jezeera and NHK stuff (grabbed from YouTube). Fixing my naming conventions for the folders would probably help some. I usually add the network at the end of the folder name, as in "Begin Japanology (NHK)", and I think this is messing things up.

I think other docu's may just be flat out too obscure.  I was thinking of using an external tool like TinyMediaManager or something to create info files and have JellyFin read those in. Does anyone know of a good tool that's easy to use and will create files JellyFin can read? Or, if anyone has any other tips for obscure TV documentaries like this that would be great.

One thing that would be nice, but I couldn't figure out a way to configure this... if on the client end I could have a view for some libraries where it just listed the folders/files rather than displaying cover boxes. For my documentaries folder that may be the easiest thing to do.

Thanks for any help.

[wenzelja]

Per the Jellyfin naming convention, you should structure as below. Since these may be one or two-off documentaries with no recurring season episodes, you should probably dump them into a Season 00 folder

Shows
├── Series Name A (2010)
│ ├── Season 00
│ │ ├── Some Special.mkv
│ │ ├── Series Name A S00E01.mkv
│ │ └── Series Name A S00E02.mkv