New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.11.6

[MarcoCoreDuo]

The watched state fix is mostly working but has some inconsistencies.

This occurs when a film is renamed and the update is processed automatically by jellyfin.

When browsing/ searching the library the item is correctly indicated as watched (blue/ white tick in corner and red tick on hover).

However, when viewing the film itself it is indicated as unwatched (white tick instead of red).

A manual library scan fixes it.

Hey, thanks for reporting this. I've fixed it in this PR.

[jellykrabbypatty]

Any idea when they're going to fix home videos/photos? I can access the first directory but when there is a sub-directory, it takes a million years to actually open. It's useless in it's current state. Everything else works well enough.

[BasJensen]

I mainly use Jellyfin for my music and there is one thing that have not worked in the 10.11.xx version. That is when I manually add persons to an album. They are showing but after a music library scan the manually added persons are gone.
Thank to the team for this great software

[ototos]

Still having problems with TV series and symlinks on Windows.
Please fix this issue… movies work, but TV series don’t. The series appears, but the episodes do not show up in the seasons.
Please fix it. I’ve been asking for a solution for three versions now, and considering that with each version I have to wait two weeks, it’s frustrating to have a server that’s stopped and unused until you fix this problem.

[pavichokche]

Still having problems with TV series and symlinks on Windows.
Please fix this issue… movies work, but TV series don’t. The series appears, but the episodes do not show up in the seasons.
Please fix it. I’ve been asking for a solution for three versions now, and considering that with each version I have to wait two weeks, it’s frustrating to have a server that’s stopped and unused until you fix this problem.

I've been using libraries that contain TV shows that are symlinks from another library and that works just fine in 10.11. Even yesterday I added a new series to Folder A (only source for Library A) and added a symlink to that series' folder to Folder B (only source for Library B) and the TV show got properly added to both libraries A and B without issue.

[ototos]

Still having problems with TV series and symlinks on Windows.
Please fix this issue… movies work, but TV series don’t. The series appears, but the episodes do not show up in the seasons.
Please fix it. I’ve been asking for a solution for three versions now, and considering that with each version I have to wait two weeks, it’s frustrating to have a server that’s stopped and unused until you fix this problem.

I've been using libraries that contain TV shows that are symlinks from another library and that works just fine in 10.11. Even yesterday I added a new series to Folder A (only source for Library A) and added a symlink to that series' folder to Folder B (only source for Library B) and the TV show got properly added to both libraries A and B without issue.

It doesn’t work for me; movies work correctly.
I have the content on several external drives (G:, F:, K:, etc.).
I create all the symlinks, correctly renamed, in

C:\Media\TV Series\Series Name (year)\Season 1\Series Name - s01e01 title.mkv
and it still doesn’t work.

I do the same for movies and they work perfectly; only TV series don’t find the EPISODES.
The TV series appears, the season appears, but inside the episodes it’s empty there’s nothing there!

On the competing software, instead, Emby recognizes everything perfectly :-(

[JF2025]

I mainly use Jellyfin for my music and there is one thing that have not worked in the 10.11.xx version. That is when I manually add persons to an album. They are showing but after a music library scan the manually added persons are gone.

Are you adding the "persons" to the album using file meta tagging? The best way to add artists and album artists (they have different purposes in the app) is to add them to the music file's Artists and Album Artists tags. If more than one, separate them with a delimiter you have set up. By default, I think delimiters include the semi-colon ( ; ) in Jellyfin, so I use that. It's unlikely to appear in an artist or band name.

So tag the file with "Artist 1; Artist 2; Artist 3" where there are three performing artists. You will find the music for each artist in a Jellyfin search after a scan. Putting one or more in the Album Artists tag will also ensure it shows up in those artist's discography pages. You can also be certain that your artist data then travels with your files, regardless of what server or player you are using in the future. It's not just in a Jellyfin database.

Maybe you have no tags but you have scans set to get new information from an external provider? That may overwrite entries made in Jellyfin. I notice that Musicbrainz, etc. can overwrite details or add IDs, so I switch that off for some tags.

(I use Yate for meta tagging. It has a lot of power once you learn some of the additional features in it.)

[Malexa5730]

If anyone braves this with a large home videos and photos library please feed back here how it works. After taking well over 18 hours to rescan in my library after downgrading from 10.11.5 to 10.10.7 to get this working again I’m not in a great hurry to experiment again until there’s some assurance it’s fit for purpose again

When I upgraded to 10.11.5 from 10.10.7  it was a nightmare, but going to 10.11.6 was a breeze.  I have 3000 1080 movies, 1000 4k movies, 670 TV Series woth over 55,000 episodes, and over 100,000 songs.

[jellynoob1994]

can confirm the lower mem usage and faster loading

never had issues with the updates so far...

but ive fresh installed 10.11x i didnt "upgrade"

so good job guys love it and keep it going

[pavichokche]

It doesn’t work for me; movies work correctly.
I have the content on several external drives (G:, F:, K:, etc.).
I create all the symlinks, correctly renamed, in

C:\Media\TV Series\Series Name (year)\Season 1\Series Name - s01e01 title.mkv
and it still doesn’t work.

I do the same for movies and they work perfectly; only TV series don’t find the EPISODES.
The TV series appears, the season appears, but inside the episodes it’s empty there’s nothing there!

On the competing software, instead, Emby recognizes everything perfectly :-(

Wait, how many symlinks are you creating? I just right click the series directory directory (in your case 'Series name (year)') pick link source (I use the Link Shell Extension) and then Drop As symbolic link in the destination directory (for a user's custom Library), which in my case is usually another folder on the same drive. Now, symlinks DO work fine across drives in Windows so that shouldn't be an issue.

What are you doing in comparison, hopefully not making symlinks for each episode one by one?