Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan

[JANONYMOUS]

It took me a while to find the culprit but it seems that movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash when attempting a full library scan.

In my case it was a movie with two versions: Director's Cut.mkv and Extended Version.mkv.

After removing the movie folder from the library the scan finished successfully.

Is anyone able to reproduce this?

Thanks.

[TheDreadPirate]

Many many people have multiple versions of a movie. Including me.

Can you provide the file folder and file names of these movies and what kind of storage they were one? Local disk or network share?

[JANONYMOUS]

Yeah I imagine, haha.  Maybe just not with the same setup and movie.  I should have been clearer on that.

I set up Jellyfin only recently so it's the only multi-version movie I have uploaded so far, hence no other movie to compare with.

The movie in question is Dances With Wolves, and this is the folder/file structure on a local HD:

• Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348]
  

• Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348] - Director's Cut.mkv
  
• Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348] - Extended Version.mkv
  

The extended version was merged from two discs but I have others that don't cause any issues so I doubt it has anything to do with that.

Let me know what else you need.

Thanks.

[TheDreadPirate]

Put "1990" in parenthesis instead of square brackets.

[JANONYMOUS]

Are you certain that this will fix it or is it just for testing? Because all my movies use square brackets. My entire media collection for that matter.

[TheDreadPirate]

For testing. But if all your movies are named like that had me rethink it a bit. It would cause Jellyfin to straight up hang.

Are the files themselves corrupt? What happens when you run ffprobe on the files?

[JANONYMOUS]

Now it had me rethink the issue with scanning the music library. I hope it's not the square brackets causing it.

Parenthesis are part of a title while square brackets are for additional information--and the year isn't part of the title. That's how I've been using them since forever.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

From my understanding, parenthesis are used for the year to help Jellyfin ID the file on a metadata site.

Square brackets are usually ignored unless they follow some things like the ID from a metadata provider.

An example would be this: "Spider-Man (2002) [tmdbid-557].mkv"

[JANONYMOUS]

Yeah I read that in the docs but I figured that title plus ID should suffice. I really prefer not to mix parenthesis with square brackets and change my entire concept for that.