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Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users (selfh.st)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

jellyfin is great, IF you have an organized collection. If your collection is like mine, spread across 3 drives that have been used for the last 15+ yrs, and not organized into folders for each show...you're gonna have a bad time. i found:

  • jellyfin didn't like when files used periods instead of spaces.
  • jellyfin assumed that a year in the filename was the year the content was released and ignored using that year to search the title(i.e. if content has a year in it's title jellyfin was ignoring that year).
  • jellyfin seemed to choose random old shows instead of the obvious show that it should have been.
  • jellyfin didn't seem to have an option to change what show a file was a part of, i had to move it into a folder of the show's name.
  • jellyfin has issues with text files in the folders that have filenames that are urls(i.e. www.torrentsitehere.com-downloads.galore.txt would somehow tell jellyfin to go look at that url in the filename for info about the file, but of course it didn't even parse the url out of the filename correctly and tried going to the full filename as the url and erroring out). i only found this out as it also wasn't deleting the content that had these files in them as it was somehow trying to delete that url from the filename.
  • jellyfin doesn't like when content has it's own NFO file to talk about where the content came from, or the person who claimed to release it first(since the NFO file is in this case is just a text file showing off some ASCII 'art' and edgy text, jellyfin isn't able to parse the file)

using jellyfin did help me realize i didn't need half the stuff i had, and helped me see that i wasn't going to watch most of that again. It is open source, but that only means you can see the code and what goes into it, it doesn't instantly make it better.

in the end i'm probly going to run both, since i primarly watch via the plex app on my xbox and the jellyfin xbox support is abysmal, it isn't made for controller at all and it literally just a webpage that you move the cursor(mouse pointer) around with the left stick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago
  • jellyfin didn't like when files used periods instead of spaces.

At least that can't be the problem since my entire library (except music) uses periods instead of spaces.

Then again, I spent quite some time organizing my library when I first started using Radarr and Sonarr. Ever since those manage my library I had no issues in Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

There are great apps that provides a way of organizing such libraries which you should do to have stuff organized regardless of problems with JF. They're called Sonarr for tv shows and Radarr for movies, they also provide other features, but their media organization is great