The file structure it requires. It’s hard to pull off without breaking your torrents and after that it still will arbitrarily decide a file isn’t the type for the library you’re trying to import it into.
For a couple years I was getting around this by just keeping all my stuff in a single library and using the collections feature with all its options to make my own categories for standup, TV, and stolen YT videos. But today not even that lax of a setup could allow for some foreign films I wanted to add. It will just ignore movies or shows that it REALLY wants you to create an additional “other media” library for with no metadata
Difficult? I just toss mine into a file labeled movies and a file labeled TV shows. I rarely ever have to correct names or anything. What are you doing differently that is causing this?
I eventually got around to that too. Part of the issue is that I’ve got some nonstandard versions of some of the films and shows. Plex can handle some wierd things now, like if a long film is bisected into two files. But if you have a show that has episodes combined into multiple files, that version won’t work. Or if a season has a name instead of a number, it might get skipped or just haphazardly combined with another season’s episodes.
But also some of my problem files are anime and Plex doesn’t want to count OVA’s as anything so I guess I gotta look into that other service Chronographs mentioned
I’ve always used radarr and sonarr to handle renaming stuff, but it’s still a pain. I’ve run into issues where Plex ignores the naming I’ve done in sonarr and just displays raw file names. It’s a pain. Hopefully jellyfin will be a little easier when I eventually switch
I suspect that my issue is that Plex metadata assigned those shows/episodes names before I renamed them, and refused to rename/refresh for whatever reason. Usually it works without a hitch
Is that another hosting service? I told myself I was going to try Jellyfin next if I threw in the towel in this but I haven’t committed yet. I’ll look into it 👍
Yeah, jellyfin isn’t much better in that regard. I just have sonarr and radarr managing this.
Even if you don’t use them to download your media, you can still add your existing media and import everything, and have them organise it automatically. You pretty much only have to search for and add every show/movie you have manually, iirc.
What isn’t working? It’s usually pretty flawless for me as long as it’s not anime and that’s what shoko is for
The file structure it requires. It’s hard to pull off without breaking your torrents and after that it still will arbitrarily decide a file isn’t the type for the library you’re trying to import it into.
For a couple years I was getting around this by just keeping all my stuff in a single library and using the collections feature with all its options to make my own categories for standup, TV, and stolen YT videos. But today not even that lax of a setup could allow for some foreign films I wanted to add. It will just ignore movies or shows that it REALLY wants you to create an additional “other media” library for with no metadata
You could use hardlinks to link your files to your media library structure without touching the originally torrented files at all.
That’s what got me looking at Sonarr and Radarr. I’m not sure if I’d rather do that or switch to a different service
I doubt any other service will have an easier time with matching media.
Difficult? I just toss mine into a file labeled movies and a file labeled TV shows. I rarely ever have to correct names or anything. What are you doing differently that is causing this?
I eventually got around to that too. Part of the issue is that I’ve got some nonstandard versions of some of the films and shows. Plex can handle some wierd things now, like if a long film is bisected into two files. But if you have a show that has episodes combined into multiple files, that version won’t work. Or if a season has a name instead of a number, it might get skipped or just haphazardly combined with another season’s episodes.
But also some of my problem files are anime and Plex doesn’t want to count OVA’s as anything so I guess I gotta look into that other service Chronographs mentioned
I’ve always used radarr and sonarr to handle renaming stuff, but it’s still a pain. I’ve run into issues where Plex ignores the naming I’ve done in sonarr and just displays raw file names. It’s a pain. Hopefully jellyfin will be a little easier when I eventually switch
Strange I’ve never had an issue since setting up sonarr and radar a few years ago, I followed the trash guides and just copy pasted the naming scheme
I suspect that my issue is that Plex metadata assigned those shows/episodes names before I renamed them, and refused to rename/refresh for whatever reason. Usually it works without a hitch
Radarr seemed pretty clever but yeah those are a lot of work
Definitely not more work than symlinking everything by hand
Use emby bro, it doesn’t force a fascist folder hierchy on you.
Bro plex uses virtually the same folder structure as Emby…
Is that another hosting service? I told myself I was going to try Jellyfin next if I threw in the towel in this but I haven’t committed yet. I’ll look into it 👍
Jellyfin is based on emby. Jellyfin is great btw
But you MUST follow the folder structure rules or it won’t know what you have.
Yeah, jellyfin isn’t much better in that regard. I just have sonarr and radarr managing this.
Even if you don’t use them to download your media, you can still add your existing media and import everything, and have them organise it automatically. You pretty much only have to search for and add every show/movie you have manually, iirc.
Nice, alright I’ll add that to my options