I’ve been using a lot of torrents for my jellyfin server and my current process is the rename the files to something similar to whats found in the jellyfin documentation around naming and had a couple questions.

Currently, almost all the torrents i find default to something similar to this:

LinuxISO.DIRECTOR’S.CUT.1080p.10bit.BluRay.6CH.x265.HEVC-PSA

I usually change the name in the in the qBitTorrent client before downloading to something like LinuxISO.HEVC-PSA but was wondering if there was a way to avoid having to do the renamings. Its not really that tedious but its more so If im wanting to seed files again later, I would need the file names to match exactly. What I’ve found in my search is software like sonarr and radar could possibly create links? I’m not very familiar with what that does exactly but I was also wondering if its possible to have Jellyfin read the name via a sub folder such as Movies/LinusISO/ or from metadata.

Anyone else know the least tedious workaround for this? Can Jellyfin actually just read the original file naming?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    Jellyfin should be able to match the original filename just fine.

    You could use radarr to handle renaming if you wanted to, but it’s not necessary.

    • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Second the suggestion for *Arr here! It’s clever enough to rename to exactly what jellyfin wants as well as in place hardlinks if you are Linux, so that the original names persist in qbit while jellyfin sees the good stuff.

      There’s other benefits like tracking quality you have on disk for if you are wanting something better down the line, but allowing it to handle naming and sorting is a huge life saver.

    • JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I will definitely give it a retry then. I mentioned in another comment that I could’ve sworn it didn’t when I first started and that’s why I started renaming, but I’ll try it again. Thanks!

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        I did the same as you at first TBH, but quickly found that as long as I dumped the files in generally the correct folder structure, Jellyfin would figure it out. And for the few it doesn’t, you can manually identify within the webUI as others have pointed out.

        I also stressed a bit about shows, but have found that

        /Show (YEAR)/Season 1/whatever garbage naming convention the torrent uses

        generally gets picked up with no problems, even if there is an extra folder level beyond “Season 1”.