Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.
Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.
As someone who meticulously organises media… this was not a problem for either Plex or Jellyfin.
The one thing that gets both of them fucked up for some reason is Ghost Stories, even with the TVDB tag, which should make it a non-issue. Still, it’s easy to fix, on both platforms.
My media looks like this:
Movies: [decade][Title as it appears on TVDB] ([Year]) ([Special things like Directors Cut or whatever]) ([Resolution]).mkv
Shows (including anime): [Show Title][Show Title] S[season]E[episode] [Episode title].mkv
Music: [Artist]([Year]) [Album title][Track Number] [Track title].m4a
Oh, another issue you will run into, with shows, is “fan ordering.” A good one for this is Sword Art Online. Some very vocal fans hate that there’s a fourth season. They don’t actually hate the content of the fourth season, they just think it should be combined with the third season for whatever dumb ass reason people on the Internet get incensed about stupid shit. They tried to plead their case on the TVDB forums and got shot down. So if you go by their order, the latter half of the episodes won’t be named and won’t have descriptions. Then, whenever the fifth season comes out, if you try to call it the fourth season, it’ll get the titles and descriptions of the actual fourth season that’s out now. So you can’t do that.
If you’re having issues with TV shows, get an app called Rename My TV Series. It’s on Windows, it’s on Mac, and it’s on Linux. And it’s free. Or you could pirate FileBot, I guess. Or pay for it. I’m not your dad. But I’ll use free software over warez any day, as long as it does what I need. Why pirate when the free version does just as good? Just like Plex and Jellyfin, RMTVS uses TVDB, so you know your filenames will comply with your media server. And, if you’re on Plex (not sure about Jellyfin on this specific one), you can rename the seasons, so you could call Season 4 “Season 3, Part II” and everything will still work. However, I named my SAO seasons “Sword Art Online,” “Sword Art Online II”, “Sword Art Online: Alicization,” and “Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld.” It looks really cool, since that anime doesn’t use seasons, each season actually has a slightly different name for the show. (It’s probably, if we’re being that nit picky, several shows in one franchise, but that’s not how TVDB wants it, and Plex won’t let you do it that way, either.)
😑 how did you know that was one of my problem files
Ghost Stories? Because it’s a known sticking point in the community.
Easily solved, too. Unmatch it and then match it (not auto match). The one you want should be one of the options.
I have zero issues. You can change the metadata of your obscure files if plex can’t pull the metadata on it’s own. Really no issues importing my 24 TB’s of media.
You can, if the file makes it into your library in the first place. You’ve never had it just ignore certain files?
I feel you on that. I also have random issues with stuff just not show up. Seems to happen with shows especially if it doesn’t like some seasons that have names that change the title of the show. Sometimes part of each season might show up marked as being in correct seasons, but missing chunks of episodes in each season. Also have it happen with movie series that I want to keep together in a folder for the series (but not be an issue for other stuff using similar series folder).
I don’t see it happen as often as I used to, but does still happen. Can sometimes force things by adding the specific movie/show season to the library as a source location.
No, not even Video_TS files. They all show up and I just fix the metadata if Plex can’t find it.
Fuck it, I’m redownloding most of my library. Going to go through these files with a comb until it likes them and if that doesn’t work I’m trying jellyfin
I couldn’t get jellyfin setup at all. Spend 3 days trying to setup docker and get my connection right, nothing worked. Hopefully they can fix those issues cause many of us have the same problem.
I wish you better luck if you don’t get plex working well.
Oh, that’s the first ill thing I’ve heard about. Noted and Thank you!
Yams.media
How’s that one for sharing with people?
The link is for a script/tool to help install your own media server. To share your media you’ll want to consider the best method of remote access for the people you’ll be sharing with, and what your internet upload speed can handle. For example if your ISP provides your connection via coax, 4k streaming would not be ideal, as upload speeds with coax tend to be 10-40mb. As for access, you can setup wireguard tunnels, use tailscale, or a reverse proxy. Those are probably the most accessible and well known, which will help when you have issues and need questions answered. As for what media server to use, I’d always recommend Jellyfin.
Wait. Will this do me any good now that I already have my Jellyfin media server up?
Probably. I’d recommend just going through the steps on their website and then following the instructions, but just omit Jellyfin from the services to setup.
My entire library is pirated, never had any issues apart from when ab fab was named as some Arabic horse show
I did have one of my mums shows get matched as some kind of giant tits hentai thing once. We both thought that was funny. and occasionally there’s multiple shows with the same name, but they are easy to fix.
overall I’ve never had any issues, most of the people who say they have trouble arent following the naming conventions and should really be running the arrs to make it easier.
I used to have VLC as my media server (easier to setup than Plex or Jellyfin)
Plex
There’s your problem. Here’s the solution: Kodi.
I have gotten pretty good at understanding what jellyfin wants from me. usually just english movie title (release year), and for tv series series title (release year) / season 1 / s1e1, s1e2, etc. be sure to check thetvdb ordering.
some shows have multiple orders, and jellyfin seems to randomly decide one fits better than another. had that recently with pokemon, which doesn’t have a fully mapped tvdb order at all. still managed to finagle it somehow, and now I’ve got literally 1337 episodes (not everything but also not nothing. I’m happy with it) sorted.
