I have a rather large library of movies gathered over the years (all entirely legally I assure you officer). I’m in the process of setting up a Jellyfin server so I can stream them on the go.

Currently it’s just one folder full of individual files but Jellyfin wants each movie within it’s own folder.

Is there a command, or set of commands, that would do this all in one go? ie iterate my way through a folder, create a new folder with the same name as a file, move that file into this new folder and repeat a few hundred times.

I am using Cachy OS (arch) and have Dolphin and yazi as file managers if that helps. I guess a bash script would be the best way to achieve this but my skills are quite rusty.

  • Winning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    21 days ago

    It does? I don’t do that with my jellyfin library. Are your file names ok? I just have 27 folders #A-Z and sort by first letter, ignoring A/The but keeping it in place in the filename. Works great

    I know the file manager Double Commander has a built in multi renamer that would be able to do this if you still want to.

    • Denjin@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      The wiki advises a certain naming convention and folder structure (as linked by another user) and it’s a useful exercise in giving all my media a consistent structure as managing it personally has become a bit of a nightmare.

      • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        21 days ago

        This isn’t strictly necessary. My movies library is a mix of both loose files and folders and works just fine.

        • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          51·
          21 days ago

          As your library grows, or becomes more complex, or contains anything that’s difficult to differentiate, Jellyfin will struggle to properly identify.

          With well-named folders (release date, imdbid), my Jellyfin server still has issues where it will mis-identify some things that arent mainstream. Old movies are specifically problematic, as are rare titles that have any similarity to something more popular.

          Using the folder naming structure reduced mis-identification tremendously.

          • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
            21·
            19 days ago

            Well, yes, but you can get exactly the same result by having well-named files as well. Having them well-named in general makes identification more reliable, regardless of whether it’s the full path or just the filename.

            • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              1·
              18 days ago

              No, you can’t.

              With my 500 movies and several hundred TV series, that does not work.

              Jellyfin mis-identifies a significant portion of it doing this.

              Only by using the named folders (with year and imdbid) does it get 90% right.

              And I’ve had this across 5 Jellyfin servers in the last year - I’ve done a LOT of testing.