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.

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      18 hours 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
        41·
        17 hours 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.