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.
This isn’t strictly necessary. My movies library is a mix of both loose files and folders and works just fine.
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.
Protip: find the tvdb/omdb ID and stick it in the name if having issues still (see docs)