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?

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.ee 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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".

[–] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Awesome, that was my next topic to look at was shows. Thanks for clarifying!

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