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Why isn't there something like musicbrainz? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by nix98@lemmy.world to c/homevideo@feddit.uk

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With streaming enshittification, I have gone back to purchasing blu-rays and dvds, ripping them, and putting them on my jellyfin server.

Why isn't there a service like musicbrainz but for video discs? This would be especially helpful for TV shows, where the order of the episodes is inconsistent on disc, and I typically have to manually go through each episode to make sure it is named correctly.

But even for movies where you have multiple versions (theatrical vs extended cut) or extras, it is a huge pain to have to go through each extracted file and figure out what it is.

How does every one else deal with this?

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[–] gwheel@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I usually check the length of each episode with the disc open in VLC and find the title with a matching length in MakeMKV, so I can set the names before extracting. Jellyfin supports naming episode files 'S01E01 Episode Name' which makes it easy to track what the file really is in case the db ordering turns out to be different. For nonserialized shows where order mismatches are likely I'll check with TVDB as I'm going through the episodes on the disc.