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Bulk move files into new folders? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by Denjin@feddit.uk to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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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.

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[–] Winning@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.uk 4 points 3 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.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.cafe 1 points 5 hours 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.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Protip: find the tvdb/omdb ID and stick it in the name if having issues still (see docs)