Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

As someone who meticulously organises media... this was not a problem for either Plex or Jellyfin.

The one thing that gets both of them fucked up for some reason is Ghost Stories, even with the TVDB tag, which should make it a non-issue. Still, it's easy to fix, on both platforms.

My media looks like this:

Movies: [decade][Title as it appears on TVDB] ([Year]) ([Special things like Directors Cut or whatever]) ([Resolution]).mkv

Shows (including anime): [Show Title][Show Title] S[season]E[episode] [Episode title].mkv

Music: [Artist]([Year]) [Album title][Track Number] [Track title].m4a

Oh, another issue you will run into, with shows, is "fan ordering." A good one for this is Sword Art Online. Some very vocal fans hate that there's a fourth season. They don't actually hate the content of the fourth season, they just think it should be combined with the third season for whatever dumb ass reason people on the Internet get incensed about stupid shit. They tried to plead their case on the TVDB forums and got shot down. So if you go by their order, the latter half of the episodes won't be named and won't have descriptions. Then, whenever the fifth season comes out, if you try to call it the fourth season, it'll get the titles and descriptions of the actual fourth season that's out now. So you can't do that.

If you're having issues with TV shows, get an app called Rename My TV Series. It's on Windows, it's on Mac, and it's on Linux. And it's free. Or you could pirate FileBot, I guess. Or pay for it. I'm not your dad. But I'll use free software over warez any day, as long as it does what I need. Why pirate when the free version does just as good? Just like Plex and Jellyfin, RMTVS uses TVDB, so you know your filenames will comply with your media server. And, if you're on Plex (not sure about Jellyfin on this specific one), you can rename the seasons, so you could call Season 4 "Season 3, Part II" and everything will still work. However, I named my SAO seasons "Sword Art Online," "Sword Art Online II", "Sword Art Online: Alicization," and "Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld." It looks really cool, since that anime doesn't use seasons, each season actually has a slightly different name for the show. (It's probably, if we're being that nit picky, several shows in one franchise, but that's not how TVDB wants it, and Plex won't let you do it that way, either.)

I used to have VLC as my media server (easier to setup than Plex or Jellyfin)

I have gotten pretty good at understanding what jellyfin wants from me. usually just english movie title (release year), and for tv series series title (release year) / season 1 / s1e1, s1e2, etc. be sure to check thetvdb ordering.

some shows have multiple orders, and jellyfin seems to randomly decide one fits better than another. had that recently with pokemon, which doesn't have a fully mapped tvdb order at all. still managed to finagle it somehow, and now I've got literally 1337 episodes (not everything but also not nothing. I'm happy with it) sorted.

50 upvotes and yet half the comments here are "it worked for me OP must be using it wrong" and the other half are "Using Plex is worse than bombing Palestinian children "

Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.

Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.

cool thing is Jellyfin is free and you can switch right now

Lol Plex.

Yams.media

Have you heard of our load and savior "Automatically renaming and organizing with sonarr and using symlinks to preserve the naming of the torrent downloads so you can seed without using twice as much storage"?

Sonarr makes a symlink from the torrent download folder to a new folder where it renames and reorganizes the file, but the pointer for that file and the file in the downloads folder point to the same file on your hdd so.you have two copies with different names but only one "file". Now you have a perfectly organized media folder to feed into Plex while all of those files also live in your completed downloads folder with the original naming conventions. And it's all automagic.

Rename things. Plex is very good at detecting stuff. The extra information in torrent filenames messes with it.

My entire library is pirated, never had any issues apart from when ab fab was named as some Arabic horse show

What isn’t working? It’s usually pretty flawless for me as long as it’s not anime and that’s what shoko is for

I have zero issues. You can change the metadata of your obscure files if plex can't pull the metadata on it's own. Really no issues importing my 24 TB's of media.