I am not a very heavy user of Jellyfin, there are weeks when I not add any new movie or series to my server.
However recently, and I mean the past 2-3 months for that, it feels like Jellyfin is getting worse at correctly recognizing media, especially movies as such.
Not sure I can give much examples here, as I also didn’t write down which movies caused issues. But I make sure the files are named as outlined in the documentation, with “title (year).extension”, I have not added any media IDs to filenames yet because well, it used to work really nicely.
The mismatched movies don’t really follow any pattern, they usually do not even include parts of the original title or year defined in the filename.
One thing I changed recently, but I am sure the issues started well before that, is that I have movies in an additional subfolder to sort for the starting letter, in order to unclutter my folders. E.g. before it went into /movies, now it would go into /movies/a if the name starts with a. I could try next time moving the file to the main folder and test if that works better, but I doubt it.
Any suggestions or is it just getting worse? When I use the identify option I can always find the correct movie, and with the frequency I add movies it is really just a small annoyance, but still…
Check your plugins and your library preferences. Maybe the 10.11 update changed something in your setup.
In your movie media library make sure that “the movie db” is the top Metadata service. I once had another service at the top after an update and it made things strange.
I’ll have a look at that, thanks!
It could be that your files names are too short. I assume that you will get better results with more information in the file name.
Are you using Radarr/Sonarr by any chance? They can rename your media collection automatically for Jellyfin to recognize it perfectly. I recommend you follow Trash Guide’s recommended naming.
https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/Radarr-recommended-naming-scheme/#jellyfin-tmdb
Then your file names are something like:
{Movie CleanTitle} {(Release Year)} [tmdbid-{TmdbId}] - {{Edition Tags}} {[MediaInfo 3D]}{[Custom Formats]}{[Quality Full]}{[Mediainfo AudioCodec}{ Mediainfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}{[Mediainfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}
Thanks, I know about these but haven’t even thought about setting these up since I don’t torrent. Or are they usable without connecting it to torrenting?
To be fair, adding a movie per week is ok with the identify option. But I don’t understand how that works more reliably than the automatic detection. I mean the movies it misidentifies are not even in the manual identify selection when I supply the same info, e.g. name and date.
Yes, you can use them without torrenting. They are basically software to organise your media.
You said you added folders with the starting letters. In these folders, do you still have one subfolder per movie? According to Jellyfin documentation each movie should have their own subfolder. Maybe this improves the detection?
Oh, that detail I missed. Thanks! No, I have relied always just on file names for that. Bit clunky having a folder each, I will see if I go through with that or not, otherwise I will stop complaining about the issue…
