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?
If you rename it using your BitTorrent client, it should still seed fine.
If you’re on Linux, a better option in my opinion, is to make a symlink to your Jellyfin folder and rename the link. The torrent client will see the original filename. Jellyfin will see the new filename.
In my case, I’ll move the finished file to my Jellyfin library (since that’s what my backup software points to). I copy the original filename temporarily. I rename the original file how I like it. Then I make the symlink into the folder I’m seeding from. I then rename the link to match the original filename.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.
Second the suggestion for *Arr here! It’s clever enough to rename to exactly what jellyfin wants as well as in place hardlinks if you are Linux, so that the original names persist in qbit while jellyfin sees the good stuff.
There’s other benefits like tracking quality you have on disk for if you are wanting something better down the line, but allowing it to handle naming and sorting is a huge life saver.
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!
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”.
Awesome, that was my next topic to look at was shows. Thanks for clarifying!
Jellyfin usually picks up on the filenames for me from torrents. If not, I just click on the “Identify” button and enter the name of the media and the year if it’s ambiguous and it works that way no problem.
Didn’t know about identify. Is the in the dashboard settings for media or directly on the “watch” page that shows all media for viewing?
In the “Shows” section (or whatever media you’re identifying), that displays all of that media type, yep.
First hit the triple dot menu on the media that needs identifying.
From there you can find the “Identify” button.
It opens up a form where you can enter in Name, Year, and if you get really stuck, you can enter in a Imdb id. Then Jellyfin will pull the metadata from the internet and populate the image and name and all that stuff accurately. Works well!
That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing! Also, ATLA… Didn’t realize I was speaking with a man of class. Thank you my good sir.
No problem, happy pirating! :)
Woah woah woah sir. These are Linux ISOs. No pirating here :)
