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.
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.
Thank you for this comment - I have been content with just a torrent client and jellyfin for ages. All files are tossed into a television or movies folder across multiple drives, like MoviesDriveA and MoviesDriveB. It works but it’s a real pain sometimes and having everything just go to a simpler torrent downloads would be a great time saver.
I was amazed when I found it this was how you were supposed to do it, and also kinda mad about there being no way for me to go back and seed the thousands of torrents I had renamed to get them to play right with Plex imports. Oh well, you live and you learn. If you have any issues the sonarr subreddit has some great guides in the sticky section and fairly helpful users that should be able to get the symlink think sorted out. Noone tells you that’s how it’s supposed to be when you start, you kinda have to bump into the information when you get mad about this very problem.
Good luck! I bet you’ll be pretty happy with the drastic reduction in labor once you set it up
There’s a silver lining because for some reason qBit updated and I lost hundreds of torrents including for private trackers. So my old workflow of managing via moving torrent locations is broken anyhow. Time to just restart, get new torrents, manage them better, and try to manually reorganize files that don’t have a torrent file anymore. Thank you!!
Sonarr/radar will organize and rename the ones without torrents for you… Don’t do it manually. Just point them (sonarr/radarr) at the downloads folder as an import folder. Sonarr is for TV and radarr is for movies, if you didn’t know.
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.
You can, if the file makes it into your library in the first place. You’ve never had it just ignore certain files?
Lol Plex.
Instead of memes maybe post the issue you are having so we can help? Plex is usually pretty great at importing media if you name it correctly.
Oh. Thanks, I wasn’t actually wanting help today. I just wanted to post memes to blow off some steam
Why the fuck are you (still) using plex at all?
Not OP, but I run plex over Jellyfin as for me plex is just better. Has better clients, looks better, better features. Jellyfin isn’t always the answer. Maybe if someone releases a apple TV app that is better then meh, I will spin my jellyfin server backup .
Yea, Jellyfin is far from perfect, and it’s what I use.
It’s a bit more work than it should be, like it loves to identify stuff as Asian if it doesn’t have a perfect match, sometimes with folders properly structured with year and IMDB ID.
I’m constantly having to fix metadata or even remove a specific movie, rescan, return the movie folder, rescan, and then it sees it right.
I’ve had to blow away my entire Jellyfin database multiple times this year because it just loses it’s mind and won’t properly identify something.
It’s what I use, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but it is an incredible value, and it doesn’t phone home or any other nonsense.
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
The file structure it requires. It’s hard to pull off without breaking your torrents and after that it still will arbitrarily decide a file isn’t the type for the library you’re trying to import it into.
For a couple years I was getting around this by just keeping all my stuff in a single library and using the collections feature with all its options to make my own categories for standup, TV, and stolen YT videos. But today not even that lax of a setup could allow for some foreign films I wanted to add. It will just ignore movies or shows that it REALLY wants you to create an additional “other media” library for with no metadata
I’ve always used radarr and sonarr to handle renaming stuff, but it’s still a pain. I’ve run into issues where Plex ignores the naming I’ve done in sonarr and just displays raw file names. It’s a pain. Hopefully jellyfin will be a little easier when I eventually switch
Strange I’ve never had an issue since setting up sonarr and radar a few years ago, I followed the trash guides and just copy pasted the naming scheme
I suspect that my issue is that Plex metadata assigned those shows/episodes names before I renamed them, and refused to rename/refresh for whatever reason. Usually it works without a hitch
Radarr seemed pretty clever but yeah those are a lot of work
Definitely not more work than symlinking everything by hand
Difficult? I just toss mine into a file labeled movies and a file labeled TV shows. I rarely ever have to correct names or anything. What are you doing differently that is causing this?
I eventually got around to that too. Part of the issue is that I’ve got some nonstandard versions of some of the films and shows. Plex can handle some wierd things now, like if a long film is bisected into two files. But if you have a show that has episodes combined into multiple files, that version won’t work. Or if a season has a name instead of a number, it might get skipped or just haphazardly combined with another season’s episodes.
But also some of my problem files are anime and Plex doesn’t want to count OVA’s as anything so I guess I gotta look into that other service Chronographs mentioned
Use emby bro, it doesn’t force a fascist folder hierchy on you.
Is that another hosting service? I told myself I was going to try Jellyfin next if I threw in the towel in this but I haven’t committed yet. I’ll look into it 👍
Jellyfin is based on emby. Jellyfin is great btw
But you MUST follow the folder structure rules or it won’t know what you have.
Nice, alright I’ll add that to my options
