Jellyfin at home · Part 2
A media library Jellyfin understands: folders, names and metadata
by Jan Holbo RasmussenIn part 1 Jellyfin got its first library. This part is about what to do before you copy the next one in: how to name folders and files so Jellyfin recognises them the first time.
Why naming matters
Jellyfin does not look inside a film to find out what it is. It reads the folder name and the file name, looks that up with a metadata provider, and fetches the title, the poster and the description. A good name gives the right film. A bad one gives the wrong film, a remake from another decade, or nothing.
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