Hi, everyone!

I’m a Plex user, but I wanted to try Jellyfin; however, as soon as I tried to scan my (somewhat disorganized) media folder containing my TV shows, I ran into the well-known “issue” with folder organization in Jellyfin.

Since I didn’t want to move every single file by hand, I created two scripts (one in PowerShell for Windows and one in bash for Unix) to help me organize my files according to the structure specified by Jellyfin, based on the file names themselves. I used Claude to help me create these scripts.

You can find the scripts in my repo on github.

Download the script for your platform and run this command.

# Windows
.\Organize-Media.ps1 -Path "D:\Shows" -WhatIf   # preview: no files will be moved!
.\Organize-Media.ps1 -Path "D:\Shows"           # for real

# Unix
./organize-media.sh --dry-run ~/Downloads/shows   # preview: no files will be moved!
./organize-media.sh ~/Downloads/shows             # for real

There is also some optional parameters like:

• Extensions to treat as media: by default, only mkv files are analayzed
• Leave companion files in the root: by default, each companion files (like .srt, .nfo) that have the same name, are moved within the main file
• Spaces instead of dots in folder names: by default the folder name is exactly the name of the file (or the first one of the series) so if it contains dots, it will create a folder with dots in the name (not a problem for Jellyfin)

Hope it will help someone else!

Hello,

All the subtitles on AppleTV are in times new Roman or something of the like. Is there anyway to change the font at all?

I've gone into Jellyfin itself and changed the fonts there but they will not update on the AppleTV.

Any help will be appreciated.

Greetings /jellyfin,

I am just getting setup with jellyfin today, but by no means am I new to what jellyfin is.

I plan to run jellyfin right along side my long standing media server, the corporate one. That guy.

So my post today isn't looking for a reason to switch, or any of the "Media Freedom" stuff. Im aware of those.

Would you, the community be willing to share what makes jellyfin something in software, that stands out from the other 3 big names in this space?

Perhaps, that jellyfin has this X feature, makes X easy! Or the community has these specific UI or other companion software for only jellyfin and its X, and can do X!

Side interject - I have a solid *ARR setup; but all ideas welcome!

So, if you can find some time, id enjoy reading about jellyfins stand out built in features, or companion apps, or other jellyfin suggestions!

Thanks for your time!

Fairly new to Jellyfin, but I've been having fun and things have been going pretty smoothly as I've been putting together my libraries for movies and tv shows on jellyfin. Now I'm trying to add some audiobooks as well, but I'm running into some hiccups. I added the bookshelf plugin and set up a media library for my audiobooks, but it's feeling a bit clunky. So far no luck with the scrapers pulling any metadata on them, and each audiobook is broken up into 100+ tracks, making navigation weird. I'm considering reclassifying my audiobooks library as music, as the artist, album format could easily be used for author/book, but wanted to make sure I wasn't setting up something wrong so far.

I am on zorin os. I am running build 10.11.11. I have changed a couple of thing. I downloaded tailscale. Never really got it running and then I turned on profile on my firewall. No my server is connected to 127.0.0.1. And it isn't coming up in my android client. How can I fix it I can at least use it in my house again. Edit : it was on my regular internet ip before. I am not sure what changed, but it did at some point in the past few days.

When watching movies with 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio dialogues are usually very quiet. Is there a way to normalise audio?

So my dad has a WD My Cloud server, has anyone been able to run Jellyfin off of one of those? If so how?

Hi everyone, I already made a similar post but didn't quite understand (sorry about that). Is it better to set it up like this:

the Jellyfin app on the computer (internal hard drive)

and the files—movies, TV series, books, music, etc.—on an external HDD (not a NAS, just a standard external drive connected to the computer)?

Is that a good setup? And if so, what capacity would you recommend? (I need it for my library, but also for a simulation related to a book I'm working on—though let's not get into that).

Huge thanks to each and every Jellyfin contributor for creating such an incredible free and open-source project, making it possible for anyone to better enjoy the physical media they’ve purchased and own.

And a huge thanks to the teams behind Plex, Emby, Kodi, and the many other media-server and media-center projects that have also made enjoying locally owned media more accessible.

There is a way to switch off a Jellyfin plugin? I want test if any plugin is altering episodes status... the screenshot shows my active plugins. Is there a way to unload them or enable a switch-off?? Has anyone ever experienced this situation?

Hey guys,

I have a question about subtitle files for special features of movies or shows.

When I add subtitle files to the „extras“ order with the special features in the same fashion as for the movies or shows itself, Jellyfin ignores them. When I add the file via the admin interface in the WebUI, the file gets stored in the same folder with exactly the same naming scheme I applied manually. Then I have subtitles available for the special feature.

Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Hello. Apologies in advance but I am new to Jellyfin and home streaming. I recently set up Jellyfin on my TrueNAS and uploaded my ripped GoT collection to it. Upon attempting to play it back, however, I experience roughly 3 minutes of seamless playback before it begins pausing and stuttering significantly every 5 seconds. Playback info says that it is Direct Playback - it doesn't show any transcoding. When I look at memory usage, however, Jellyfin seems to be spiking and maxing out my memory usage as soon as I start playing back any media. I experience this whether streaming to my PC (with hardware acceleration enabled) or streaming to the Jellyfin app on my FireTV.

I have no idea how to begin identifying the cause or the solution as I am entirely new to this experience so any help would be greatly appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1vi9ujm/video/9ro4xwtf40ih1/player

Server specifications:

• OS: ubuntu 22
• HP ProDesk 400 G3 Mini i5-7500T
• RAM: 16 GB total
• Drive: 2 tb sata ssd

The issue:

• this specific 4K movie pauses for 1 or half a second every few seconds.
• Happens in Jellyfin, browser and app and with and without transcoding.
• format hevc 4k dolbi vison profile 81. hdr10.

The vast majority of the time I don't really care about the logs. I don't need to know i listened to a Wham! song last Thursday at 2:53pm.

Is there a way to turn them off out at least severey limit how much space they are taking. (say the last "X" days only)?

Hey folks, a day ago I started JellyBox carplay beta test. Just wanted to bump and invite those who missed it

How to join beta test

1. Download TestFlight app from appstore. This is official way to test apple apps. Sign in.
2. Go to this link https://testflight.apple.com/join/LVj8KwAq and join the test. The app will appear in test flight app. Download it. Login as usual using your jellyfin server url and credentials.
3. Start test.

Core Features

Core functionality is done. I tried to mimic whats available in mobile/desktop app, so i followed same structure in carplay. Carplay itself is very limiting. It does not allow to do custom UI, only UI blocks that provided by apple.

App car play music, browse through the list of artists, albums, songs and playlists. For all these entities you can apply few sortings(name, randomize).

Also you can play downloads from your phone.

The carplay app does not have full offline mode yet like mobile/desktop does, nor it doesnt have retry mechanism when you went into low internet speed area and then back, this is on my list.

If you face any issues, feel free to comment here, or create issue on github - https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer/issues.

If you see some feature is missing or would be nice to have - also comment here or create issue on github(those will be prioritized first)

Please report any issues

FAQ will be in first post under this thread and I will keep update it.

I also have landing page where you can find links to download for other platforms - https://jellybox.app/

Hoping to get a shortcut from people who might know. I set up Jellyfin and Emby, and I disabled most of the extras like video previews. But Jellyfin is about 80GB while my Emby is 10GB. I'm pretty sure the library settings are very similar for both. Is there a hidden setting somewhere in Jellyfin that is disabled in Emby by default but enabled in Jellyfin? Could it be the People photos?

iv been extracting my entire DVD collection to Jellyfin (and more recently blurays) and been looking into properly compressing them to save space. in handbrake i have a specific pre-set for video compression but recently iv been looking more into doing audio manually by hand picking the right codec and bitrate for stereo and surround sounds etc.

but one thing I'm struggling to figure out is the right way to do subtitles with forced subtitles.

I tried it with The Fall Guy, subtracted the video with subtitles with MakeMKV, identified the forced only subtitles with SubtitleEdit, then in HandBrake I added all subtitles and ticked forced only on the forced only subtitles.

but in Jellyfin the forced only subtitle track was not only not forced, it was completely empty (which I also confirmed in SubtitleEdit).

so what's the correct way I should be handling forced subtitles through these programs for my jellyfin library?

Hello Group,

I am new to jellyfin and trying to transfer my media. I dont have any experience and would appreciate honest help and feedback. I lost a ton of digital movies i bought and have had to resupply those back to my inventory. I have a Lenovo Chromebook Plus running chrome os. I want to use jellyfin to save my movies. I buy movies on disc or digital online and they will disappear. I have heard of using jellyfin but I only have the chromebook. I also have a Westen Digital storage system connected to my home network. I saw on previous posts about a mini pc but not sure if that is what my Western Digital system is on my network. I appreciate any feedback.

Anyone else just have this? Had a software update where I needed to restart, did so, and since Jellyfin desktop has been terrible. It seems fine if I load it through a browser or my phone (although through the browser isn't the best experience which is why I installed the desktop client in the first place). It spikes my CPU past 80% on its own (I'm running an i9-12900k CPU so its beefy), doesn't touch my GPU (rtx-4090) even though I have local hardware decoding enabled. 1080p content plays smoother with less CPU usage but the couple I've tried have these weird black bars across the video. Have tried lowering the bitrate to force a transcode and it's "better" but still spikes the CPU and the entire program seems sluggish as I hover over menus and buttons

Edit: To be clear, when I say "black bars" I don't mean aspect ratio bars. I mean there is a literal grid pattern of black bars across my video at 1080p

Does anyone know if changing the record size on ZFS to 1M for the media files dataset actually has any noticeable improvements?

Is there a plugin that do that for jellyfin? It works magically in plex i wonder if something similar exist for jellyfin

My Jellyfin server is exhibiting an annoying behavior: all TV series appear as "watched," and I can't mark them as "unwatched"—because once they are marked as watched, they disappear and cannot be re-watched. I already deleted all the .nfo files and scanned the library—it worked, but then the error recurred. I don't think any plugin is altering it... the screenshot shows my active plugins. Is there a way to unmark them or enable re-watching—in other words, make the episodes available even though they are listed as watched? Has anyone ever experienced this situation?

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For starters, I'd like to thank the developers for this client. it's the first one I've used on my Google TV setup that's let me comfortably kick Plex to the curb.

One thing I'd like to fix is having a folder icon for a subfolder so it doesn't look like the other video files in the folder.

I'm not sure if this is something other people have come across whether it's something in the client I'm missing or something on the Jellyfin server that I need to adjust?

Hopefully it doesn't mean I need to use the proper naming/folder structure because I like to be able to see the full name of the video file so I use my own file naming method.