I found an old external hdd with a bunch of unformatted media and wanted to import to my library quickly… Jellyfin does metadata collection pretty well (as of the most recent version, old versions were pretty bad at it) but requires a specific naming convention, e.g. Film Title (1900) - so, during some down time I wrote a quick little utility program in Go (so you can compile it regardless of platform) and a little registry script to add it to the right click menu if using windows.
For example, say you have a folder Manos.the.Hands.of.Fate.1966.1080p.REPACK.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264 containing a file 34535sdfs23sfg-some-complicated-hash-sdfgsdf.mp4, after installing this utility program you could right-click on the folder and select Rename Downloaded Media after which the folder would be renamed Manos the Hands of Fate (1966) and the contained file renamed to Manos the Hands of Fate (1966).mp4 as this is the format Jellyfin expects.
Nothing ground breaking here but wanted to share - hopefully this saves one of you a few minutes/hours of formatting!
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It’s offputting; have you ever seen a mirror?
I have a media sorting script set up. That takes stuff from my downloads folder figured out if its TV or a Movie and renames and sorts it.
Its using this python library called guessit https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit Guessit extracts info about the file from the filename. Its like magic.
Edit: Just remembered I uploaded it to github. Its not the best cause Im subpar at this kind of stuff. But here it is. https://github.com/ZeroPoke/Sorterr
Nice, pretty cool!
I don’t have any specific recommendations for a discrete tool for this, but radarr and sonarr can do this automatically if you enable it.
Yeah I messed around with both for a time but couldn’t really get into it - can’t place my finger on why either, just the whole *arr suite is not for me somehow.
They’re super straightforward though?
You set up indexers to be searched for content.
You set up downloaders that can download from the indexers.
You set up the downloads and the media folder (e.g. the series folder for Sonarr).
Then you simply add whatever content you want downloaded.
Finally you can set the renaming in a very neat templating language.
Yup, pretty easy - like I said, it’s a vibe check, no clue lol
Ugh. I was excited until I saw it’s for Windows. Doh!
It’s platform agnostic, the .reg file is a helper to make it easier to use on windows 👍
Awesome, that asks for the info. Gotta try this out later; I don’t even have a large library, but the renaming is so tedious! But clicking through to identify each file that Jellyfin didn’t automatically identify is worse…
Yup totally agreed, Jellyfin has been awesome for the most part but still needs those rough edges sanded down
i used to use ‘media elch’ before i figured out the 'arrs.
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Appreciated! I’ve been trying to get myself to get going on doing some renaming so this is a nice catalyst
Anytime!
