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!
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