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Is there software that tracks movies and TV shows I've watched and lets me manually add them to my library?

I use Jellyfin, but it lacks this feature. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to create placeholders for shows or seasons I've watched elsewhere, without having to download or create empty MP4 files.

It would be even better if this software integrates with Jellyfin.

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[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ticket Booth. Avaible on Linux. https://github.com/aleiepure/ticketbooth

Automatically fetch data from tmdb. Tag movies / show watched or not. Even episode by episode. I use it and I'm very pleased.

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

Thank you

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

Thank you. This is helpful

[–] El_Quentinator@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been using watcharr for this purpose. It's fairly simple but fits my needs perfectly (I also really like the ability to change the rating system to be 0-100). It also has a rudimentary import from jellyfin (needs a few clicks, no builtin scheduled imports unfortunately).

Fair warning the last update was 5 months ago but I'm not personally missing anything apart from jellyfin scheduled imports.

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

Thank you

[–] speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tellico is a general collection database for many things (books, movies, shows) and keeps track of many kinds of status (watched, borrowed etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Could you share a guide

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Curious on the use case here. How do you make use of this information specifically from Jellyfin?

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Writing reviews for movies and have them displayed in jellyfin even the movie is not downloaded

[–] GentleWay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GentleWay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I tried that too. The things I like about Yamtrack is that it does books too. It also does imports well and integrates with Jellyfin and Plex

[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have all my watched shows at myepisodes. Maybe need to move to a service that i can connect to jellyfin and more.

[–] superpowersurfer@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The best one I know of is JustWatch. Its an app you can install on your Phone or on your Smart TV. It tracks TV & Movies you have or haven't watched and you can simply ✅ them off as you watch them. There's a free version and a paid version. You can mark off entire season's in one go if you've seen them instead of episode by episode. It's available on the Google Apps or iPhone store

[–] GentleWay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I used to use JustWatch before self hosting. They don’t make it easy to get you data out of their system (last time I tried)

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

jellyfin has a rudumentary tracking plugin, i however use yamtrack which can get activity directly from jellyfin

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does Tautulli work with jellyfin?

[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Jellyfin, but I also track them with an app on my phone called Next Episode, there's another I use called TV Time. I haven't decided which I like more.

I can see how long until a new episode airs, what day, it gives a description and title, and I can click watched when I have seen it.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interested in this too. I’ve been using the app TV Time for years now, but I’m not married to it. It works. Would be nice to have something that integrated into my self hosted apps tho, that isn’t Trakt cause I’m not paying for that.

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Appreciated, thanks!