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Instead of memes maybe post the issue you are having so we can help? Plex is usually pretty great at importing media if you name it correctly.
Oh. Thanks, I wasn't actually wanting help today. I just wanted to post memes to blow off some steam
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Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.
Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.
Have you heard of our load and savior "Automatically renaming and organizing with sonarr and using symlinks to preserve the naming of the torrent downloads so you can seed without using twice as much storage"?
Sonarr makes a symlink from the torrent download folder to a new folder where it renames and reorganizes the file, but the pointer for that file and the file in the downloads folder point to the same file on your hdd so.you have two copies with different names but only one "file". Now you have a perfectly organized media folder to feed into Plex while all of those files also live in your completed downloads folder with the original naming conventions. And it's all automagic.
Thank you for this comment - I have been content with just a torrent client and jellyfin for ages. All files are tossed into a television or movies folder across multiple drives, like MoviesDriveA and MoviesDriveB. It works but it's a real pain sometimes and having everything just go to a simpler torrent downloads would be a great time saver.
I was amazed when I found it this was how you were supposed to do it, and also kinda mad about there being no way for me to go back and seed the thousands of torrents I had renamed to get them to play right with Plex imports. Oh well, you live and you learn. If you have any issues the sonarr subreddit has some great guides in the sticky section and fairly helpful users that should be able to get the symlink think sorted out. Noone tells you that's how it's supposed to be when you start, you kinda have to bump into the information when you get mad about this very problem.
Good luck! I bet you'll be pretty happy with the drastic reduction in labor once you set it up
There's a silver lining because for some reason qBit updated and I lost hundreds of torrents including for private trackers. So my old workflow of managing via moving torrent locations is broken anyhow. Time to just restart, get new torrents, manage them better, and try to manually reorganize files that don't have a torrent file anymore. Thank you!!
Sonarr/radar will organize and rename the ones without torrents for you... Don't do it manually. Just point them (sonarr/radarr) at the downloads folder as an import folder. Sonarr is for TV and radarr is for movies, if you didn't know.
Yes. Just to add, not everything hard links for me due to files being seeded (and locked) straight after it's done downloading, so later I go back and fix the bulk by entering the download folder and typing:
- To list files that weren't hard linked:
cd /path/to/downloads/
find . -links 1 -type f | grep ".mp4$\|.mkv$" | sort > ../fixthese.txt
And going through the list and either reimporting manually via *arr>Wanted>Import manually, or
- omitting certain shows from the command once you're certain all the unlinked are unwanted extras with:
find . -links 1 -type f | grep ".mp4$\|.mkv$" | grep -vE "./(Band.Of.Brothers|The Boys|Westworld|.*\] (Attack On Titan|JoJo)|.*ample.mkv$)" | sort > ../fixthese.txt
( "./(|.." covers most shows, "*] (|.." covers files starting with e.g. [Anime Time], and ".*ample.mkv$" covered my 'sample' and "Sample" videos)
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The one main thing that has stopped me from setting up Sonarr is that I want my media server and torrent server to be on two different machines. Can Sonarr handle symlinks or whatever over the network or something?
Currently, I manually add torrents to Qbittorrent on Server A, which downloads the file to the hard drive on Server A. When downloading has completed, I use SFTP to transfer the files to a much larger hard drive pool in Server B, which runs Jellyfin. Then I may use SSH to rename the files to something Jellyfin-friendly, if necessary. I end up with two copies of the files this way, but most likely eventually end up deleting the files from Server A when I need to free up space and decide to no longer seed them.
When I tried to have one server running both programs, having a lot of activity in Qbittorrent made Jellyfin move sluggishly. Running them on different servers like this allows them to not bottleneck each other at all, and they can run at full speed at all times. I could see myself using Sonarr if I can still keep those two main programs segregated to separate machines.
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50 upvotes and yet half the comments here are "it worked for me OP must be using it wrong" and the other half are "Using Plex is worse than bombing Palestinian children "
Oh you think bombing Palestinian children is wrong? Antisemite.
Eh, it's a meme. If people interacted hopefully it gave them a chuckle if nothing else
The full lemmy exprience!
Amen 🙏
What isn’t working? It’s usually pretty flawless for me as long as it’s not anime and that’s what shoko is for
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Jellyfin just works.
It kind of did. I lucked out that I'm already using a VPN with meshnet and I obviously can't share my library with anyone that isn't on a certain level of VPN literacy. But overall that was worth the switch
I have zero issues. You can change the metadata of your obscure files if plex can't pull the metadata on it's own. Really no issues importing my 24 TB's of media.
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As someone who meticulously organises media... this was not a problem for either Plex or Jellyfin.
The one thing that gets both of them fucked up for some reason is Ghost Stories, even with the TVDB tag, which should make it a non-issue. Still, it's easy to fix, on both platforms.
My media looks like this:
Movies: [decade][Title as it appears on TVDB] ([Year]) ([Special things like Directors Cut or whatever]) ([Resolution]).mkv
Shows (including anime): [Show Title][Show Title] S[season]E[episode] [Episode title].mkv
Music: [Artist]([Year]) [Album title][Track Number] [Track title].m4a
Oh, another issue you will run into, with shows, is "fan ordering." A good one for this is Sword Art Online. Some very vocal fans hate that there's a fourth season. They don't actually hate the content of the fourth season, they just think it should be combined with the third season for whatever dumb ass reason people on the Internet get incensed about stupid shit. They tried to plead their case on the TVDB forums and got shot down. So if you go by their order, the latter half of the episodes won't be named and won't have descriptions. Then, whenever the fifth season comes out, if you try to call it the fourth season, it'll get the titles and descriptions of the actual fourth season that's out now. So you can't do that.
If you're having issues with TV shows, get an app called Rename My TV Series. It's on Windows, it's on Mac, and it's on Linux. And it's free. Or you could pirate FileBot, I guess. Or pay for it. I'm not your dad. But I'll use free software over warez any day, as long as it does what I need. Why pirate when the free version does just as good? Just like Plex and Jellyfin, RMTVS uses TVDB, so you know your filenames will comply with your media server. And, if you're on Plex (not sure about Jellyfin on this specific one), you can rename the seasons, so you could call Season 4 "Season 3, Part II" and everything will still work. However, I named my SAO seasons "Sword Art Online," "Sword Art Online II", "Sword Art Online: Alicization," and "Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld." It looks really cool, since that anime doesn't use seasons, each season actually has a slightly different name for the show. (It's probably, if we're being that nit picky, several shows in one franchise, but that's not how TVDB wants it, and Plex won't let you do it that way, either.)
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Plex
There's your problem. Here's the solution: Kodi.
Kodi will not be better at this.
I used to have VLC as my media server (easier to setup than Plex or Jellyfin)
cool thing is Jellyfin is free and you can switch right now
if you have android TV clients, give Wholfin a go, it's a FOSS jellyfin client that looks and behaves like the Plex client, it's fantastic and makes transitioning users over so much easier.
It's not better at this.
You will also not find as good of a support of Jellyfin by many devices like Smart TVs, game consoles, etc. Also, it just doesn't work as reliably in many ways, like identifying media, transcoding it and sorting it correctly. It is an alternative to Plex in the same way that Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop: Superior in terms of licensing, but not as an actual piece of software.
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My entire library is pirated, never had any issues apart from when ab fab was named as some Arabic horse show
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Rename things. Plex is very good at detecting stuff. The extra information in torrent filenames messes with it.
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