Do you use radarr to manage movie downloads? Because it has a manual import tool that will scan your movies folder and manually import them, and that will also rename all of your files and put them into individual folders, if you set it up correctly. This will handle everything for you. It can even perform this task in bulk, which I think is pretty amazing.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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It does? I don't do that with my jellyfin library. Are your file names ok? I just have 27 folders #A-Z and sort by first letter, ignoring A/The but keeping it in place in the filename. Works great
I know the file manager Double Commander has a built in multi renamer that would be able to do this if you still want to.
The wiki advises a certain naming convention and folder structure (as linked by another user) and it's a useful exercise in giving all my media a consistent structure as managing it personally has become a bit of a nightmare.
This isn't strictly necessary. My movies library is a mix of both loose files and folders and works just fine.
As your library grows, or becomes more complex, or contains anything that's difficult to differentiate, Jellyfin will struggle to properly identify.
With well-named folders (release date, imdbid), my Jellyfin server still has issues where it will mis-identify some things that arent mainstream. Old movies are specifically problematic, as are rare titles that have any similarity to something more popular.
Using the folder naming structure reduced mis-identification tremendously.
Protip: find the tvdb/omdb ID and stick it in the name if having issues still (see docs)
Well, yes, but you can get exactly the same result by having well-named files as well. Having them well-named in general makes identification more reliable, regardless of whether it's the full path or just the filename.
No, you can't.
With my 500 movies and several hundred TV series, that does not work.
Jellyfin mis-identifies a significant portion of it doing this.
Only by using the named folders (with year and imdbid) does it get 90% right.
And I've had this across 5 Jellyfin servers in the last year - I've done a LOT of testing.
Why does Jellyfin want each movie in its own folder? I've just dumped everything in one folder and it works fine
See link I posted
xdofor is your tool, and maybe a hint of regex
Regex is a game changer.