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
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.
Lol Plex.
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.
Why the fuck are you (still) using plex at all?
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.
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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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.
You can, if the file makes it into your library in the first place. You’ve never had it just ignore certain files?
No, not even Video_TS files. They all show up and I just fix the metadata if Plex can’t find it.
Fuck it, I’m redownloding most of my library. Going to go through these files with a comb until it likes them and if that doesn’t work I’m trying jellyfin
Yams.media
How’s that one for sharing with people?
The link is for a script/tool to help install your own media server. To share your media you’ll want to consider the best method of remote access for the people you’ll be sharing with, and what your internet upload speed can handle. For example if your ISP provides your connection via coax, 4k streaming would not be ideal, as upload speeds with coax tend to be 10-40mb. As for access, you can setup wireguard tunnels, use tailscale, or a reverse proxy. Those are probably the most accessible and well known, which will help when you have issues and need questions answered. As for what media server to use, I’d always recommend Jellyfin.
Wait. Will this do me any good now that I already have my Jellyfin media server up?
Probably. I’d recommend just going through the steps on their website and then following the instructions, but just omit Jellyfin from the services to setup.