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.
Oh. Thanks, I wasn’t actually wanting help today. I just wanted to post memes to blow off some steam
Why the fuck are you (still) using plex at all?
Not OP, but I run plex over Jellyfin as for me plex is just better. Has better clients, looks better, better features. Jellyfin isn’t always the answer. Maybe if someone releases a apple TV app that is better then meh, I will spin my jellyfin server backup .
Yea, Jellyfin is far from perfect, and it’s what I use.
It’s a bit more work than it should be, like it loves to identify stuff as Asian if it doesn’t have a perfect match, sometimes with folders properly structured with year and IMDB ID.
I’m constantly having to fix metadata or even remove a specific movie, rescan, return the movie folder, rescan, and then it sees it right.
I’ve had to blow away my entire Jellyfin database multiple times this year because it just loses it’s mind and won’t properly identify something.
It’s what I use, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but it is an incredible value, and it doesn’t phone home or any other nonsense.
but it is an incredible value, and it doesn’t phone home or any other nonsense.
This right here. Especially the last bit. ☝🏼
For me I use Emby, not only because I found it first, but I can’t justify switching to Jellyfin because the UI is just too old-looking. I prefer curves
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.
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I put mine behind a reverse proxy, like any sane person would. Configure an original sni and you are basically invisible. (Tls1.3, doh/dot make it even better, depending on your threat model, but most likely overkill)
While you are (probably?) correct, this is significantly beyond what is required to deploy Plex for a standard home server chump like me.
I’m using jellyfin and a few others, but am consciously putting off exposing these services to the web until I can learn enough about security to do so. Given life, this will probably take me the better part of a year…
you are right to be careful here. But it certainly is also not a “requirement to deploy jellyfin” either. It’s just a good practice to minimize attack surface, no matter what you expose. Unless it’s meant for the general public and advertised, then this makes little sense :-)
Also, most selfhosters have at best one IP to use. This helps with the one-IP-multiple-webservices problem anyway.
I use tailscale when I’m in these situations. It even works behind the most cursed CGNAT like starlink where it’s impossible to even port forward.
As long as your tunnel is running you just use the private IP address for your jellyfin machine and your parents will access it like it’s local.
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You set it up for them and make a bookmark? That’s what I do with my grandpa
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.
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.txtAnd 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)
Did you set the paths for your mounted folders in the docker appropriately? If you have the download folder and the media library mounted as distinct shares in the docker template it can break the links. I had to put the download and media library folders in the same mounted directory to make my links work.
I had /mnt/user/media/tv mounted to /tv And /mnt/user/media/downloads mounted to /downloads and had to change to so I just had /Mnt/user/media mounted to /media, with the download and media library folders both existing as subdirectories inside of /media to make them link properly. There is a faq on the sonarr reddit about this exact issue and it’s a common failure point.
Ah, thank you, but I run it as a service. Sonarr currently has /media/disk2/New for downloads and media/disk2/Shows for main shows.
If its running as a service on bare metal then the issue i described should not apply to you, as the files are all on the same harddrive as far as sonarr is concerned. I am by no means an expert on squashing config issues wrt this stuff, but there are people who know considerably more than me hanging out in the sonarr reddit who could probably help. Sorry to point your towards a corpo hell hole, but thats the place that I know where the people that actually know their shit and want to help are hanging out. Just reading the stickied FAQ sorted out all my issues and everything symlinks for me now.
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 used to have VLC as my media server (easier to setup than Plex or Jellyfin)
Rename things. Plex is very good at detecting stuff. The extra information in torrent filenames messes with it.
Yep. That’s how I spent my afternoon
Plex
There’s your problem. Here’s the solution: Kodi.
Kodi will not be better at this.
I have gotten pretty good at understanding what jellyfin wants from me. usually just english movie title (release year), and for tv series series title (release year) / season 1 / s1e1, s1e2, etc. be sure to check thetvdb ordering.
some shows have multiple orders, and jellyfin seems to randomly decide one fits better than another. had that recently with pokemon, which doesn’t have a fully mapped tvdb order at all. still managed to finagle it somehow, and now I’ve got literally 1337 episodes (not everything but also not nothing. I’m happy with it) sorted.
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.
