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setting up jellyfin for anime properly (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by nexttech@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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so im setting up a proper anime server and im kind of stuck on the metadata

been running jellyfin for a bit , had everything scan and it looked fine at first but then i noticed stuff was misclassified , wrong episode orders, some seasons (of the same show) getting merged when they shouldnt be. basically a mess

wiped everything and starting fresh. currently looking at shoko server + shokofin plugin as the proper solution instead of just trying to fix filenames manually

my situation is a bit different tho , i dont torrent. most of my stuff came from animepahe and similar sites so the files are encoded in mp4 ,

anyone gone through this with a similar source situation ? is shoko the move or is there something better for my anime :)

thanks!

Edit : Almost forgot ! if you have any tools, tips or anything really that would be helpful to a beginner like me (like tailscale) please mention them in the comments and i will check them out.

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[-] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Proper directory sorting and manual meta data hint entry is literally the number one way to make jellyfin behave properly. If you're on linux kRename (available on flathub) makes this relatively painless.

Series (premiere year) [imdb or other db id]/
                             Season ##/
                                   Series Name - S##E## - Epsiode Title.ext

Works 99.9% of the time. As long as you have either the imdb id (mostly normie anime will be fine with this) or an anidb plugin or similar for the obscure stuff it'll work 100% of the time.

This also allows easy searching of individual episodes outside of jellyfin, should you find an episode that somehow got corrupted or otherwise is just not what it should be.

Bonus: If you take the time to do this (literally 8-10 hours max for a collection of tens of thousands of episodes of shows) your library becomes much more portable as any competitor to jellyfin and any addons will now just automagically detect everything properly.

[-] nexttech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

+1million percent points !

Thank you @marxismtomorrow from the bottom of my heart!

this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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