I have a rather large library of movies gathered over the years (all entirely legally I assure you officer). I’m in the process of setting up a Jellyfin server so I can stream them on the go.

Currently it’s just one folder full of individual files but Jellyfin wants each movie within it’s own folder.

Is there a command, or set of commands, that would do this all in one go? ie iterate my way through a folder, create a new folder with the same name as a file, move that file into this new folder and repeat a few hundred times.

I am using Cachy OS (arch) and have Dolphin and yazi as file managers if that helps. I guess a bash script would be the best way to achieve this but my skills are quite rusty.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    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.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    18 hours ago

    I mean, I’d need to fiddle around with it, but presumably this wouldn’t be all too hard to script.

    Just do a for-loop over the output of ls. And then in each iteration step, you’d do something like:

    mkdir $name
mv $name $name/$name

    This will mean, though, that the file extension is part of the folder name, if you care about that.

    • Denjin@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      That’s probably the most straight forward and I could probably add a bit of regex to trim the extension off the name as well.

      Now I need to try and remember how to script considering I haven’t coded anything for 15 years!

  • WinningEnglish
    3·
    23 hours ago

    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.

    • Denjin@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      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.

      • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        22 hours ago

        This isn’t strictly necessary. My movies library is a mix of both loose files and folders and works just fine.

        • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          41·
          21 hours ago

          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.