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Jellyfin seems to struggle a bit with my anime library when the files don't follow a typical western TV show structure, but I'm otherwise very happy with it!

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Huh, anime is my primary use for jellyfin, it seems pretty fine for me with a Show/Season X/SXXEYY - whatever you want.mp4 structure.

The one issue I've had is with Danganronpa but that's because the backing service for data (TheMovieDB) wants to insist that DR3 Future arc is part of DR1 and not related to DR3 Despair arc.

I don't bother renaming files after I download them so they're left looking something like this:

  [group] anime name - 01 [fileinfo] [crc32].mkv

This becomes problematic when you have shows like New Game, where the first is stylized as NEW GAME! and the second season is NEW GAME!!. Jellyfin shows them both as the first season of the anime, where as Plex with the Hama TV scanner can distinguish between them.

Consider installing Sonarr. Even if you don't use it to automatically search for episodes (its primary usecase), then you can use it to copy over from your download client to Jellyfin and rename the files to something sane that Jellyfin will always pick up.

I already use Sonarr - I'm not a fan of maintaining separate libraries for original/renamed collections.

Their weird content/metadata detection is also what turns me off. Even just having a sane 'files' view with an arbitrary depth would be fine, bit it just does not work. They don't scan metadata like id3 tags. At least this is how I remember my impression when I tried it a year ago.

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