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Just a question, why do you guys want sn unopinionated media server? I love that I click some buttons in jellyfin and it just does it's thing, I don't have to think of my own structure

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I hate having to rename my files on an arbitrary pattern to have items show up in the media browser. I want a media browser to organize my media, not to ask me to organize it myself.

I hate having to rename my files on an arbitrary pattern to have items show up in the media browser.

This is why I went back to iTunes. Full, robust metadata support and organization.

It's 2024. Why are people still cramming metadata into file names like it's 1983?

Maybe I'm not understanding, but they only organization I do is put each movie and related files like cover and SRT into its own folder named after the movie. Seems to work fine.

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