Are you sure? I’ve been just dumping my files into a folder and Jellyfin manages fine. If it’s music, you only see the files in your “songs” tab though, not in any of the other ones. Slightly annoying since there’s no Multi-Select in the Songs tab if you want to add them to playlists, but you can definitely access them just fine
All I can say it isn’t this way for me. At the point where I made the move to jellyfin, my filenames where in all different types of formats. Jellyfin was able to organise them all. Only a few files were not recognised like the other commenter said.
is there a way to do jellyfin without imposing strict filename requirements
My experience is that it will sort of work with whatever you dump in there, might just not be organized perfectly neatly.
If it bothers you, you can dig into strict filenames and metadata annotations and such.
my experience was it just fully ignores anything that doesnt meet the draconian file naming standard
Are you sure? I’ve been just dumping my files into a folder and Jellyfin manages fine. If it’s music, you only see the files in your “songs” tab though, not in any of the other ones. Slightly annoying since there’s no Multi-Select in the Songs tab if you want to add them to playlists, but you can definitely access them just fine
All I can say it isn’t this way for me. At the point where I made the move to jellyfin, my filenames where in all different types of formats. Jellyfin was able to organise them all. Only a few files were not recognised like the other commenter said.
The Linux elders deemed you unworthy then.
if the jellyfin devs are linux elders, god help us.