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
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
The Linux elders deemed you unworthy then.
if the jellyfin devs are linux elders, god help us.
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