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Stop Jellyfin from overwriting my .nfo files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve got my library just as I want it, and have made a couple of changes to the in my movies’ .nfo files.

This is fine for a day or so, and then Jellyfin decides to overwrite my .nfo files.

I have them set to “lock” via tinyMediaManager but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Every day it’ll reorder some movies in my library.

Pretty sure I’ve also disabled the image plug-ins in the library so it shouldn’t be pulling any metadata from anywhere.

Not a huge deal but incredibly frustrating — I want my library showing movies in a certain order and it’s driving me nuts when they’re rearranged 🤣

Any ideas?

TIA.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you could mount your media as read only :ro assuming you use a container

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How will that work when new media is added to my library, though? Will it add it without any metadata?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use tiny media manager for nfo files. Jelyfin just read, no write.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the advantages of Tiny Media Manager?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jelyfin is awesome but in my case plugins for metadata scraping are behaving somehow weird and slow. And I don’t trust Jelyfin regarding write operations so access is just read-only.

I use tmm v3 for metadata scraping and renaming, which work great in my case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know TMM and I’m curious why are you using the v3 when the v4 is available?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last time when I checked, I have to pay for needed plugins on v4. V3 is a bit limited but “free” and fine for me. I plan to write my own cli tool just for scraping metadata, subtitles, nfo generation, renaming,… maybe some day…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I use tinyMediaManager too. I’ve just tried locking the metadata on a few movies, will see if it works.