I’ve got my library just as I want it, and have made a couple of changes to the <sorttitle> 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.

  • @entropicdriftEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    You can lock the metadata for a given piece of media from the Jellyfin webapp in the same place you’d edit the metadata, it’s down at the bottom of the page.

    • schmurnanOPEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      Yeah I thought that but couldn’t see Sort Title as one of the fields that can be locked.

      • @entropicdriftEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        Not individually but I think if you lock the whole thing it works

    • schmurnanOPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Yeah but how? I could make the volume read only via Docker but then how will new library entries get metadata?

      • i_understand
        3•11 months ago

        @schmurnan

        The other thing you can do is mount a “new media” folder writeable, and add new media there.

        When you have everything the way you want it, then move the files to the folder that’s mounted read only.

    • schmurnanOPEnglish
      2•11 months ago

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

      • fnvEnglish
        3•11 months ago

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

          • fnvEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            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.

            • @glad_catEnglish
              1•11 months ago

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

              • fnvEnglish
                1•11 months 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…

        • schmurnanOPEnglish
          1•11 months ago

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