Jellyfin for iOS 1.7.0 Submitted to the App Store

I see what you did there.

donkeystomple

Man I’ve been waiting for Jellyfin to get Transcoded Downloads forever. This will get it so much closer to being completely viable as a replacement for Plex.

Victor reply

I'm waiting on duplicate detection. It really sucks right now when I have three sets of different Bluey and The Last Airbender series on my home screen, when they're all the same show but different quality/language.

Plex does this easily by just letting me pick the version. Come on, Jelleh!

kaki reply

sh.itjust.works

Have you tried the "Merge Versions" plugin?

Victor reply

I have not, and if this is a WontFix for Jellyfin I suppose I would have to. But this should come out of the box, honestly.

Chewy reply

discuss.tchncs.de

It does work for movies if they're in the same directory and have the same name before a -.

For shows there's sadly now way iirc.

E.g. Movie Name (2025) - 1080p x264.mkv and Movie Name (2025) - UHD HEVC.mkv would make Jellyfin show a video selection in the same way they do for audio currently.

Jellyfin in general requires proper naming for media to get detected, which is not problem with automation but not that great for a collection grown over time.

Victor reply

if they're in the same directory and have the same name before a -.

Okay yeah, I meant out of the box as in without the need to modify my entire library to accommodate Jellyfin's particular naming scheme.

Appoxo reply

Isnt that down to naming? Because they allow versions (at least for movies).
Is this a case of sonarr and sonarr 4K?

ryannathans reply

Versions works for shows for me just fine

Victor reply

Without any renaming of files or plugins?

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ryannathans reply

Yeah you can click two in the UI and merge but it's clunky

Victor reply

Yeah that's not feasible with the amount of media I have.

Victor reply

I don't use any *arrs since a long time (rip rarbg), so I don't know. And I don't remember anything I put on my drives, Plex just recognizes everything on the first try, 99.99% of the time and detects duplicates. Jellyfin does not (the duplicates part).

Appoxo reply

Well that is your problem. Jellyfin expects them properly named. Sure you can just dump your collection into a folder and call it a day but then you'll have your described issue with duplicates.

Please read those:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/#naming
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies#naming

Victor reply

I guess Jellyfin just is inferior to Plex in this regard, then. It's my problem, that Plex solves. 🙃👍

Appoxo reply

Weird take.

But if it works for you, who am I to judge.

Victor reply

Take? What take? Plex handles it automatically, Jellyfin does not. That's not an opinion of mine, it's an objective fact. No take. I'll stick to Plex because of this until I'm forced not to.

ryannathans reply

Merge them into the same title and use the versions feature. On disk it can be done with a hypen in the file name, or you can use a plugin

Victor reply

I refuse to use a plugin for this simple feature, honestly. (I know, then it's a me-problem I guess, but Plex handles this without issue.) And I refuse to alter the file names for... solidarity purposes (ratio), and it's cumbersome.

So I'm screwed, huh. This is a WontFix for Jellyfin?

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ryannathans reply

Hardlink (or symlink) the files to another directory for jellyfin and rename them there

Victor reply

I'm not looking for workarounds which require work, in all honesty. That's too much maintenance. I have a lot of new files coming in all the time. Manually renaming thousands of movies, hundreds of shows. It simply isn't feasible. I need the system to handle it, like Plex does. Not anything to down vote, it's just a requirement for me. 🤷‍♂️

Chewy reply

discuss.tchncs.de

Well yes, it might be a simple feature, but it's still work someone has to do, and there's many requested features - as well as maintaining the current feature set. I do expect Jellyfin to get this feature at some point, but it might take another 5 years.

As we're talking about existing/missing features: Sadly there's an internet connection required to login to Plex, which is a no-go for me.

And I'd really love a feature to be able to share my library with someone while being logged in the same account. I.e. a kind of federation without duplicating content. Iirc Plex has something like this, by keeping the Plex server and user account separate.

Victor reply

but it's still work someone has to do, and there's many requested features - as well as maintaining the current feature set.

I mean, sure. It's a community project too, right, so turnaround is even longer probably. I know it's not going to happen at the flip of a switch, I'm a software engineer by trade. I'm just saying that Plex handles this while Jellyfin does not, so I'm going to use Plex until this works in Jellyfin.

I was looking into the Merge Versions plugin, but I'm hesitant to use it if it means that it'll go into my library and rename all my files. I don't want that. But I couldn't find a description of how the plugin works, so I'm holding off for now.

Sadly there's an internet connection required to login to Plex, which is a no-go for me.

I don't think this is necessarily true? You can manually enter the server address without logging via plex.tv, I believe.

donkeystomple reply

Oh I didn’t even know it struggles with that. I haven’t used Jellyfin a whole lot but I think it’s good to always have a backup.

Hopefully they get that fixed as well.

Victor reply

I really hope they do. It's bugging me a lot.

Supervisor194 reply

Everything about Jellyfin is what I want that Plex isn't. Except for one minor detail: I only ever watch Plex using my AppleTV. I don't allow my server to be accessed via the Internet and I don't watch movies on some tiny-ass phone screen when I'm at home with a 55" monster hanging on the wall.

Pacrat173

Can’t wait for the update and when I finally understand how to use my server(been a months long struggle)

Appoxo reply

Not a pro but need help? :)

Pacrat173 reply

Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had trouble shooting help on here. Whenever I get a chance I’ll try and get my sever going again but thanks for the offer!

Appoxo reply

Feel free to save my username and semd me a PM or tag me when posting on the jellyfin community :)

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