docs(media): the TV library's own relayout, with the evidence chain it believes
One page owns relayout: the census commands, the order the planner believes
things in, the two refusals a dry run on the real library proved necessary, the
apply and rollback path, and the standing wart that a provider name can itself
be scene junk ("Black Clover 001", 92 episodes) — renaming that is Jellyfin's
job, not the mover's.
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type: reference
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title: Media Relayout
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description: "Census, plan and apply the movie library into Jellyfin format, and move TV out of it: the gates, refusals, rollback."
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description: "Census, plan and apply the movie and TV libraries into Jellyfin format: gates, evidence chain, refusals, rollback."
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tags: [dankserver, media-server, jellyfin, plex, procedure]
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timestamp: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z
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---
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@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ The movie library on [[Entropy Volume]] arrived as release folders —
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`Some.Movie.2019.1080p.WiKiTaLx.x265-FOO/` with the video inside named after
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the release. [[Jellyfin]] matches a movie by folder and file name, so the
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release noise cost posters, extras and versions. These scripts turn that
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library into Jellyfin's own shape — and move TV back out of it — and nothing
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else in the repo touches a media file.
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library into Jellyfin's own shape — the movies, the TV packs, and the TV that
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turns up in the movie share — and nothing else in the repo touches a media file.
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| Script | Touches media? | Output |
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|---|---|---|
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@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ else in the repo touches a media file.
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| `scripts/media-plan.py` | no — TSVs in, TSVs out | the plan + the exception report |
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| `scripts/media-apply.py` | **renames, never copies**; sweeps only what a run emptied | the moves, plus a journal |
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| `scripts/media-tv.py` | no — TSV out | a plan that moves TV into the TV library |
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| `scripts/media-shows.py` | no — TSV out | a plan that re-files the TV library itself |
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The seam is `tests/media_relayout.bats`; the target contract is quoted from
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The seams are `tests/media_relayout.bats` and `tests/media_shows.bats`; the target contract is quoted from
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[jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies](https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies)
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in `media-plan.py`'s docstring.
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@@ -153,6 +154,66 @@ folder it owns, never from the title whose bonus folder it happens to be parked
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in — `The Cleveland Show S03E07` inside `Die Hard (1988)/extras/` is not a 1988
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show. A name whose marker is `Part 2` is a film and stays put.
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## The TV library's own relayout
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`/mnt/entropy/TVShows` is scene packs rather than a library, and Jellyfin has
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already matched and numbered most of it. `scripts/media-shows.py` re-files that
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library into the same shape, and it never guesses: every series name and every
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episode number it writes traces to an authority, and what has none is parked for
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a human to read.
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```bash
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# 1. The authority: Jellyfin's own matched rows (the DB opens read-only).
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python3 scripts/media-census.py jellyfin --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
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--out /tmp/tv_titles.tsv
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# 2. What is on disk (stat only), and the runtimes the film arm needs.
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python3 scripts/media-census.py enumerate --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
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--out /tmp/tv_enum.tsv
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python3 scripts/media-census.py probe --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
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--enum /tmp/tv_enum.tsv --jobs 6 --out /tmp/tv_probed.tsv
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# The probe is the slow step: ffprobe reads both ends of every file.
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# 3. The plan. --tmdb needs TMDB_API_KEY; without it a series no provider dated
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# is simply named without a year, which Jellyfin accepts.
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python3 scripts/media-shows.py --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows --enum /tmp/tv_enum.tsv \
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--titles /tmp/tv_titles.tsv --probed /tmp/tv_probed.tsv \
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--out /tmp/tv_plan.tsv --exceptions /tmp/tv_exceptions.txt
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# 4. Read the exceptions file FIRST — it is the review, not a log. Then the same
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# executor, journal and rollback as the movie relayout above.
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scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /tmp/tv_plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
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--journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl --apply
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```
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Evidence, strongest first — the order the planner believes things:
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- the **episode marker the file's own name states** (`S01E02-E03`, `1x04`);
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- the **`Season NN` folder it sits in and the number its name leads with inside
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it**: `Season 19/01 Charles Barkley, Nirvana.avi` is S19E01;
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- the **provider row**: identity (the series name and its year), and the
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numbering of a file whose own name says nothing;
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- a **bonus folder** anywhere above the file, or Jellyfin's `ExtraType` → the
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series' canonical extra folder;
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- a runtime over `SHORT_MAX` makes it film-shaped, and it leaves for `--movies`
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only when a movie provider names it — otherwise it parks.
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Two refusals carry the design, and a dry run on the real library found both:
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- **Folders resolve a series; they never invent one.** A folder's words may
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resolve a file to a series a provider has already named — `(CBB) Tengen Toppa
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Gurren Lagann - The Complete Series (BD 1080p)` names the registered *Tengen
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Toppa Gurren Lagann* — but a bonus subfolder is not a show. An early run made
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`…/03. Extra/01. NCOP/NCOP 01.mkv` into a root series called `01 NCOP`.
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- **A scraped row does not outrank the filesystem.** Jellyfin numbers
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multi-season packs badly: every file under `SNL 16-20/Season 16..19` carries
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season 16 episode 20, and one Gundam row says season 2004. The folder, then
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the file's own leading number, win; a row that still insists on season 1989
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parks its file instead of creating `Season 1989`.
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The provider's name is copied verbatim, warts included: Jellyfin carries a Series
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named `Black Clover 001` (92 episodes, no year) because it matched a pack off a
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filename. Renaming a show is Jellyfin's work — a folder rename never touches its
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provider ids — so the mover keeps the name it is handed and strips only the pack
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index a release leads with (`4a. Seed DESTINY` → `Seed DESTINY`).
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## Laws
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- **A moved file is a 404 in [[Plex]] until its section is rescanned.** The
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is a locator: one row, one clause, no numbers.
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| [[Jellyfin]] | Jellyfin on Dankserver: quadlet unit, overlay metadata view, provider keys, ports, access, transcode status. |
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| [[mariadb]] | The MariaDB backend for RomM: quadlet unit, network alias, env-file secret handling, and the backup path. |
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| [[Media Metadata View]] | The SSD-backed overlay the two media servers read and write: shape, guards, commands, laws, rollback. |
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| [[Media Relayout]] | Census, plan and apply the movie library into Jellyfin format, and move TV out of it: the gates, refusals, rollback. |
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| [[Media Relayout]] | Census, plan and apply the movie and TV libraries into Jellyfin format: gates, evidence chain, refusals, rollback. |
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| [[Plex]] | Plex Media Server is a **containerized media server on Dankserver**: a podman |
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| [[redis]] | The Redis cache and task queue for RomM: quadlet unit, network alias topology, and the backup path. |
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| [[RomM]] | RomM (ROM Manager) is a self-hosted ROM library manager and player. |
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