Support for Movie Editions

[Metal-Snake]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are movies with multiple editions like Extended Edition, Director's Cut or even 720P, 1080P could be considered a edition (or version). While Kodi has no support for that yet, work on it has started a few times already, see: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=337992 Others like Jellyfin do support those.

Describe the solution you'd like Movie editions in Jellyfin, Infuse and others are defined by the file name of the movie. I will describe in short what the file names should look like, at the bottom of this post I add some links which add more information.

The edition is defined in the filename by adding " - Edition name" to the end of the filename, like so:

A great movie (2020)
├── A great movie (2020) - 1080P.mkv
├── A great movie (2020) - Extended Edition.mkv
└── A great movie (2020) - Uncut.mkv

In this example the editions are "1080P", "Extended Edition" and "Uncut". Media Elch doesn't really need to do anything with this information. It basically needs to ignore this information when using a scraper and naming the .nfo and images. Those filenames would be:

A great movie (2020).nfo A great movie (2020)-poster.jpg

and so on.

Describe alternatives you've considered Currently I either remove the edition name from the metadata files, or first scrape and then add the edition to the movie file name.

Additional context https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies#multiple-versions-of-a-movie Multiple Versions of a Movie

https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090947-Metadata-101 Tags for Cuts, Parts, and Versions

https://emby.media/support/articles/Movie-Naming.html#multi-version-movies Multi-version movies

[ticao2]

Today I solve this problem by creating a folder for each version. A great movie (2020) ├── A great movie (2020) - 1080P.mkv A great movie DC ├── A great movie (2020) - Director Cut.mkv A great movie UC └── A great movie (2020) - Uncut.mkv

[Metal-Snake]

@ticao2 that's what I did before, because that was needed for Kodi. But I'm trying different players now, and would like to use this feature in Jellyfin and Infuse.

[Metal-Snake]

This request might need to change. I only now realized it doesn't work as expected in Jellyfin. I asked in their support channel, and will get back to this if I got a working solution.