My Jellyfin server happens to have a lot of radio dramas on it, which are currently in the Music folder. I tried putting them in a Shows folder but it did not recognize the mp3 files. Personally, I’m a bit frustrated by this since it would be so nice to set a theme song for each of them like you would a TV show. Is there a way to make that happen?

And while we are on the topic, is there a better way to present radio dramas on Jellyfin? Or am I stuck with presenting each one as an extremely large music album?

  • paperemail@links.rocks
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    19 hours ago

    I wanna move to jellyfin somewhere next year because of Plex’s user-unfriendly practices, but I haven’t yet. It good to hear from @TunaLobster@lemmy.world that improvements are coming.

    Here’s what I did for my podcasts in Plex that might just work for Jellyfin too:

    I created a separate music library for my podcasts, and checked the settings for remember play positions and prefer local metadata. (This is probably all plex specific)

    I then edited each mp3 file to contain the following metadata:

    • the podcast name as “Artist”
    • the category of episodes as album
    • the season of the episode as disc number
    • the episode number as track number
    • the episode title as track title

    I’ll give some examples:

    The Delta Flyers is a podcast that discusses episodes about Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Deep Space 9. This episode discusses the third Voyager episode of season two, Projections.

    • Artist: The Delta Flyers
    • Album: Voyager
    • Disc: 2
    • Track: 3
    • Title: [2020-08-31] S2E03: Projections

    TrashFuture is a comedy podcast about politics, technology and the future. It has mostly regular episodes, but some fall into a specific category.

    This is an episode in the category Britainology that discusses specific moments in British culture.

    • Episode title: Britainology 79: UK Garage feat. Dan Hancox
    • Artist: TrashFuture
    • Album: Britainology
    • Disc: 2024
    • Track: 79
    • Title: UK Garage feat. Dan Hancox

    This is a regular episode from sept 11th of 2023 that discusses bad construction in the UK:

    • Episode Title: RAAC City feat. Well There’s Your Problem
    • Artist: TrashFuture
    • Album: TrashFuture
    • Disc: 2023
    • Track: 0911
    • Title: [2023-09-11] RAAC City feat. Well There’s Your Problem

    For a weekly podcast this is around 50 episodes per disc. If you have a daily show, you might want to use “disc: 202309 track: 11” instead, and/or split each year into a separate album. E.g. Album “TrashFuture 2023” Disc: 09 Track: 11.

    I hope this gives you some inspiration in how you can manage your radio shows.