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.