Download media items with subtitles/metadata/images included as ZIP

[whilenot-dev]

Like mentioned in the docs, I store my movies into individual folders like this:

Movies
└── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019).mp4
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019).nfo
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019).en_us.srt
    ├── cover.png
    └── theme.mp3

While my .mkv movies usually come with included subtitles, all my .mp4 movies have external subtitles. I also store the metadata as files in the same folder.

Here's the issue: Some of my users are only allowed to download items from my library, as I want to limit my resources regarding streaming. So when one of these users currently (Jellyfin version 12.2) wants to download a movie, they'll only get to download the file of the movie, and any external subtitles or other metadata are excluded from such a download. I'd prefer if they'll get to download the whole folder with all external subtitles, metadata and images as a single archive.

My current workaround is to create Matroska containers for all .mp4 movies, which gets a bit tedious after a while.

I'd like to propose that the download functionality includes any additional files within a movie folder and downloads these files as an archive (ZIP).

[Yoseforf]

I absolutely love and support this idea it would be very helpful specially for foreign media I have all my foreign media with external subtitles I like to have it download with the Media I am not sure about archive I don't think it's necessary and also it would add more processing

[enriqueflogh]

I'm facing similar scenario... it would be great to add some functionality to allow "additional resources" download. So when downloading like in example to watch during a flight you can select to download additionally: subtitles, nfo, cover...