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Hi folks,

I'm in the process of setting up Jellyfin. The basic setup is easy enough (I'm using docker compose), but I can't make it recognize tv shows properly. The metadata lookup works for movies, though.

For tv shows, it returns a (seemingly) random tv show and assigns it to all tv shows in my library. So I end up with many instances of the same show in the UI. If I change the metadata source from TheMovieDB to TheTVDB I end up with a different show, but with the same result: Every show in my library is assigned to the same invalid metadata.

I can select shows and manually identify it, but that's really cumbersome for a big libary.

If also tried the same with Emby and I don't get the same error there.

I've also tried to but a tvshow.nfo file into folders to help the lookup, but it doesn't seem to be recognized at all.

I know I can put metadata on the folder name of a series (like the show id of themoviedb), but I really don't want to do this, as I have another mediaserver server (Kodi) the same library to my Smart-TV. It would mess up that libary - also: Emby seems to be able to do the lookup correctly, so why wouldn't Jellyfin?

I know about this page: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/

My library is mostly structured this way:

Show_name/
Show_name/S01 
Show_name/S01/S01E01.mkv

(I don't think the "S01" part is the problem, I tried to rename to "Season 1" without success)

Any ideas what could be the problem here?

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[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

What you linked gives a really clear naming convention and yours doesn't follow it.

[-] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, I suspected that. But I've also tried to change that already, to no avail.... :-(

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Have you told the library to rescan after making the change?

[-] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

yes I have. still thanks for the question, I tend to forget about obvious stuff like that... :)

[-] guerda@ruhr.social 1 points 1 month ago

@ryan_harg "Do not abbreviate the Season folder with S01 or SE01 or alike."

[-] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

As I wrote, I've already tried to change that, but it gives me the same result.

[-] guerda@ruhr.social 1 points 1 month ago

@ryan_harg that was difficult to read from your post for me.

Have you got all show folders in the same as the movies? Is your library folder in Jellyfin setup as show (I assume so, just to double check)

[-] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

I have multiple folders with movies and multiple folders with tv shows. Each folder is imported as either "movie only" or "tv show only"...

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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