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?

  • tobogganablazeEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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

    https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/Movies

    Kodi supports the same “{sourceid-xxxx}” tag syntax as jellyfin or plex, so it wouldn’t mess anything up.

      • tobogganablazeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        In that case, I’d just stick to fixing it by hand.

        I have a around 600 TV shows in my library and only had to manually match a dozen or so.

        • Ryan@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I fear that will be what I have to do. I’m just so confused why Emby seems to have no problem at allwith it, but Jellyfin does… Not a single show is automatically assigned correctly.