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?
What you linked gives a really clear naming convention and yours doesn’t follow it.
Yes, I suspected that. But I’ve also tried to change that already, to no avail… :-(
Have you told the library to rescan after making the change?
yes I have. still thanks for the question, I tend to forget about obvious stuff like that… :)