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TV series not detected - gizmomelb - 2025-01-11
Hi all,
I've just noticed that one tv series I have on my NAS is not detected / listed in the Jellyfin metadata.
The series is '100 Things to Do Before High School' and was created and then had files renamed etc. correctly by {app we don't talk about - TDP}, there is no '.ignore' or similar file in the folder. The TV series metadata has theTVDB as the primary source and the series exists on TVDB - series ID 288148 - https://thetvdb.com/series/100-things-to-do-before-high-school
This is the only tv series not in the Jellyfin metadata - I've tried re-creating the folder, touching the files, done at least half a dozen metadata scans (including a full re-scan) and it is never added.
Has anyone else had this issue (with this series)? Thank you.
RE: TV series not detected - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-11
How did the files and folders get named?
Can you share your logs via pastebin?
RE: TV series not detected - theguymadmax - 2025-01-11
I've observed that titles with numbers are often misidentified when using the TVDB plugin. To avoid this, you should include the IMDb ID in the folder name, like this: 100 Things to Do Before High School (2015) [imdb-tt3904078].
RE: TV series not detected - gizmomelb - 2025-01-11
thanks theguymadmax - adding the tvdb id to the folder name helped identify and scan the folder to add metadata - but somehow it also resulted in a different folder (unknown as yet, I'll need to audit in the morning) being removed from the jellyfin database (there are 851 folders and both before and after there are 850 listed in jellyfin's interface).
ie: 100 Things to Do Before High School (2015) [tvdbid-288148]
RE: TV series not detected - gizmomelb - 2025-01-12
ok, I installed the JELLYFIN REPORTS plugin and that allowed me to export a list of all movies, as well as TV series - though a gotcha is that if you have anime tv series or movies, they are ALSO included in this report - so my initial tv series was higher than I had folders, then I realised the difference between the two was how many anime series Ihad (added in another folder grouping on my NAS).
From running the reports I was able to filter and see under REPORTS / FILTER / MANAGEMENT / MISSING OVERVIEW - and it listed a folder I have in the TV folder on my NAS which is not recognised by any metadata scraper (and no surprise as it was a collection of videos from a youtube channel). So by doing this I was able to confirm I have no missing shows or movies in my Jellyfin database.
(initially I was running SQL queries on copies of the jellyfin.db and library.db database files to try to find the missing metadata, it works but it's a lot of copying / pasting data to text file, sorting etc.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to the 10.11.0 database re-factorisation.