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Problem with detection of shows - Galaxyraider20 - 2025-05-22

Here's the basic structure of my setup. I'm running proxmox on my computer. On proxmox -> Linux VM -> docker -> jellyfin. I'm using the docker-compose to run jellyfin. And I navigated the media folder correctly. Inside my media folder my file structure looks like media/Shows/The Big Bang Theory/Season 01/[episode name S01E01].mkv. the full path is mnt/nasdata/data/media/Shows/The Big Bang Theory/Season 01/

I started jellyfin and created a library called shows and mapped it to Shows. I have two things there The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. And one episode each inside

However when Looking at jellyfin, under shows I can only see one of them(seems to be random which one) and inside that show it's just empty. (all screenshots attached)
However I can see the episodes in recently added.

I have tried everything and cannot get jellyfin to detect these shows properly. Been at this for the last 5-6 hours. Any help would be appreciated a lot!!!!

ps: I'm setting up a homelab for the first time so pretty new to this stuff.

   
   
   

[2025-05-22 04:38:52.348 +00:00] [INF] [26] Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager: Removing item, Type: "Series", Name: "The Big Bang Theory", Path: "/media/tv-shows/The Big Bang Theory", Id: 6b12dd77-80a5-1fad-f0dd-ae971cd7a8f8
this was in the logs


RE: Problem with detection of shows - bitmap - 2025-05-22

Try changing names to follow the guidelines in the Jellyfin docs. The odd things I spot are the colons, the lack of zero padding for season and episodes, and (possibly) the space-hyphen-space naming convention which can confuse the hell out of Jellyfin on occasion.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/

One thing that seems to make a lot of difference for folks is adding the show ID to the series folder (no need for seasons).


RE: Problem with detection of shows - theguymadmax - 2025-05-22

TMDB is blocked in India.  Download the TVDB plugin from the catalog and set that as the preferred metadata source in your library.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-solved-media-identification?pid=35198#pid35198