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playback - Stepping Stones Of Faith - 2025-06-20
jellyfin is showing correct metadata playing wrong video files. this is how I name my files: Plex Backup (E
\Plex - Star Trek TV Series\Star Trek (1966)\Season 1\Star Trek S01 E01. I named the whole series that way in order. Jellyfin will play a totally different episode from somewhere within the three seasons and I cannot figure out why...I checked if the shuffle feature was on and it wasn't. I made sure my naming structure was correct for jellyfin to fetch the correct videos. That seems to be correct with everything that I have read and checked. What is curious is that each time I play say for example episode 1, it will consistently play the same wrong video file with the correct metadata for Episode 1. Not sure what the issue could be can anyone help?
RE: playback - user5621 - 2025-07-20
So I see you have Star Trek in the folder name twice, generally you would want to do your folders like E:\TV Shows\Star Trek (1966)\Season 1\Star Trek - S01E01 - The Man Trap The space you have between the season and episode number is very unusual that may be whats messing it up.
I would try renaming it like that at least one season and rescan and see if that fixes it.
Is it just the first episode playing wrong or all of them? It consistently plays the same wrong one because it's matching the metadata incorrectly once when first scanned and saving that info.
If renaming the folders and rescanning doesn't work you can try going to Star Trek in the browser on your server and clicking the three dots on the right and click identify you can then search for Star Trek and click the correct one, it is in there twice so one may be different from the other. Though I think the problem is probably in how they are named.
If it's just a couple episodes wrong it could have been labeled wrong originally and they are different episodes in each file than you think.