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tv shows - seamus - 2025-08-08
I've read the documentation multiple times, and tried this in numerous ways - none of which work!
I'm using a Jellyfin version (10.10.7) on my Synology NAS. The "Movies" library works fine - it has from the beginning (for me about a month ago). However, I now have some TV shows I want to add. The docs say that tv shows should be added in a different library... so that's what I've tried to do.
Initially, I added the Shows library under the "movies" share on my SynologyNAS. The tv shows show up under movies, but the metadata is screwy. Anyway, I could not get any of the uploaded files to appear in the "shows" library. So I decided to try a dedicated share on the NAS for Shows.
I created a dedicated share on my NAS. I called it "movtvshows", and it's under "volume1" on the NAS ("movies" is also under "volume1"). IAW the docs, I created a new library w/ Content Type "Shows" in the "movtvshows" share from the "Dashboard, Libraries, Add Media Library", and named it "tvShows". I created a folder named "X Files", and a subfolder under that named "Season 4". I've uploaded a single video file (mkv) under the "Season 4" folder: "XFilesS4_2-Home C1_t01.mkv".
However, when I go to the main page of the Jellyfin webserver on Synology under "My Media", I see absolutely NOTHING in the "tvShows" media holder.
WTFIGO please? So frustrating to follow instructions, and get zilch for it - esp after it worked so intuitively initially.
RE: tv shows - bitmap - 2025-08-08
Are the permissions the same on both? That may be a difference. The other thing is that you might consider adding the tmdbid to the series folder and following naming conventions for the media file. Seems like Jellyfin either can't see the media file (permissions) or it's having issues parsing the media file (naming).
RE: tv shows - seamus - 2025-08-08
(Yesterday, 10:28 PM)bitmap Wrote: Are the permissions the same on both? That may be a difference. The other thing is that you might consider adding the tmdbid to the series folder and following naming conventions for the media file. Seems like Jellyfin either can't see the media file (permissions) or it's having issues parsing the media file (naming).
The permissions are exactly the same in both Movies (movies share) and tvShows (movtvshows share) on the Synology NAS.
WRT naming conventions, here's what I have... I thought I WAS following the naming convention... did I screw that up??:
Code:
~/volume1/movtvshows$
$ find 'X Files' -ls
262 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 seamus users 16 Aug 7 18:25 X\ Files
263 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 seamus users 52 Aug 8 17:55 X\ Files/Season\ 4
275 1967280 -rwxrwxrwx 1 seamus users 2014491903 Jul 5 12:49 X\ Files/Season\ 4/XFilesS4_2-Home\ C1_t01.mkvWhat is 'tmdbid'? I checked the movie database for the X Files... they show it, but there was no 'tmbdid' given??
Also - don't the docs say that the ids are optional?
Also - I tried using the following folder names with NO CHANGE in the results:
'X Files [tvdbid-77398]'
'X Files [imdbid-tt0106179]'
Appreciate your help, but this seems like bogus behavior; i.e. refusing to show anything at all. In the 'movies' share it always lists something.
RE: tv shows - alleycat - 2025-08-09
(Yesterday, 09:54 PM)seamus Wrote:
Try this:
volume1\
└── movtvshows\
└── The X-Files (1993) [tmdbid-4087]\
└── Season 01\
├── S01E01.mkv
├── S01E02.mkv
├── ...
└── Season 02\
├── S02E01.mkv
├── S02E02.mkv
├── ...
...
└── Season 04\
├── S04E01.mkv
├── S04E02.mkv
├── ...
etc
When you find the correct series at the themoviedb.org, the series id number is in the URL
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4087-the-x-files?language=en-US