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Jellyfin overwriting metadata? - scheater5 - 2023-10-09
Hey, brand new to the forum - I've tried to do some searching but I couldn't find anything, so excuse me if I've violated forum etiquette.
Jellyfin is doing a pretty great job of scraping data, especially if I make sure the filenames are up to snuff including tvdb and youtube metadata plugins. But if it misses anything, I cannot add or change it. Jellyfin just keeps rewriting the metadata to whatever it was before. I have some youtube shows that I'd like the seasons to be named something specific instead of "Season 1" or "Season 2020", I can change the name on the Jellyfin server, and it will change back to "Season 1" in just a couple minutes. If I change the nfo file, Jellyfin just overwrites it. If I "lock" the metadata, Jellyfin unlocks it. If I edit the nfo to be <lockdata>true, Jellyfin unlocks it. For a while I thought it was only if I manually refreshed metadata, but no, it does it no matter what I do after a couple minutes.
I'm thoroughly confused. How can I edit metadata and have it stick?
RE: Jellyfin overwriting metadata? - maopequena - 2024-04-13
I'm also having this problem. Can anyone help us?
RE: Jellyfin overwriting metadata? - TheDreadPirate - 2024-04-14
One thing you can do is make the NFOs read only for the jellyfin user.