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Organizing - Just a Bunch of Files - iAmEhead - 2024-12-24
Been researching this and it seems like it's a recurring topic... I have some videos from some shows that are just randomly named. As an example... I have a bunch of Al-Jazeera and NHK shows just all in a folder, some Frontline episodes, American Experience, etc...
TinyMediaManager and Jellyfin will grab the artwork for some of these shows, but bungles the seasons and episodes.
What I'm trying to figure out is... how to get Jellyfin to just read nfo files for metadata and nothing else.
My plan is to throw all these recalcitrant shows/videos into their own library folder and create a python script that creates a nfo file for each episode, setting them all to Season 1, and the episode number in file order. The problem is it seems like Jellyfin sometimes overrides the nfo files, and comes up with it's own Season/episode numbers based on the filename. (EDIT: Closer inspection suggests that filenames with years in them are particularly problematic. A lot of these are news/history shows... so have names with famous dates like 1066, 1920, 1945, 2008, ect. in them).
Is there some way to force Jellyfin to only use nfo files for Season/Episodes/Show data, and just ignore what it finds in the filename? Example... even if I put files with 1066 in a Season 01 folder, JF will think they are Season 10. I'm averse to renaming the files simply because it's kind of handy having the name of the episode/show in the filename.
Any tips appreciated. I'm on Android TV, which doesn't seem to have as many view settings as regular Android.