Manual collections?

[Galin McMahon]

How do we force Jellyfin to only create collections when told to?  Collections are great but Jellyfin is a bit heavy-handed.  For example, I have the 3 Austin Powers movies.  I don't want them in a collection.  Yet Jellyfin has put them into a collection.  Twice.  I have 2 collections side by side with the same movies yet I never put them into the collections or even created the collections.  Another example is I have Friday the 13th and I have the Ice Cube Friday movies.  Jellyfin keeps putting Next Friday into a collection with Friday the 13th.  I remove them from the collections over and over but Jellyfin keeps recreating them.  I definitely don't want to disable collections because they are great, especially for movie series that don't start with the same word, ie Indiana Jones / Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Or when there are many movies such as the Charlie Chaplin collection which has like 15 that I wouldn't want to have to scroll through all the time.  So how do we prevent automatic collections?

Doing some more poking around with the Friday issue, it seems that Jellyfin decides what the movie is without even considering anything else. I have Friday in my folder as 'Next Friday (2000) [tmdbid-10471] (both the folder and the mkv file.) I can go into the metadata and put the IMDB and TMDB IDs in there. But Jellyfin just ignores the IDs and instead uses the metadata from Friday the 13th part 2...the description, the genres, the actors. And then it files it away with the Friday the 13th collection I don't want.

Is this a bug? This is pretty significant because organization is everything when you have a collection.

[bjp]

In the web admin interface, go to Dashboard -> Libraries -> Libraries, then click on the three vertical dots on your movie library/libraries and select 'Manage Library'. Scroll down, and make sure "Automatically add to collection" is NOT checked. Go to the 'Collections' library and select 'Manage Library' under the three vertical dots, and in there make sure "Automatically refresh metadata from the internet" is set to never.

Go to Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks and scroll down to the bottom, 'TMDB' section. Click on 'Scan library for new box sets', and click the red circle on the right to remove the default 'Every 24 hours' schedule for this task.

That should limit automatic creation of collections while allowing you to create your own as needed.

[Galin McMahon]

In the web admin interface, go to Dashboard -> Libraries -> Libraries, then click on the three vertical dots on your movie library/libraries and select 'Manage Library'. Scroll down, and make sure "Automatically add to collection" is NOT checked. Go to the 'Collections' library and select 'Manage Library' under the three vertical dots, and in there make sure "Automatically refresh metadata from the internet" is set to never.

Go to Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks and scroll down to the bottom, 'TMDB' section. Click on 'Scan library for new box sets', and click the red circle on the right to remove the default 'Every 24 hours' schedule for this task.

That should limit automatic creation of collections while allowing you to create your own as needed.

Thank you for replying.  My Jellyfin settings are as you suggested.  However, I can't find the TMDB in Scheduled Tasks.  I have an Application section, a Library section and a Maintenance section.  None seem to refer to TMDB anywhere.  I do have the TMDB plugin installed and have checked those settings but they're different...