2024-05-16, 12:44 PM
I have a library of short video clips set up as Shows, mostly because that gives the organisational structure I want the media to be displayed in (high-level category -> more specific categories). I have folder structure similar to this:
Science
--Physics
----video1.mp4
--Space
----video2.mp4
----video3.mp4
Misc
--Language
----english.mp4
--Outdoors
----waterfall1.mp4
What I want in Jellyfin (and Swiftfin, which is why I'm using Shows instead of mixed movies/shows) is for someone to go to this library, pick a topic, and then get videos. I don't need to have two levels of topics, that's only to accommodate the requirements for a Shows library, I'd be perfectly happy with just one topic level. But I do want it to be usable in Swiftfin, which means I'm limited to Movies or Shows until Swiftfin allows using a mixed movies/shows library or a music videos library.
In general, this is working fairly well. The top-level folder is shown as the "show" name, and the videos are shown according to their metadata, and I can edit either one in the UI and have the changes persist. What's not working so well is the "seasons". In the folder structure above I would have a "show" called "Misc" and "seasons" called "Language" and "Outdoors". Except every time the library is scanned, the seasons are all changed to be "Season Unknown". I can't seem to stop that from happening, I've even gone into the metadata editor and selected the option to lock any further changes but Jellyfin still insists on changing the names of the second level to "Season Unknown". All metadata downloaders are off and it's set to never update from the Internet. How can I stop this from happening? Or is there some way I can trick Swiftfin into using a mixed movies/shows or music video library?
Science
--Physics
----video1.mp4
--Space
----video2.mp4
----video3.mp4
Misc
--Language
----english.mp4
--Outdoors
----waterfall1.mp4
What I want in Jellyfin (and Swiftfin, which is why I'm using Shows instead of mixed movies/shows) is for someone to go to this library, pick a topic, and then get videos. I don't need to have two levels of topics, that's only to accommodate the requirements for a Shows library, I'd be perfectly happy with just one topic level. But I do want it to be usable in Swiftfin, which means I'm limited to Movies or Shows until Swiftfin allows using a mixed movies/shows library or a music videos library.
In general, this is working fairly well. The top-level folder is shown as the "show" name, and the videos are shown according to their metadata, and I can edit either one in the UI and have the changes persist. What's not working so well is the "seasons". In the folder structure above I would have a "show" called "Misc" and "seasons" called "Language" and "Outdoors". Except every time the library is scanned, the seasons are all changed to be "Season Unknown". I can't seem to stop that from happening, I've even gone into the metadata editor and selected the option to lock any further changes but Jellyfin still insists on changing the names of the second level to "Season Unknown". All metadata downloaders are off and it's set to never update from the Internet. How can I stop this from happening? Or is there some way I can trick Swiftfin into using a mixed movies/shows or music video library?