2024-06-20, 07:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-06-20, 07:16 PM by Pandorica-Opens. Edited 2 times in total.)
(2024-06-20, 04:39 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: There is another way.
What I've been doing is not following the season numbers for one of my libraries. Mainly so I can fit specials and movies where they belong in the viewing order.
For example, lets say I have a show with two seasons and a movie that takes place between the two. I would sort it like this:
Season 1 == Season 1
Season 2 == Movie
Season 3 == Season 2
This works and plays everything in order.
The only downsides is that Jellyfin will obviously display the seasons (and movies) with incorrect season numbers, as well as having the metadata be messed up.
Basically, doing this means you're responsible for editing all the metadata manually. Just make sure to lock your edits so you don't lose them later.
Also, for the library I do this with, I have the season and episode metadata turned off specifically for that reason. I only keep the main show metadata enabled.
Sure, but as you say this would mean Season 2 now displays as season 3 ect... which would fix the "next up" problem but messes up everything else.
I'd say it's less work to manually change the metadata for the few that don't belong in a season, than it is to fix every episode that should be season 2 but is now season 3 and so on. I'm more willing to lost the next up feature than I am for the season numbers to be wrong.
If it were possible in Jellyfin designate the movie in your example as Season 1.5, then all you'd have to do is add/adjust the metadata for that movie, rather than the entire season after it. If you can already make a negative season why not a decimal?