Organizing Anime Libaries

[TheDreadPirate]

It depends on how you want your Anime to be organized.  Sources like AniDB tend to treat seasons of a show as separate shows, entirely.  If that is ok with you, AniDB is a good metadata source.  If you want all the seasons of a show to be under one listing, stick with TMDB.  But you can still use AniDB as an image provider.

As for OADs/OAVs, it depends on whether TMDB considers it a "special" of that show or as a separate listing (often a movie in this case).  Depending on how TMDB categorizes that OAD/OAV determines how you treat it.  If it is part of the same show, the special will show up under the show's "specials" season.

   

If it is a special, you would create a "specials" folder in the show's folder and name the file "s00e##".  "s00" being the syntax in Jellyfin for a special, and the episode number depending on what episode number TMDB gives a special.

Some OADs/OAVs are treated as movies.  The TMDB URL will have "tv" or "movie" in it, indicating what kind of library you should put the OAD/OAV in.

   

I'm not aware of a way for Jellyfin to identify filler episodes.