SOLVED: Jellyfin ignoring local nfos. Need recommendations.

[EatAtArbies]

You shouldn't need to disable any metadata fetchers, as local NFO files always take precedence. The issue is probably that your naming is incorrect.

Shows
├── MythBusters (2003)
│    ├── tvshow.nfo
│    ├── folder.jpg
│    ├── backdrop.jpg
│    └── Season 01
│        ├── season.nfo
│        ├── folder.jpg
│        ├── Mythbusters S01E01 Exploding Toilet.mkv
│        └── Mythbusters S01E01 Exploding Toilet.nfo


Here’s what I have in my season.nfo. I noticed you didn’t include that in your examples.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<season>
  <seasonnumber>1</seasonnumber>
  <title>Season 1</title>
  <showtitle>MythBusters</showtitle>
  <sorttitle>Season 01</sorttitle>
  <year/>
  <plot/>
  <thumb aspect="poster">https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/61PS7Mq77X7tfSTDZzzb63vjXNj.jpg</thumb>
  <tvdbid>73388</tvdbid>
  <imdbid>tt0383126</imdbid>
  <tmdbid>1428</tmdbid>
  <uniqueid type="tmdb">1428</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="tvrage">4605</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="imdb">tt0383126</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="wikidata">Q486844</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="tvdb">73388</uniqueid>
  <premiered/>
  <user_note/>
</season>

Thank you for the response.

I am marking this as the solution since this appears to be the most likely reason I was having a problem.

Note: I have not TESTED this solution as I ended up rearranging all of the episodes to line up with an alternate ordering rather than the one that came on the discs, but then I can use the scrapers.