2025-06-30, 08:56 AM
Personally, I would use the Show library type and do all the metadata stuff by hand.
When you add it as a show, add them as you normally would with a "season folder" too named however you want.
Since this is custom, Jellyfin will add them displayed a bit randomly due to the nature of what you're doing.
Just edit the season folder's metadata using the GUI. Likewise, give each file your desired season and episode number to sort them to your liking.
At the end of this, just lock the metadata for the "show" level. Locking metadata is recursive, so it will lock all things under the item you locked.
Locking metadata means that anything you filled in will not be changed (locked).
Note that locking metadata doesn't lock unfilled sections.
So if you were to ever have metadata providers enabled and Jellyfin somehow matches your videos to some random show/movie, Jellyfin will attempt to fill in the remaining empty metadata fields.
That's how I would handle this, but I believe others would recommend you to use the home video library type.
Up to you on how you want to proceed.
When you add it as a show, add them as you normally would with a "season folder" too named however you want.
Since this is custom, Jellyfin will add them displayed a bit randomly due to the nature of what you're doing.
Just edit the season folder's metadata using the GUI. Likewise, give each file your desired season and episode number to sort them to your liking.
At the end of this, just lock the metadata for the "show" level. Locking metadata is recursive, so it will lock all things under the item you locked.
Locking metadata means that anything you filled in will not be changed (locked).
Note that locking metadata doesn't lock unfilled sections.
So if you were to ever have metadata providers enabled and Jellyfin somehow matches your videos to some random show/movie, Jellyfin will attempt to fill in the remaining empty metadata fields.
That's how I would handle this, but I believe others would recommend you to use the home video library type.
Up to you on how you want to proceed.