Yesterday, 10:50 PM
(2025-07-21, 01:59 AM)user5621 Wrote: Mixing your movies and shows in one library isn't helping with the matching of the metadata, you'll have better luck if you keep your movies and shows each in their own library. That way it won't try to match shows as movies or vice versa.
You REALLY shouldn't have to edit the IMBD ID for each episode. Did you try going to the main screen for a show, click the three dots on the right, click identify, and then search for Shogun or whatever the show is click the correct one and then it should fix the metadata without you editing every episode.
If it still doesn't match make sure your files have the correct naming structure and folder layout ie. TV Shows/Futurama/Season 1/Futurama - S01E01 - Space Pilot 3000
You can bulk edit the metadata with third party tools like tinymediamanager but you would have to be using .nfo files and it's really more useful for videos you have besides movies and tv shows.
telling me that im doing it wrong isnt helping at all.
like i said, plex does this trivially with no effort on my part. it 'just gets it'. it's unfortunate that jellyfin doesn't also have this feature.
also using third party tools to edit the show outside of jellyfin is not a viable solution as it still mandates that i will have to do that 100% of the time.
this post was a feature request for jellyfin to improve its polish, not one to solicit advice on how i should change things to avoid the feature request.
and again, lastly, since it seems unclear: the ability to mass-identify media items with an imdb id or to mass-select them and switch them to "shows" from "inherit" would go a very long way to making this a lot easier to deal with.
if all the files for a given show are in one directory (which is often the case under the hood), then jellyfin will group them together into a folder, even if it has trouble identyfing them. if at that point it was possible to say "take everything in this folder, and give it this imdb id, and categorize it as a show", it would reduce the manual labor to a few seconds, from several days. it's not a complete fix for the mis-classification issue, but its a massive massive improvement in the workflow.