Wrong Meta Data keeps linking to Properly Labeled Video

[jravin]

ah ok found that... ya i had to type the title and year  and then it found 4 linked to deck the halls.. as deck the halls 2006 went to the 2005 version first then went to the deck the halls down cherry lane  2024

do you know why its doing that its not finding the correctly  or it doesnt do like plex if it cant find it  it just leaves it as unknown at the time...  here this one just shoves any title in.. is there a way to if it cant find the exact year and name  to leave it.. and not stick a random name in? 

as i guessing  ill have to do this with all my videos check them one by one if they are the right title

The solution has multiple approaches happening at the same time.

FIRST
Proper file naming conventions.  READ the following, then go through all of your media files and fix them.  (Actually, read this entire response before reading these.  That way you will see the IMDB stuffs, which will then hopefully make more sense when you are reading the Jellyfin Documentation.)

• Movies | Jellyfin
  
• TV Shows | Jellyfin
  

SECOND
Using the Identify feature, include as much information as you can.

For example:
Go to: Deck the Halls (2006) - IMDb
Grab the "tt0790604" portion from the URL.  (This is unique for each film/show, hence it is good for identifying media.)
Paste that into the Identify field asking about IMDB.
Also, put the "2006" year into the Identify field asking for the year.

*But you will have read the Jellyfin Documentation above and will have updated your filenames to include the IMDB data which will then allow Jellyfin to find the correct metadata the first time around.

See Film renamed to something totally different? #5 for an example of file naming that includes IMDB identifiers in the file names.

and you dont happen to know how to fix this  A's The's  there are mixed all around  in plex  you had to edit the xml file so it sort properly

SORTING
I think if you edit the metadata for media there are "Title", "Original Title" and "Sort Title" options.  Use the "Sort Title" option to remove the "The" if you want.  You can also use it to keep movies together that may not go together based on titles, such as the "Jurassic" movies, which have movies that start with "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World", and "Jurassic World"; in the Sort Title metadata fields for these you could call them whatever you want and jellyfin will sort it accordingly.  You could sort them as "dino movie 1", "dino movie2", "dino movie 3", et cetera.