2025-11-23, 06:33 PM
I'm guessing what happened here is your file was misidentified. Are you including release year in folder names? Are you including TMDB IDs?
A Christmas Story (1972) is animation (TMDBID 50064)
A Christmas Story (1983) is not (TMDBID 850)
What I do in these cases is right click the file in the web interface (or hit the three dots) and choose 'edit metadata', then look at the description, release year, and other metadata imported when the file was scanned. This should make it very clear if the file was identified incorrectly.
If it WAS identified incorrectly, here's the easy way to fix it for existing files: Right-click (or three dots) and choose 'Identify'. Provide the correct TMDBID for the 1983 version in the "TheMovieDb Movie Id" field (or use an IMDB ID), then click 'Search' at the bottom. It should find the right media and be obvious how to proceed from there.
For future files, include the release year in the name of the folder that contains the media - "A Christmas Story (1983)" - and it will do much better. You can also include the TMDBID in the filename if needed - "A Christmas Story (1983) [tmdbid-850]" - which will help when there are multiple pieces with the same name in a single year.
You might get a lot of benefit from reviewing the Movies naming conventions: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/ - the more you can do to make things easy for Jellyfin, the more it will make things easy for you.
A Christmas Story (1972) is animation (TMDBID 50064)
A Christmas Story (1983) is not (TMDBID 850)
What I do in these cases is right click the file in the web interface (or hit the three dots) and choose 'edit metadata', then look at the description, release year, and other metadata imported when the file was scanned. This should make it very clear if the file was identified incorrectly.
If it WAS identified incorrectly, here's the easy way to fix it for existing files: Right-click (or three dots) and choose 'Identify'. Provide the correct TMDBID for the 1983 version in the "TheMovieDb Movie Id" field (or use an IMDB ID), then click 'Search' at the bottom. It should find the right media and be obvious how to proceed from there.
For future files, include the release year in the name of the folder that contains the media - "A Christmas Story (1983)" - and it will do much better. You can also include the TMDBID in the filename if needed - "A Christmas Story (1983) [tmdbid-850]" - which will help when there are multiple pieces with the same name in a single year.
You might get a lot of benefit from reviewing the Movies naming conventions: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/ - the more you can do to make things easy for Jellyfin, the more it will make things easy for you.