Absolute Numbering for Anime

[DizzieNight]

I am having some problems with absolute numbering and seasons for Anime, I will use Bleach as an example but I am having the same problems with One Piece and My Hero Academia.

Whenever I change the series to absolute numbering using TVdb as the metadata provider I get the episodes numbered with all of the metadata as I want. However the seasons still appear and some of the episodes have duplicated to other seasons.

For example I only have seasons 1 and 17 for bleach at the moment, still downloading the rest, but when I do absolute numbering, the season 17 episodes show in their own season, the thousand year blood war and also season 1, which is not what I want. I want it all under their indivdual seasons but with the absolute numbering or remove the seasons altogether and just have the episodes. I can do the latter with Plex but haven't been able to figure out how to do it with Jellyfin.

Btw I use sonarr for my media management and the filenames are in the following format for absolute numbering: S01E{absolute number}

[Efficient_Good_5784]

You're using an unsupported naming structure for the episodes.
You can't add absolute number to the S##E## tag if the provider(s) you're using doesn't have them sorted like that.

You have to restart the episode count in relation to the season for Jellyfin to properly sort them.

So "S01E367" would have to be renamed to "S17E01".

You have to do it exactly how your chosen metadata provider sorts them.
TVDB sorts them as I suggested: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/bleach/se...fficial/17
If you see their listing for season 17, you'll see they start the count with "S17E01".

I believe you can switch to an alternate display order by editing the metadata toggle within Jellyfin.
Just make sure your files are named and numbered correctly as seen in the metadata provider's site.

If you manage to find a metadata provider that sorts them all as season 1 using absolute episode numbers, you can enable that one provider for your library (and disable the rest) to make sure your files use the sorting method from that provider only.

I've seen people struggle to get One Piece set up with Jellyfin by doing the same thing until they switched to not use absolute episode numbering in the filename.

[DizzieNight]

I was under the impression that TVdb absolute numbering works since there is an option under seasons for absolute numbering

[DizzieNight]

I am getting the correct metadata for the episodes but I'm just wondering why non season 1 content is being put into season 1 as well as their own seasons? Is it purely got to do with my filenames? Or is it a jellyfin thing?

[theguymadmax]

I am getting the correct metadata for the episodes but I'm just wondering why non season 1 content is being put into season 1 as well as their own seasons? Is it purely got to do with my filenames? Or is it a jellyfin thing?

There's a bug with custom folder names that does this. The folder's name should be Season 01, otherwise you'll get extra folders.

Bleach (2004)
   Season 01
       S01E01.mkv
       ....
       S01E406.mkv

[DizzieNight]

I tried that now, changing S1 to S01 for the folder and the episode but same thing happens. I ended up downloading the remaining episodes and they have the same problem as well. Everything gets merged into season 1 and each season gets their own folder on jellyfin.

I tried this on Jellyfin a few versions back and it worked fine, it must be a recent bug?

[Efficient_Good_5784]

I tried that now, changing S1 to S01 for the folder and the episode but same thing happens.

Did you name it "S01"?

Try actually naming it "Season 01".

[DizzieNight]

Sorry I should've mentioned I have the folders named as "Season 01". Maybe it's just down to how Jellyfin sees the episode names as "S01" and then puts it into the season 1 section on Jellyfin and then it's own? But that shouldn't be happening

[theguymadmax]

With my naming scheme and settings, only one season is displayed:
   

Absolute ordering enabled in the show metadata:
   

The TVDB scrapers are set as the highest priority in the library settings:
   

With this naming scheme:
   

[Efficient_Good_5784]

As @theguymadmax points out, you probably just need to select "absolute" display order in the show's metadata to only get them to appear in the Season 01 folder.

If you want them separated per season, you need to switch up the naming to have the episodes not use absolute numbering.

You can get some sort of pseudo absolute numbering after sorting them to individual season counts.
Just edit their titles and include their actual episode number in the title.
That way you can read the title to know what episode number it is in relation to the whole show.