Episodes appear not to get picked up from shows that have years as seasons

[TheJellyMan]

I am really struggling trying to organize certain shows, and I think it may just be a bug in the software at this point.

I am trying to organize the show Mythbusters, which doesn't technically have "seasons", but tvdb still organizes them by year:
https://thetvdb.com/series/mythbusters#seasons

I have changed the naming scheme on the files to be S[year]E[number], i.e. S2003E01 and so on, but the episode descriptions are still not getting picked up for some reason. I even manually added the show, season folders, and the first episode of season 2003 (season 1) by tvdb id and they're still not showing up properly. 

At least the episodes are in order, so I can't complain too much, but in the screenshots below you can see that some of the episodes show up with descriptions, albeit very few.

   

   

   


For the most part Jellyfin is working nicely with my collection, but when it comes to some shows they just get stuck then there's NOTHING I can do to change them. My last resort I'm thinking of doing is to remove then re-scan my entire shows directory.

[TheJellyMan]

Jesus, I think I fixed it already.

I renamed the Season folders to Season 1, 2 and so on. Then I replaced the S[year]E[number] naming scheme to simply [season]x[episode], so 1x01, 1x02 and so on.

   

I guess that just goes to show that you shouldn't literally follow the tvdb naming scheme when it's seasons are years. Just enter them as Season 1, Season 2 and so on.
I always solve these kinds of things as soon as I make a post about them...

[229Mick]

When you did this did you get the right names for each episode? I'm trying to figure this out and when I put the episodes in folders what jellyfin reports them to be (which is completely wrong) is NEITHER what is on IMDB nor TheTVDB. I have no ide where it's pulling names from so I've resorted to populating the season folders with fake files with the S02E01 format to see what Jellyfin says they are then find the right episodes to match that. A bit combersome, and I'd rather just figure out the order it's using and name and arrange the files accordingly...

Any thoughts are appreciated.

[theguymadmax]

When you did this did you get the right names for each episode? I'm trying to figure this out and when I put the episodes in folders what jellyfin reports them to be (which is completely wrong) is NEITHER what is on IMDB nor TheTVDB. I have no ide where it's pulling names from so I've resorted to populating the season folders with fake files with the S02E01 format to see what Jellyfin says they are then find the right episodes to match that. A bit combersome, and I'd rather just figure out the order it's using and name and arrange the files accordingly...

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Which show are you having trouble with, and how did you organize & name the folders and episodes? Also, Jellyfin uses https://www.themoviedb.org as the default metadata source, so the filenames should match the listings there.

[229Mick]

Same show, Mythbusters. Looking at TMDB I see that is the lineup they're showing, so I can at least make the files I have match up with that. Thanks much!