Group Series Episode

[Venson]

This guide is written for 10.8.10.

As the official documentation does not explain this in great detail here a few infos.

Prerequesites:

Your media is correctly named.
To make this work, the same as with movies your media files must be correctly named. 

Examples for correct naming on multiple versions of an episode are:


/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - AnyFlagLike60fps.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - Or 4K.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - Or - Multiple.mkv


For ease of use, please put all versions alongside the same folder. Jellyfin does work best when multiple versions of the same episode are located within the same library path. 

After all those episodes are located by jellyfin, they will shown as separate episodes. To group them together, use the default WebUI and open the First season of the episodes you want to group. Then go into the detail view of the first episode of that season. Scroll down to the section displaying the following episodes of that same season, titles "More from Season X". In that list, long-left click on the first episode you want to group for about 3 seconds. This will select the episode, after that use a normal left click to select the 2nd episode you want the first episode to group with. After you have selected all episodes to group, use the hamburger menu (the 3 dots) to the upper right corner of the website and use the "Group Versions" menu item.

The episodes are now grouped together and will be shown as a list to select from when you open the detail view of that episode the next time you open it. The UI does not immediately refresh so you have to leave and reenter the season list to see it.

[geminis]

yesterday i ask the same, and i figured out just by tryng. Like to add :
1.- First folder inside series folder is: serie name
2.- Second folder inside serie name is: serie Seasson.
3.- Names of video files (correctly named) inside of series seasson are: Series chapters.
Regards.

[boffy]

How can I control the order in which Jellyfin shows each version of a given episode? With films, it's simply alphabetical, so I can easily name them to put my preferred version first. E.G.

Code:

└── Superman (1978)
    ├── Superman (1978) - 143m Theatrical Cut.mkv
    ├── Superman (1978) - 151m Expanded AKA Special Edition.mkv
    ├── Superman (1978) - 188m Extended TV Edit.mkv
└── Superman II (1980)
    ├── Superman II (1980) - Richard Donner Cut.mkv
    ├── Superman II (1980) - Theatrical Cut.mkv

This will correctly give me three options for Superman: 143m Theatrical Cut, 151m Expanded AKA Special Edition, and 188m Extended TV Edit in that order. Similarly, I have two options for Superman II labelled Richard Donner Cut or Theatrical Cut, with the former being the default.

However, in my TV folder, I have:

Code:

── Doctor Who (1963)
    ├── Season 09
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E01 Day of the Daleks 1 - 2011 SE.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E01 Day of the Daleks 1 - Original.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E02 Day of the Daleks 2 - 2011 SE.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E02 Day of the Daleks 2 - Original.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E03 Day of the Daleks 3 - 2011 SE.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E03 Day of the Daleks 3 - Original.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E04 Day of the Daleks 4 - 2011 SE.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E04 Day of the Daleks 4 - Original.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E05 Curse of Peladon 1 - BD.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E05 Curse of Peladon 1 - RSC.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E06 Curse of Peladon 2 - BD.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E06 Curse of Peladon 2 - RSC.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E07 Curse of Peladon 3 - BD.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E07 Curse of Peladon 3 - RSC.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E08 Curse of Peladon 4 - BD.mkv
    │  ├── Doctor Who S09E08 Curse of Peladon 4 - RSC.mkv
(etc.)

For each Day of the Daleks episode, I want 2011 SE to be the default version, with Original second. For the Curse of Peladon epsiodes, I want the options to be BD then RSC. However when the versions are shown separately (as by default), it seems to be random which version of each one is shown first. E.G. 3 DotD episodes have Original first, but one has 2011 SE first. Similarly, some CoP episodes have BD first, others have RSC first.

I get similarly random ordering when I merge the versions of each episode, either manually or using the Merge Versions plugin.

I've tried every permutation I can think of for the file naming - with and without the dashes, adding or removing square brackets, series name, story name, etc.. I've also tried putting my preferred versions in the folder first, letting Jellyfin index them, then adding the alternative versions: still random.

A lot of episodes of this series have multiple versions (updated effects, different restorations with different pros and cons, colour & b/w animations, telesnap reconstructions, etc.). How can I reliably get Jellyfin to put my preferred version of each first?

[TheDreadPirate]

Scroll down to the section displaying the following episodes of that same season, titles "More from Season X". In that list, long-left click on the first episode you want to group for about 3 seconds. This will select the episode, after that use a normal left click to select the 2nd episode you want the first episode to group with. After you have selected all episodes to group, use the hamburger menu (the 3 dots) to the upper right corner of the website and use the "Group Versions" menu item.

You're not going to like this answer.  In this part of the guide when you are selecting the episodes you want to group together the order you check the boxes in is the order in which they will appear in the dropdown.

Yes, it's stupid.  

[boffy]

Thanks. If you agree it’s daft, I guess I wouldn’t be wasting anyone’s time if I submitted a bugfix/feature request to make this work like movies do?

[TheDreadPirate]

I am pretty sure there is already a github issue. My understanding is that the underlying mechanisms requires some significant changes.

[SubsBware]

So it has to be formatted exactly like this?

/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - AnyFlagLike60fps.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - Or 4K.mkv
/TV/Stargate SG1/Season 1/Stargate SG1.S01.E01 - Or - Multiple.mkv

Mine is currently is..

/Shows/Showname(year)/Season 01/Showname - S01E01 - Episode Title - 480p.mkv
/Shows/Showname(year)/Season 01/Showname - S01E01 - Episode Title - 1080p.mkv

This works for my movies, but apparently not for my shows?

[TheDreadPirate]

You have to manually group the episodes with the method specified in the opening post. Jellyfin does not currently automatically merge versions for show episodes like it does for movies.

[SubsBware]

You have to manually group the episodes with the method specified in the opening post.  Jellyfin does not currently automatically merge versions for show episodes like it does for movies.

Oh gawd.. i have to do those steps for each Episode? It did work but wow, what a giant pain in the ass. Thats like 157 episodes  

Thanks

[TheDreadPirate]

You can try installing the "Merge Versions" plugin. Looking at the code, it appears to work on TV shows as well.

https://github.com/danieladov/jellyfin-p...ger.cs#L88