Getting correct episodes

[ajp_anton]

I'm having trouble getting Jellyfin to show the correct episodes. The show in question is DuckTales, the 2017 version.

At first Jellyfin defaulted to the 1987 version. I then set all the IDs to the 2017 version in both the show settings and the season settings, and refreshed with "replace all metadata". After that the show and season info all got the correct 2017 metadata, but the episodes' metadata were all still from the 1987 version. I tried wiping some metadata manually and refreshing, but Jellyfin repopulated all fields with 1987 metadata.

Then I tried changing the display order from Aired to DVD (which is what I would want anyway), refreshed, and suddenly all episodes switched over to the 2017 version. I don't know why this triggered the change and not anything I did before, but at least it's progress.

However, although they now have the correct show, the order is not DVD, but Aired. No matter which display order I choose, Jellyfin keeps showing the Aired order. What's going on? Why is it so difficult to change the show ID in the first place, and why does it fail to show the order I choose?

[TheDreadPirate]

Try this. Move the folder outside of your library, rescan to remove it from the library. Change the folder name to include the TMDB ID. Add "[tmdbid-72350]" to the end of the folder name. Move it back into the library folder and rescan.

[ajp_anton]

Well, that seems to more easily/automatically solve the problem I did solve in the end, but it doesn't solve the problem I keep having.

Also, the problem I did solve shouldn't be as difficult as it was, should it? The functionality to manually identify a show is there, but it leaves the show in a state where the show and its episodes are different.

[ajp_anton]

Actually, that folder rename trick doesn't work for another series: Frasier (2023). Having the folder name be my original "Frasier 2023", or trying names like "Frasier [tmdbid-195241]" with or without the space, it will always get identified as the original Frasier series from 1993.

Again, I can identify it manually, but even though the show itself will immediately change to what I choose it to be, the episodes will get stuck in 1993. Only after I change the display order (doesn't matter what, as long as I change it) will it trigger a change of the episodes as well.

[TheDreadPirate]

I've found that sometimes metadata gets stuck or something and I just have to remove the affected show/movie. It's difficult to replicate and nothing is logged to troubleshoot that problem.

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Actually, that folder rename trick doesn't work for another series: Frasier (2023). Having the folder name be my original "Frasier 2023", or trying names like "Frasier [tmdbid-195241]" with or without the space, it will always get identified as the original Frasier series from 1993.

Again, I can identify it manually, but even though the show itself will immediately change to what I choose it to be, the episodes will get stuck in 1993. Only after I change the display order (doesn't matter what, as long as I change it) will it trigger a change of the episodes as well.

Try both the year and TMDB ID.

Frasier (2023) [tmdbid-195241]