How do I change 'inherit' to 'shows' for media in a playlist?

[viss]

My main library is a collection of movies and shows - MOSTLY shows. Jellyfin is pretty good at letting me organize things into collections and playlists, but even at that point I still have to manually edit every individual item and change it from 'inherit' to 'shows' so that the metadata populates correctly.

For example, the recent HBO show "shogun" does not populate as a show. It populates as a japanese title for a movie called "What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister". And for shows like futurama or adventure time which have hundreds of episodes, this is a painful, grueling slog to manually go plug in the IMDB ID for each episode. 

Can we please be allowed to select 200 media files, and insert the IMDB ID for them in one place? Or select 200 files and change their content type from 'inherit' to 'shows'?

Jellyfin is fairly good at getting the metadata right, but it can't seem to tell if something is a show or a movie, and when it messes up it creates a huge mess that has to be done slowly and painfully by hand.

[user5621]

Mixing your movies and shows in one library isn't helping with the matching of the metadata, you'll have better luck if you keep your movies and shows each in their own library. That way it won't try to match shows as movies or vice versa.

You REALLY shouldn't have to edit the IMBD ID for each episode. Did you try going to the main screen for a show, click the three dots on the right, click identify, and then search for Shogun or whatever the show is click the correct one and then it should fix the metadata without you editing every episode.

If it still doesn't match make sure your files have the correct naming structure and folder layout ie. TV Shows/Futurama/Season 1/Futurama - S01E01 - Space Pilot 3000

You can bulk edit the metadata with third party tools like tinymediamanager but you would have to be using .nfo files and it's really more useful for videos you have besides movies and tv shows.

[viss]

Mixing your movies and shows in one library isn't helping with the matching of the metadata, you'll have better luck if you keep your movies and shows each in their own library.  That way it won't try to match shows as movies or vice versa.

You REALLY shouldn't have to edit the IMBD ID for each episode.  Did you try going to the main screen for a show, click the three dots on the right, click identify, and then search for Shogun or whatever the show is click the correct one and then it should fix the metadata without you editing every episode.

If it still doesn't match make sure your files have the correct naming structure and folder layout ie. TV Shows/Futurama/Season 1/Futurama - S01E01 - Space Pilot 3000

You can bulk edit the metadata with third party tools like tinymediamanager but you would have to be using .nfo files and it's really more useful for videos you have besides movies and tv shows.

telling me that im doing it wrong isnt helping at all. 
like i said, plex does this trivially with no effort on my part. it 'just gets it'. it's unfortunate that jellyfin doesn't also have this feature. 
also using third party tools to edit the show outside of jellyfin is not a viable solution as it still mandates that i will have to do that 100% of the time. 
this post was a feature request for jellyfin to improve its polish, not one to solicit advice on how i should change things to avoid the feature request.

and again, lastly, since it seems unclear: the ability to mass-identify media items with an imdb id or to mass-select them and switch them to "shows" from "inherit" would go a very long way to making this a lot easier to deal with.

if all the files for a given show are in one directory (which is often the case under the hood), then jellyfin will group them together into a folder, even if it has trouble identyfing them. if at that point it was possible to say "take everything in this folder, and give it this imdb id, and categorize it as a show", it would reduce the manual labor to a few seconds, from several days. it's not a complete fix for the mis-classification issue, but its a massive massive improvement in the workflow.

[bitmap]

this post was a feature request for jellyfin to improve its polish, not one to solicit advice on how i should change things to avoid the feature request.

This is in troubleshooting. Mixed libraries are not recommended as, with the current parsing engine, they do not work well. This is in the docs. Jellyfin does not work the same way as Plex does, for a very large number of reasons. If you would like to submit or upvote a feature request, please visit the feature requests page: https://features.jellyfin.org/.