Seasons are off for one show

[pingpongballs]

I just got a folder set up for a TV show. I organized the files into seasons even though the initial download was not organized this way. (It downloaded all to one folder.)

When Jellyfin scanned it, it got the seasons screwed up. Some seasons have different episodes, a bunch of episodes are labeled "Special", etc etc. It completely butchered the series.

I can't figure out what's wrong with it though. The folder structure is all correct, I don't have any duplicate files -- I'm thinking the metadata on the files themselves is messed up. Is there a way to override wherever it's getting this mistaken info from, and to just have it use my directory structure to get the correct season listings?

None of my other shows have had this issue so I'm stumped!

[Emailluka]

if you click on the show in jellyfin and select the three dots, you can click "identify" and find the correct show.

try to find the tvshow on themoviedb.org and see how the seasons and episodes are structured there - some shows have a different type of sorting than f.ex. imdb (which likes to group some series together)

[pingpongballs]

if you click on the show in jellyfin and select the three dots, you can click "identify" and find the correct show.

try to find the tvshow on themoviedb.org and see how the seasons and episodes are structured there - some shows have a different type of sorting than f.ex. imdb (which likes to group some series together)

Unfortunately this didn't fix it... switched between moviedb and theopenmovie and I still have a ton of episodes listed as "special" and a bunch out of order.

Is there a way to get this specific show to ignore the DB / episode metadata? Everything is organized appropriately in folders and I even have each episode numbered correctly in the titles of the files. I have no idea why it's duplicating these files on Jellyfin with different names.

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you provide examples of the folder and file names and how they are organized?

[Emailluka]

or maybe you used some special characters in naming (like f.ex. "-")?
take a look at the naming schemes here:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows

[pingpongballs]

Can you provide examples of the folder and file names and how they are organized?

Yeah of course. Structure is as follows:

Yu-Gi-Oh!
    - Specials
    - Season 0
    - Season 1
        - Yu-Gi-Oh! - 001 - The Heart Of The Cards  [DarkDream].mkv
        - Yu-Gi-Oh! - 002 - The Gauntlet Is Thrown  [DarkDream].mkv
        - etc.

So I'm having a couple different issues. 1, a bunch of episodes show up as "Special" at the top of each season, putting them out of order. There's also duplicates (One with metadata name, one with the file name) -- ie, when I open season 1, at the top is a bunch of episodes that SHOULD be numbered but are instead listed as specials. "Special - Arena of Lost Souls (1)" instead of Episode 17, but then if I scroll down I can find "17. Arena of Lost Souls (1)" (which is the correct numbering).

Lemme know if there's something I gotta change!

[theguymadmax]

Which metadata provider are you using? The episode and season numbers need match the metadata provider you're using. For example the default TMDB scraper, the naming structure should look something like this:

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000) 
├── Season 00 
│  ├── S00E01.mkv 
│  ├── S00E02.mkv 
│  ├── S00E03.mkv 
│  └── S00E04.mkv 
└── Season 01 
    ├── S01E01.mkv 
    ├── S01E02.mkv 
    └── ... 
    └── S01E224.mkv