How to disable empty Seasons? (missing episode fetcher?)

[paulc]

Anything special we need to do? I ran a full scan, restarted a couple times. 10.9.8 doesn't seem to have an effect on them.

I see others have said the same at github. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pul...2241639499

[TheDreadPirate]

Most people have had to remove the affected content or straight up recreate the library.

[theguymadmax]

On 10.9.8, all you need to do is scan your library and select replace all metadata to remove the virtual seasons from your library.

[paulc]

Most people have had to remove the affected content or straight up recreate the library.

I didn't want to do that. nor, as others suggested, scan with replace metadata. 

What I did was created a batch file that created "Specials" folders in the root of all my series folders, manually ran a scan for new and updated. That created an actual path to the folder in the system instead of it being virtual. Afterwards, I then reversed my batch script and deleted the "Specials" folders to get rid of them. Luckily, all my real specials were in "Season 00" folders so I could get away with creating the Specials folder and deleting and then have Season 00 specials put back in the season. Looks like the issue is resolved.

As a side product of doing this, it appears a few library issues I was having has been solved as it picked up several items it should have had in the library but for whatever reason, weren't there.

[Iacov]

i'm still testing if it persists, but instead of replacing all meta data, it seems to work, if i select the specific season/special and select "search for missing meta data"
the empty seasons are gone - but i can't confirm if they stay away

[Iacov]

unfortunately, the "ghost-seasons" seem to return after a short while
i want to avoid to rebuild my library from the ground up, as i have a lot of tags etc set

will there be an official fix for this situation?

[TheDreadPirate]

And you disabled "Missing Episode Fetcher" from your library metadata sources?

[Iacov]

And you disabled "Missing Episode Fetcher" from your library metadata sources?

not before you asked, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. 

I did disable it and searched for missing mega data under dashboard/libraries

also repeated the step with looking for new and changed items... no difference 

the only effect that disabling the missing episode fetcher has is, that, when adding a formerly missing episode, the episode is displayed as available and as missing at the same time 

does jellyfin not scrap old or outdated metadata?

what could be the solution to the ghost-seasons without rebuilding a library?

edit: or am I missing a crucial step like a reboot or similar?

[Stellar3190]

Hey guys,

so I had this massive issue too. My library is not exactly small so it was a pain to fix it.
Here is what I did

1) Turned "Missing Episode Fetcher" off
2) Restart
3) Rescan

feel free to combine 1)-3) in any iteration. Nothing worked. They seem to be gone, but reappear after a Full Library Scan.
The only thing that fixed it, for me wat least, was 1 of 2 things:

A) Rebuild series. Straight up. Horrible and super annoying, but that fixed it permanently.
B) Like @paulc a couple of posts up suggested: write a script that creates a "Specials" folder in every series in your library. Then run a full metadata scan. It should populate with a "season.nfo". Run a full scan afterwards. Then run a script to delete every "Specials" folder. Run another full scan and everything should be fine again.

Now that only fixes issues with "Specials" folders. I had the same issue with some ghost seasons. There I had to follow the same logic and create a folder manually, let it scan into the metadata database and then delete it manually too. Massive pain.

Hope this helps!
Cheers

[Iacov]

A) Rebuild series. Straight up. Horrible and super annoying, but that fixed it permanently.

how do you do that? does a "replace all Metadata" scan suffice?

edit: or should i rename it to "series old" and create a new series-library?