Meta

[The Mike]

I have a show from YouTube, where some of the movies are already shown with proper thumbnail and description, while other doesn't.

When i edit the meta data, does it go into the movie or just a jellyfin data file?

If I manually edit the meta info, can it dissappear when I try to refresh meta data across all movies and shows?

[TheDreadPirate]

Jellyfin does not modify your media files. Any changes are saved to Jellyfin's data directory and/or database.

Depending on which refresh type you select can affect existing metadata different. The standard "update" refresh will only look for new items.

[The Mike]

I accidently screwed up my meta data for my shows.

I somehow searched with metadata, so it screwed up my entire season.

The episodes had an automatically like 1,2,3.

When I searched for meta changes it removed the numerals, and I could not make the numbers return.

Then I moved the season folder to somewhere else, then returned it again.

Then I noticed that all info I've written has been removed. How to move items without losing all the info? If I one day have to move my movies to another drive where I've made my custom text, then everything gets removed?

I have files thats like this:

https://i.ibb.co/hf9yMsB/jelly1.jpg

These has no metadata, my images are my own from thumbnails. But if I move these files then titles and descriptions are lost.

However, this one is permanent, because it is directly into the file:

https://i.ibb.co/Pz9Y8dK/jelly2.png

If I move this file around then it will always remember what was written in it.

How do I make this change to all my files?

It is worthless to manually add your metadata to your files, because if you move your files then EVERYTHING is gone.

[The Mike]

So I found out this is actually possible.

Use mp3tag. Even though it says mp3, it also works with movie files.

[TheDreadPirate]

I'm not sure if "locking" the metadata works when you move files around. I think it will still honor the lock.

Your other option is to use NFOs to provide your metadata, but you'd need to disable ALL metadata providers in the library to ensure that Jellyfin makes no attempts to scrape online DBs for metadata. If you have other shows that need online metadata, you either need to use an external tool to pull down metadata and write NFOs (Tiny Media Manager), or keep your "local metadata only" shows in a separate library from your "online metadata" shows.