a show called "interviews"

[df1ad]

I want to add a "show" to my Shows library that's just called interviews. The directory name for the show is also just "interviews". So if "shows" is my library folder, I have stuff like "shows/interviews/s1e1-foobar.mp4". This doesn't seem to work, jellyfin never adds the show, I'm guessing because "interviews" is one of the "extras" dir names described here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...as-folders

Seemingly the extras dirs are supposed to be within a show dir or season dir instead of at the top-level, but I'm assuming my "interviews" dir is still being ignored as a show and instead treated as an extra.

I could just change the directory name to eg "my-interviews" which does work, but actually I'm creating some shows in an automated way, mapping dir names from a db, and the title in my other db is just "interviews". So before making a special case for renaming, just wondering if there's some way to force a dir to be treated as a show. Like a ".noignore" file or something. I do add a tvshow.nfo by the way, and nfo files for episodes.

[TheDreadPirate]

Just for clarification, the library is pointed at the folder "Shows", correct? That's what it sounds like.

I was going to suggest you include the TMDB ID in the folder name to get around the "interviews" extras function, but I'm having trouble finding "Interviews" on TMDB. I found one on IMDB, but Jellyfin doesn't really use IMDB for metadata. But I think Jellyfin does use IMDB for identification.

Is this the "Interviews" you talking about?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8596744/

[df1ad]

Yes, library is pointed at "shows" directory. It's not actually on IMDB/TVDB etc, it's just a collection of unpublished videos.

[TheDreadPirate]

Ah.  Ok.  Because the shows and movies libraries are so dependent on metadata, you have to do one of the following.

1) Manually create NFOs with the metadata Jellyfin needs.  Some templates can be found here.  Your other option is to setup a test library with some of your other shows with a TMDB entry, enable NFO saver in the test library settings, and use the NFOs that Jellyfin generates as templates for your content.
2) Use the Music Videos library type.  The MV library, without additional plugins, does not retrieve online metadata and will just show the folder structure.

[df1ad]

Thanks. I already have NFOs -- the issue isn't missing metadata, it's that the show doesn't appear in the library *at all*. As soon as I change the folder name from "interviews" to "my-interviews" (or anything else), everything works, the show appears in the library and all metadata is loaded from NFOs no problem.

[TheDreadPirate]

Ideally, this would only trigger for sub-folders within a show. But, if I'm reading the code correctly, all "clean" instances of the word "interviews" will trigger the extras function. As in "interviews" isn't accompanied by any other text.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blo...ns.cs#L686
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blo...ns.cs#L160
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blo...ns.cs#L504

So it looks like you HAVE to name put SOMETHING else in the folder name to avoid triggering the rule.

You should submit a github issue asking that the extra rules only apply to sub-folders in a show.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues

[theguymadmax]

This is a known bug. You'll have to work around it for now. There is a pull request to fix this issue, that looks promising.

Edit: That looks like it just affects Library folders, not the sub-folders. Likely a separate issue, you should submit a github issue as advised by TheDreadPirate.

[df1ad]

Cool. Thanks all.

[theguymadmax]

This looks more like the issue but with a show called "Extras". Same concept.