Shows importing titles as my username

[rmills]

I setup my first jellyfin server on a windows 11 machine last month to try it out and everything is perfect. I setup a new jellyfin server on ubunutu 24.04 thats running on proxmox. I have a 16TB drive in passthrough to the VM. Keeping the same working structure I moved all my media (movies and shows) to the new drive. That drive is also shared with samba, so jellyfin has the extra group permissions both for samba and it being mounted as an external drive. From that standpoint everything works perfectly. The movies all imported perfectly. However TV shows seem bugged, on the initial scan its setting the title as my username, maybe pulled from the path. The full path to shows is /media/myusername/S1/MediaServer/TV Shows and every show imported has the title "myusername". Again the shows are in a proper folder structure (TV Shows/Modern Family/Season 1/modern family s01e01.mp4)

For clarity
my movies library path is: /media/myusername/S1/MediaServer/Movies
my shows library path is: /media/myusername/S1/MediaServer/TV Shows
example full path to show: /media/myusername/S1/MediaServer/TV Shows/Modern Family/Season 1/modern family s01e01.mp4


Movies import perfectly. Shows is bugged, my best guess its using the full root path and assuming the 2nd segment (myusername) is the show title when it should be relative to the folder path to the library.
I compared my library settings from my original windows 11 to the ubuntu and everything is the same. Did I miss a setting or has someone seen this before?

[rmills]

Too make this even more confusing, 3 out of about 100 shows imported correctly and I'm not sure why. I can't see anything different with them than the rest.

[rmills]

I don't really know what is happening under the hood but looking at the logs the only thing I see standing out is this, and wondering if ffprobe is the issue, im using the default APT install for ubuntu. Maybe its something in there.

[2025-05-25 10:56:34.763 -07:00] [INF] Starting "/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffprobe" with args "-analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -i file:\"/media/aduser/S1/MediaServer/TV/The UNIT/Season 1 (2006)/The UNIT - S01 E02 - Stress (720p Web-DL).mp4\" -threads 0 -v warning -print_format json -show_streams -show_format"
[2025-05-25 10:56:34.799 -07:00] [INF] Starting "/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffprobe" with args "-analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -i file:\"/media/aduser/S1/MediaServer/TV/The UNIT/Season 1 (2006)/The UNIT - S01 E02 - Stress (720p Web-DL).mp4\" -threads 0 -v warning -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format"
[2025-05-25 10:56:34.834 -07:00] [INF] Starting "/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffprobe" with args "-analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -i file:\"/media/aduser/S1/MediaServer/TV/The UNIT/Season 1 (2006)/The UNIT - S01 E02 - Stress (720p Web-DL).srt\" -threads 0 -v warning -print_format json -show_streams -show_format"
[2025-05-25 10:56:35.099 -07:00] [INF] Removing virtual season null in series "aduser"
[2025-05-25 10:56:35.099 -07:00] [INF] Removing item, Type: "Season", Name: "Season Unknown", Path: "", Id: 33b65aff-d7b2-98f8-9599-1ccf267de5d5

[rmills]

So the ones I thought imported correctly did not, they just had folder images in their folders. I ended up just identifying all of them by hand and will likely have to always do that till I figure it out. The folder paths are correct, its just the title not getting parsed correctly. I thought maybe a permissions issue with ffmpeg but movie import correctly with the same permissions. I also could not find any other bug reports that are related so its likely a setting but I have no idea what.

[theguymadmax]

Most likely recognizing S1 as season 1 as S1 is a vaild name for season 1 in Jellyfin. Rename that folder that's not something S1, S2, etc...

[rmills]

Ohh, fair point. I assumed since that was outside of the path it would ignore that. Not a trivial change at this point but I might just see what happens. Thou I wonder if that might be a bug, if the library path is the base path (/media/myusername/S1/MediaServer/Movies), and the show is the folder path (/Modern Family/Season 1/modern family s01e01.mp4) it should be parsing the folder path not the full path. Not sure what condition you would want it to parse the full path vs the folder path. Also the "supported" or "suggested" folder structure is not meant search so many folders deep. I assume the database is going to store the full path but it would be as simple as slicing off the base path before parsing.