Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

So I recently-ish upload ST: Deep Space 9 into my Jellyfin (kind of love falling asleep watching it) and some episodes are doubled.

For example in season 4 Jellyfin fetched the metadata for the episode 9 (our men Bashir) and put it on the episode 9 and 10. Now after 10 the episodes are sync on the one before them. It slightly annoying.

I checked the naming convention for the file, seems in order Tried to refresh the metadata, to no avail Reboot the server, didn’t work Only permit Jellyfin to fetch metadata from IMDB, nope

I’m at lost, any idea ?

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thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Jellyfin is terrible with metadata, im looking for a solution too

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- TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We have one
  
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- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yea, it’s pretty bad. Keeps matching to Asian stuff when everything is named correctly.
  
  Wish I could filter it to say “it’s never anime, it’s never Asian”
  
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AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Try using the IMDB tag directly on the file name for E10, ie. StarTrekDSNineS04E10[imdbid-tt0708549].mkv

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- TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Will try
  
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  - AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s all we can do sometimes…
    
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solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’ve solved it by now but this Jellyfin doc article was helpful for me, beginning with the section Naming.

jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

There at similar guides for TV Shows, Music, Books and other mixed media.

There are also guides for “stacking” multi-segment media titles, for example Lord of the Rings movies which come on several discs.

Jellyfin can be a bit opinionated about detecting bad metadata. The override tags in the media data filename or folder name can help clean that up. In fact, I’ve started hard-coding those [tmdbid=…] tags in my encoding workflow because I’m just so damned tired of fighting with the metadata feature.

Hope it works form you,.too.

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Kirk@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Falling asleep watching TNG or Voyager I can understand, but every moment of DS9 must be savored. You sir are worse than Gul Dukat.

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- Xulai@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Blasphemy! It is only Babylon 5 that is worthy of such scrutiny.
  
  ~*after you suffer through the first season~
  
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  - CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ve given it like half a dozen tries and can’t get through the first season of Babylon 5. Maybe the 7th time is the charm after I finish Dark Matter.
    
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- TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  😂
  
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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I use Sonarr.

Even if you rip your media, it’s just really good at organizing your media files when you “import” them, plus it can fetch the metadata itself and put it into NFO files, which Jellyfin can both read from and write to, if you enable it. This allows for faster library scans and effectively eliminates the issue of mis-identified episodes/shows.

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