Series don't seem to honour the date added from metadata editor

[queenbuzzo 11]

Hello,

I have searched for it but couldn't find anything that helps me. I have added some new seasons of series I had already on my Emby server and now the series are at start of the newest series list. This is all ok and works as expected I suppose. The issue is that I don't want to have them there, I would like to have only "new series" and not "series with new episodes/seasons" and have some control over it.

What I tried is to change the "date added" via the Metadata Editor, but it doesn't work. It works fine for movies however and that's why I thought it would work for series as well. 

Is there any way I can accomplish this? Is changing "date added" supposed to work for series the same as it is for movies?

Edit: I just noticed I would have to set the date added for each episode separately, setting it for just the season doesn't seem to work. That feels not right to me... is that intended to work like this?

Thanks! 

Edited August 19, 2023 by queenbuzzo

[GrimReaper 4748]

16 minutes ago, queenbuzzo said:

I just noticed I would have to set the date added for each episode separately, setting it for just the season doesn't seem to work. That feels not right to me... is that intended to work like this?

Yes, as Latest TV row shows series with latest episodes added, not latest added Shows.

Edited August 19, 2023 by GrimReaper

[queenbuzzo 11]

Ok thanks! That's a bit unfortunate and maybe a user setting would be nice, but I have found the bulk metadata editor plugin so at least I can handle it relatively quickly now.

[ALD76 26]

I have always used the TimeLordTV plugin to do this automatically but you have to pay for it.

[queenbuzzo 11]

Thanks, That's an interesting plugin, but a bit too inflexible for me I think since I don't want to change the date added for each series.

[GrimReaper 4748]

1 hour ago, queenbuzzo said:

I have found the bulk metadata editor plugin so at least I can handle it relatively quickly now.

Your TV library is one click away and you can sort it either by Date Added (actual TV Show added) or Last Episode Date Added (order that you're seeing on Home Screen); changing episode(s) Date added metadata will make those two sort orders same/redundant, and you'll never again be able to see which episode(s) you actually added last/recently.

[ebr 16187]

8 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Your TV library is one click away and you can sort it either by Date Added (actual TV Show added) or Last Episode Date Added (order that you're seeing on Home Screen); changing episode(s) Date added metadata will make those two sort orders same/redundant, and you'll never again be able to see which episode(s) you actually added last/recently.

I agree with this.  It is much more likely that you care about when an episode is added to a series rather than when the series itself was added.  I would suggest not trying to change all that episode data.

[queenbuzzo 11]

I don't really care about this information to be fair. I simply do not want to see series that I have added a long time ago on top of that list regardless of adding new episodes or not. Unfortunately it also seems that series that I have added before, but haven't watched yet will get moved to the top, if I change the files (e.g. changing for higher quality). That's also not something I want, since I added the series at an earlier point and want to preserve that just with other files. 

Also please note this is really an edge case for me, I don't not want to do it with all series just, but just a few special ones.