Add a name for a TV Show serie

[ignazioc 4]

Is it possible to assign a name to an tv show serie? 

I mean instead of calling it 'Season 01' is it possibile to name it in a different way?

more context:
I use emby to organize learning courses and I use the seasons to split the different chapters. Would be nice for me to being able to add the chapter title to the season.

thank.

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?

[ignazioc 4]

I have each course in its own folder. The video files are all name "S1_E01 - something.mp4".
The folder contains also a "poster.png" that's automagically used as cover.

For the library: "Read Nfo" is enabled and of course I'm not using any metadata downloader.

If possibile I'd like to keep everything in the filestytem and not on emby db, for easy manipulation. 
 

[Luke 42077]

HI, can you please show us the complete organization? Screenshots of the file system would be great. Thanks.

[ignazioc 4]

hi,

this is how the filesystem looks like. 

The folder "chess" is the course of the emby library.

 

 

[Luke 42077]

Thanks. Where are you seeing Season 1 as the series name?

[Happy2Play 9780]

10 hours ago, Luke said:

Thanks. Where are you seeing Season 1 as the series name?

 

 

Folder view you have a Chess folder but each sub folder is its own Show listing episodes as Season 1 or 2.

So the example above actually created 3 separate Shows/Series from a TV standpoint.

To a point you are better off putting in Home Video and Photo content type library.  Otherwise you will have some renaming to do to make it work as TV.

[ignazioc 4]

thanks for taking the time of creating the example.

"Season 1" is visibile when I open a single show, both if I do from the "show" view or from the "folder" view. 

I'd be happy if instead of "Season 1" I could name it something else. I'm open to reorganise the videos in a different structure if that helps. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

In the end from a TV Show standpoint once recognized as Season items you can rename per metadata to whatever you want.

prefixed folder with SX to for that level to recognized as Season level

Aslo note episode have to correspond to the perspective season folder or you will get unexpected merging into wrong season level ie items in Season 2 folder cannot be named S01Exx as it will show in season 1 folder and season 2 folder.

Now that they are recognized I can change the names per metadata.

So these things require a lot of manual work.

Have you compared how it looks in Home Video and Photo content type library?

[ignazioc 4]

Thanks, I haven't noticed I can change the metadata (and therefore the name) for a *season*  

I see that the season metadata are not stored into an nfo file, is there a way to do it ? (I see the tvshow.nfo but doesn't contains info about the season's name)

 

For the 2 library type, "home video" or "tv show" I don't see for my use case any difference. These screenshots are form 2 libraries with different content.

 

 

Fr

Edited April 23, 2024 by ignazioc

[Luke 42077]

The content types are very different. If your organization doesn’t follow TV naming guidelines then I would suggest using home videos.