unwanted automatic season folders

[sabayon 10]

Hello everyone.

In the "Series" directory I have a "Documentations" folder. Individual documentaries are stored there, but also multi-part documentaries. I like to put the latter together in its own subfolder. Sometimes Emby creates a separate folder for individual documentaries and names it, for example, "Season 19" for no apparent reason. There is no “Season 18” or any other folder I created with any season number. All attempts to get rid of these folders failed. After a few minutes, such subfolders appeared again and individual documentation ended up in them randomly. Furthermore, Emby randomly "creates" folder names or renames files without it being clear to me where this information could come from. How can you resolve this?

Thanks very much in advance for your advice.

Edited December 7, 2024 by sabayon

[Luke 42077]

HI, this is just how TV series work in Emby. Episodes always belong to a season. Here's a couple suggestions:

• In your emby user display settings, you could set your preferred episodes layout to just showing all episodes on the series screen without the season layer
• Or just put this series in a home videos library instead

Please also see TV Naming

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

In your emby user display settings, you could set your preferred episodes layout to just showing all episodes on the series screen without the season layer

Looks like is some cases this might be a good per show option instead of global.

Will guess naming scheme or misidentification but need to see the full structure and naming.

But as Luke mentioned Emby looks for Seasons within all TV Shows/Series.

[sabayon 10]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, this is just how TV series work in Emby. Episodes always belong to a season. Here's a couple suggestions:

• In your emby user display settings, you could set your preferred episodes layout to just showing all episodes on the series screen without the season layer
• Or just put this series in a home videos library instead

Please also see TV Naming

Hello Luke  

So that I understand this correctly: It would be better to simply combine such clips in their own category? Within the Series category, I'm very happy with how it works since you explained to me how the naming conventions work.

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, sabayon said:

Hello Luke  

So that I understand this correctly: It would be better to simply combine such clips in their own category? Within the Series category, I'm very happy with how it works since you explained to me how the naming conventions work.

There are pros and cons to using home videos as well as to using TV. I think you have to decide what's best. Just know that TV libraries do have some file naming requirements.