TV Show Library problems - What is Flaklypa??

[thelostswede 0]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having the same issue. 

This is apparently some Norwegian TV show, but everything in my TV show folder ends up as something from Flåklypa. 

Everything in that folder is in a sub folder, of which some have further subfolders. 

There are no files in the root TV Shows directory. 

[Luke 42078]

@thelostswedeHi, how are your files named and organized?

[thelostswede 0]

As I described, a root TV Shows directory with subdirectories with the various shows, some with just files, some with further subdirectories. 

The TV shows directory shows up as such and everything below gets the same show and picture. I just deleted and re-scanned all the metadata and it's exactly the same. The picture is clearly from som entirely different show.

I run Emby through Docker on OMV if it makes any difference.

Edited July 7, 2025 by thelostswede

[Luke 42078]

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a root TV Shows directory with subdirectories with the various shows, some with just files, some with further subdirectories. 

Can you show us exactly what it looks like? Thanks.

[thelostswede 0]

list.txt

Please see attached.

[GrimReaper 4739]

24 minutes ago, thelostswede said:

list.txt 1.5 MB · 1 download

Please see attached.

You have  excessive number of season-only folders there - causing Emby to treat your TV shows root as a series folder. 

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drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Baptiste-S01-Series.1--2019-BBC-720p-w.subs-x265-HEVC

drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Brave.New.World.S01.720p.x265-MeGusta

drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Fortitude S02

drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Fringe S4
drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Fringe S5

drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 From Dusk till Dawn S01
drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Futurama S6
drwxrwsrwx   2 root users 4096 Apr 27  2023 Good Omens (2019) Season 1 S01 (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 HEVC 10bit EAC3 5.1 RZeroX)

etc.

Each TV show needs to have its own folder (season folders underneath that are not mandatory, but recommended).

TV Naming

Rename/restructure, rescan.

Edited July 7, 2025 by GrimReaper

[thelostswede 0]

So because of that, Emby  should identify them as something it's not, in fact, two different shows that have nothing related to each other? Sounds logical. 

[Luke 42078]

We plan to be able to support more mish mash folder structures. We’re just not quite there yet.

[thelostswede 0]

Which is fine, but how come it decided not just for me, but at least for two other people, that the show in question was Flåklypa and at least in my case, mixed it up with something else? That makes no sense at all, especially as I don't know what either of those are. 

[Luke 42078]

1 minute ago, thelostswede said:

Which is fine, but how come it decided not just for me, but at least for two other people, that the show in question was Flåklypa and at least in my case, mixed it up with something else? That makes no sense at all, especially as I don't know what either of those are. 

We'd have to see the server log, but generally it takes the name of the folder that it thinks is the tv series and plugs that into tvdb/moviedb searches.