Merging Live TV recordings and downloaded TV recordings for same show

[flashls82 5]

Apologies if this has been asked and answered; I've searched the forums and not found a solution to the exact situation I'll describe here.

Situation: I have some downloaded episodes and some recorded Live TV episodes of the same show (Jeopardy). The downloaded TV shows go into a "TV" library, the recorded shows go into a "Recorded TV" library. Emby's metadata is correctly identifying both instances of this show as the same (e.g. same TVDB IDs).

Desired result: Episodes of this show across these two libraries should show up in a single "Jeopardy" listing in my bigger "TV" library. I have enabled "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" in the big TV library (i.e. where I would like the merged version of this to show up).

What I tried: I tried adding the folder for the recorded TV library as a second folder in the big TV library, too (i.e. this folder is now part of two libraries). When I did this, the big TV library found the recorded episodes of Jeopardy, but added it as a separate instance of the show -- i.e. I see two different "Jeopardy" shows in this library now, one with the episodes from the recorded TV folder and on with the episodes from the downloaded TV folder. Both are showing up as identical metadata wise; they just are not merging as I would have expected "merge series across multiple folders" to do.

Any ideas on how to get the result I want? Or is what I'm describing how things are supposed to work for better or worse?

Edited 2 hours ago by flashls82

[Luke 42579]

Hi, to merge them you would have to make them part of the same library.

[Luke 42579]

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they just are not merging as I would have expected "merge series across multiple folders" to do.

When you add it to one library, make sure to remove it from the other one as well, and then it should work.

[flashls82 5]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

When you add it to one library, make sure to remove it from the other one as well, and then it should work.

Is there any way to do that without having "Recordings" in Live TV show all my downloaded shows, too? That's what happened last time I changed the Live TV setting to have series recordings go to the larger TV library.