What part of this name is causing it to be identified as part of "Season 29"?

[podonnell 49]

I have a "Mixed Content" library that is identifying some videos as part of a season. The name of one of the videos in "season 29" is:

> Video Title (Match 1 & 2) [29X0Xxke3eo]

Is this simply being picked up from the [29 near the end of the title?
Another video title I have simply has "May 1st 2023" in the title, and that alone has it being identified as Season 20, episode 23.

Is there a naming convention I can use to avoid this? I know of this page - https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html, but is there a simple formula I can use to avoid this being picked up? Or, if there's a clear pattern I can reference to avoid.

Alternatively, is there a one-click removal from assigning content to a season? This library is all personal videos, but there is some content I want to have set into Seasons elsewhere in that same library.

As a last resort, I could throw this content into another Library that is labeled as "Home videos and photos" -- would the same issue happen in that library type? Or is Mixed Content causing this because it has TV naming?

Thanks for any help!

Edited Thursday at 02:58 AM by podonnell

[pwhodges 2081]

One of the recognised episode formats is ssxee, so I suspect that it's not just the "29" that an issue, but specifically "29X0".

The other one I wouldn't have expected...

Paul

[Luke 42828]

How are your files named and organized?

[podonnell 49]

19 minutes ago, Luke said:

How are your files named and organized?

For this particular use-case, it's a collection of YouTube videos that are required to be downloaded by an internal identifier. This is basically any string of alphanumeric characters at the end, ie -- [KPY3L9Daxc4]

I can tell the developer of the app what particular strings to avoid, is it strictly S followed by a number?
That said, is simply having a title of "May 1st 2023" going to cause this issue? A lot of the videos need to maintain their date in the title, but they don't need the alphanumeric section.

[Luke 42828]

You're probably better off using a home videos library for that. Then it won't matter how they are named.

[howllor 43]

I've got a similar setup, using a tv-show library for content that isn't technically tv-shows, and the most reliable way to stop emby from interpreting a year as a season and episode is to put it in parentheses.

[podonnell 49]

On 8/1/2026 at 4:29 PM, howllor said:

I've got a similar setup, using a tv-show library for content that isn't technically tv-shows, and the most reliable way to stop emby from interpreting a year as a season and episode is to put it in parentheses.

This might be my solution -- and very similar use-case here. What specifically are you putting in parenthesis to avoid the parsing?

Thanks!

[howllor 43]

2 hours ago, podonnell said:

This might be my solution -- and very similar use-case here. What specifically are you putting in parenthesis to avoid the parsing?

Thanks!

Sometimes the files just have a year or a whole date, and I just wrap that in parentheses and it seems to work. I archive a lot of recordings of live gigs. It doesn't have to be only the numbers in the parentheses, there can be letters too in my experience. If there is a 4 digit number than can be interpreted as a year within the parentheses, Emby will pick that up as the year of the video.