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 42832]

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 42832]

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.

[podonnell 49]

4 hours ago, howllor said:

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.

Hmm, I tried changing [29X0Xxae2eo] to (29X0Xxae2eo) but it still seems to identify as Season 20. Would these be the type of parenthesis that you'd expect it would ignore the season naming for?

[howllor 43]

Yeah I've just used regular ( )

I've not had any filenames with X on them though, might be that Emby has been hard coded to pick that up no matter what. If it's possible to affect the output, I'd try to avoid the letters X, A and E in combination with numbers and see if that makes any difference.