TV Shows showing as Series and Season

[subby 2]

I have my folders as TV Shows\Arrow\Season 1. But in Emby I'm noticing some TV Shows have Season 1, some have Series 1. Why is this? Is there a setting I can do to keep them all as Season 1. And where to find this setting? I can manually change the info for each setting, But all new seasons i add list as series. Picture shows example of it. Also why does it list a season that I dont have yet?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

From what I understand "Season is used in the US and "Series" is used in much of Europe. I do not know exactly where each is used. Every TV series I have, which is over 500, uses "Season" but it could be related to both where you are and where the show came from.

 

I am in the US and I have shows from the US, Canada, The UK and one each from Korea and Mexico. All of those show "Season" as they should. My library language is set to English in case that matters.

 

I would like to help more but all I can do is offer what my setup is and that I do not see "Series" in any of my shows.

 

Hope that gives a little more info and helps some.

[dcook 299]

This was a recent change in August I think. 

Its pulling the names from some other location now instead of the folders as it was before.

 

I would comment more but since @@Luke made the change he is the best person to answer.

Edited October 16, 2017 by dcook

[paulsalter 84]

Does the same for me, it's a regional change (though doesnt affect everyone, but not sure what countries use the term Season/Series to mean the same thing))

 

All my older content is nicely shown as Season XX and looks good

any new Seasons i add now get named as Series X, so i have to rename them

 

Couple of other threads around discussing this

Edited October 16, 2017 by paulsalter

[subby 2]

I'll check other threads, see if an answer is there

 

I've changed the language to english US and refreshed metadata. Didn't change a thing. So changed it back to english UK.

[CBers 7450]

It's discussed in this, rather lengthy, thread here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/51468-emby-server-no-longer-filling-tv-show-season-year/

 

Does/Doesn't appear to be regional.

 

If you change the "<Title>" field in the season.nfo file - you can call it what you want.

 

 

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Edited October 17, 2017 by CBers

[dcook 299]

It would be nice if we got an official explanation as to what changed and how it changed? 

So that we can understand where this season/series data is coming from and have the option to change it to suit our needs.

Edited October 17, 2017 by dcook

[ebr 16182]

If you change the "

 

Please just use the "Edit Info" option and built in editor to change this information on your series instead of trying to manipulate external files.  That way we are sure that what you want to happen is what will happen .  Thanks.

[CBers 7450]

Please just use the "Edit Info" option and built in editor to change this information on your series instead of trying to manipulate external files. That way we are sure that what you want to happen is what will happen . Thanks.

Perhaps fixing the issue is a better solution!!

[Abobader 3464]

What issue to fix? Completely lost here.

[paulsalter 84]

It would be nice if we got an official explanation as to what changed and how it changed? 

So that we can understand where this season/series data is coming from and have the option to change it to suit our needs.

From what i gather it comes from here

http://translate.emby.media/collaboration/

 

Think this option is page 23 or 24 on the web app section (server)

 

unfortunately its a one size fits all in country now, where before it used to have the naming of your file system

 

So if i where to change it to my preferred Season XX, everyone in the UK would then get that

Edited October 17, 2017 by paulsalter

[subby 2]

I decided to reinstall the server, and let it redownload all metadata. Its displaying Seasons as Seasons now properly.

[Luke 42078]

@@subby what was your preferred metadata language before? you might have had moviedb enabled for seasons, which does provide season names. I think we will stop importing that value from moviedb until if/when we have field-level configuration.

[CBers 7450]

@@subby what was your preferred metadata language before? you might have had moviedb enabled for seasons, which does provide season names. I think we will stop importing that value from moviedb until if/when we have field-level configuration.

TheMovieDB is the only provider fur Season metadata.

 

Surely by stop importing that value, it will affect more people than are already affected?

[dcook 299]

So you are saying to fix this bug we need to create account on http://translate.emby.media and change the option on page 23 or 24 where it says Season or Series?

 

Does this change get picked up by Emby server in realtime? or who often does it check with http://translate.emby.media ?

 

I found the code on this page:

http://translate.emby.media/collaboration/translate/project/project/9056/language-from/547/language/45/p/24

 

I think we need to change these both:

 

Season {0} and Series {0}

 

To:

 

Season {00}

 

 

 

From what i gather it comes from here

http://translate.emby.media/collaboration/

 

Think this option is page 23 or 24 on the web app section (server)

 

unfortunately its a one size fits all in country now, where before it used to have the naming of your file system

 

So if i where to change it to my preferred Season XX, everyone in the UK would then get that

Edited October 18, 2017 by dcook

[CBers 7450]

@@dcook

 

Please just use the "Edit Info" option and built in editor to change this information on your series instead of trying to manipulate external files.  That way we are sure that what you want to happen is what will happen .  Thanks.

[ebr 16182]

So you are saying to fix this bug we need to create account on http://translate.emby.media and change the option on page 23 or 24 where it says Season or Series?

 

No, no one is saying that.

 

 

 you might have had moviedb enabled for seasons, which does provide season names. I think we will stop importing that value from moviedb until if/when we have field-level configuration.

[dcook 299]

So you are saying for every new season that I add to my Emby I now have to manually click on edit info and correct it? 

Where before it was getting the correct name from the folder automatically? 

Sorry that does not seem right to me, it does not make sense that we now have to manually edit something when before it was automatic.

 

I think this change needs to be reverted back the way it was and discussed with users and then decide the best way to handle it.

 

 

@@dcook

[ebr 16182]

So you are saying for every new season that I add to my Emby I now have to manually click on edit info and correct it? 

 

Did you see this...?

 

 

 you might have had moviedb enabled for seasons, which does provide season names. I think we will stop importing that value from moviedb until if/when we have field-level configuration.

[CBers 7450]

@@ebr

 

TheMovieDB is the only provider fur Season metadata.

Surely by stop importing that value, it will affect more people than are already affected?

 

??

[ebr 16182]

@@ebr

 

 

??

 

The only thing we are going to stop importing is the season title.

[CBers 7450]

The only thing we are going to stop importing is the season title.

 

Which would be what ??

 

Sorry, I'm getting very confused with this Series/Season issue.

 

Personally I don't have any issues, as I see Season, but others in the UK see Series.

 

I don't want something taken away that will affect me, and potentially others, so just after some clarification on this please.

[dcook 299]

I use  The Open Movie Database 1st and The Movie DB 2nd

 

But even if that data is coming from TheMovieDB that does not answer my question.

 

Prior to August everything was 100% correct, from what I understand Emby used the folder name data and since my folder names were correct everything displayed correctly.

 

Since this changed, as I understand Emby is getting the data from "translate.emby.media/collaboration/translate/project/project/9056/language-from/547/language/45/p/24" which is not correct.

 

Now they saying we can "edit info" on each season, but to mean that is a step backwards, why should I have to edit all my new season to make them match what I already had before? and what I have on my file system?

 

I don't see how moviedb is the issue since I have always had that listed as a metadata provider since day 1 and this issue only started in August.

 

I respectfully request:

 

Can you please explain in clear English what changed, how/why it changed and how we can "fix" it so that Emby displayed seasons properly as it did prior to August?

We just need clear information from you on what has happened and how to fix it as the whole issue is very confusing.

 

Thank you kindly in advance.

 

 

 

Did you see this...?

Edited October 18, 2017 by dcook

[paulsalter 84]

Not sure where this info is stored on moviedb, but i have just tested adding a new season of a US show (supergirl) which i woudnt expect to use the term Series

 

This is the season.nfo that gets created

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<season>

  <plot />

  <outline />

  <lockdata>false</lockdata>

  <dateadded>2017-10-18 15:01:58</dateadded>

  <title>Series 2</title>

  <art>

    <poster>https://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/295759-2-2.jpg</poster>

  </art>

  <seasonnumber>2</seasonnumber>

</season>

 

It looks to me like this is directly coming from the translation table, if i change my setting to US, then it follows the setting there and gives me Season X, prior to whatever changed i got Season XX, which follows my folder structure

Edited October 18, 2017 by paulsalter

[ebr 16182]

It looks to me like this is directly coming from the translation table, if i change my setting to US, then it follows the setting there and gives me Season X, prior to whatever changed i got Season XX, which follows my folder structure

 

Yes, there are two things going on here:

 

For those of you in the UK or with that as your language preference, "Series" is showing due to that preference.

 

But there are others in here reporting that their settings are for US and they are still seeing "Series" for some seasons.  In this instance, we believe this value is coming from the movie db so we are going to stop using that.