Wrong sorting for Air-By-Date Shows

[Kincaid 1]

I am watching my shows via the web interface. I have some shows like The Tonight Show that don't work with season and episode numbers but with airdates. This worked well before I installed MB server on a new machine. Now the sort order is totally messed up. For example I have a folder called "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" with a folder called "2014" in it. In this folder are all episodes from 2014 and they are named like this: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-07-14 - Michael Strahan, Diane Kruger, Phish" and in the Windows Explorer they are sorted correctly. When I am in the 2014 folder in the MB webinterface the episodes are sorted like this:

 

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-07-21 - Kate Hudson, Ellar Coltrane, Nico & Vinz

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-07-17 - Miranda Kerr, Jason Mraz

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-06-06 - Channing Tatum, Joshua Topolsky, Julian McCullough

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-07-23 - Robin Wright, Josh Charles, Weezer

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014-05-16 - Drew Barrymore, Giovanni Ribisi, Elbow

 

and so on. I can't see any sorting rule there. The same is with "Last Week Tonight". I even tried to set the sort name only to the date but it didn't change anything.

 

Does anyone know what's wrong with my setup?

[Luke 42077]

Goes by tvdb order, if available

[Kincaid 1]

There are no informations but the name and the sort name, no tvdb id and the order in tvdb is correct, so this shouldn't be a problem.

[Kincaid 1]

No other ideas?

[blesio 2]

I have a solution, at least tested on this weeks episodes of Jimmy Fallon, the problem isn't TVDB, it's solely emby and the timezone you're in.  Strip the video file of the date and substitue it with the S00E00 formar, you can do this in sonarr if you're using it, I rename the daily video files with this formula in Media Management:

 

{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title}.{Quality Full}

 

also you can try to change the file creation date in the same settings section of sonar:

 

Change File Date to Local Air time (but this didn't help much), the title change helped a lot, this should work, because the Daily episodes are in S00E00 format on TVDB and it matches correctly

I'm trying to redownload the rest of this weeks episodes to see if it works, hopefully, I'll have this problem solved once and for all

 

 

Edited November 20, 2024 by blesio

[blesio 2]

Seems to be working fine:

 

 

I had E30 downloaded today, deleted ep 28 and 29, redownloaded them and they appeared correctly, the file name format I have right now seems to be working:

 

 

As you can see, the file creation dates are the Local US time of AIRING and also I stripped the filenames from the date and time itself and put the Season number and episode number, all automatically done in Sonarr:

 

Edited November 20, 2024 by blesio

[Luke 42077]

Thanks @blesio