Unfortunately, that’s not an error. Apparently, the BBC insists that the 2005 Doctor Who reboot ended in 2022, and the new specials and the upcoming season, are all technically a new series. So now it has its own new entry on TMDB. It’s stupid, and I hate it, but here we are. I guess it makes some amount of sense, since the original Doctor Who and the 2005 reboot are also conaidered to be seperate series. I wonder if that means the episodes going forward are considered to be yet another reboot of the series.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gglvqn
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/57243-doctor-who/discuss/656034cd2b113d010cc0997d
The very unfortunate solution that I have decided upon, is to switch it over to using TMDB, which seems to have no trouble syncing the correct metadata. I say unfortunate, because TMDB has yet another completely different idea as to what the episode orders, numbers, and titles should be, which required renaming the files yet again. And I don’t want my library turning into a hodgepodge of metadata from multiple sources(and I’d be constantly worried that anything using tvdb was wrong, anyway), so that means I’m going to have to go in and rename/reorder/etc who knows how many files, from who knows how many series, so everything detects correctly. That, in turn, means completely removing the physical files from the library and deleting the nfo files, to ensure everything is completely removed, then doing to rename and adding them back to the library all over again. I wonder how long this is gonna take. Or how badly this is going to fuck with my trakt data.
And of course sonarr only uses tvdb, so that’s a whole thing. Yup, definitely remembering why I originally abandoned jellyfin for Plex in a hurry the first time around. Metadata issues.
I was typing up a response and it got so long I decided to just add it as an edit to my OP so it’s more easily visible to anyone else that might happen to read my post.
The top and only metadata source.
I want the opposite. I want all of my data to be completely inaccessible to anyone, and potentially even self-destruct somehow.
Pre…pare…? What’s that? Some sorta fruit?
Actually, I just finished importing all of my media to jellyfin a few hours ago, and just opened Plex and jellyfin side to by side, and manually verified everything. Took maybe an hour and a half to carefully look through everything, and just listened to a podcast in the meantime. Only had to manually identify maybe 10 anime, change cover art for 4 or 5, and I was good. Setup the docker version of that jellyPlex-Watched tool, let it do it’s thing for another hour, and I’m basically now fully moved over to Jellyfin and ready to go.
And yeah, first thing I did was turn on the nfo file setting. Thankfully, I don’t put anything into my library without first manually organizing/naming the internal folder structure, and then using the RenameMyTVSeries app to rename the actual files using data from tvdb. So as long as I have Plex/jellyfin set to be forced to prioritize metadata from tvdb, it is almost always detected correctly. Sometimes it’ll decide to identify an anime like One Piece or Witchblade as the live-action show instead, since they have the same name. But that rarely happens, and only needs to be fixed once. And with now having those files sitting in with the actual media files, if I ever have to make another move like this in the future, it should be that much easier.
Thanks for the info. Looks like pretty much everything important has a solution. If the subtitle/audio track settings you mentioned work well enough, then that’s a good bonus, not having to load up a separate tool in a browser every time. And yeah, I was planning to run the two side-by-side for a bit to test, and to make sure that everything I want properly replicated gets done, even if I have to do some of it manually. I’m hoping to eventually ditch Plex entirely, it’s just so bad, and they keep making it worse. Next, I’ll have to go have a look around at any other mods/add-ons/etc that are available and see what else I can do.
Bright to you by the same people who will trash Windows over some aspect of the OS, and in the same sentence praise Linux for how wonderful and innovative it is for doing the exact same thing.
I switched from Google photos to immich just recently. I’m still looking for a good solution to replace Google’s editing features. I used, and miss, those features a LOT.