so im setting up a proper anime server and im kind of stuck on the metadata
been running jellyfin for a bit , had everything scan and it looked fine at first but then i noticed stuff was misclassified , wrong episode orders, some seasons (of the same show) getting merged when they shouldnt be. basically a mess
wiped everything and starting fresh. currently looking at shoko server + shokofin plugin as the proper solution instead of just trying to fix filenames manually
my situation is a bit different tho , i dont torrent. most of my stuff came from animepahe and similar sites so the files are encoded in mp4 ,
anyone gone through this with a similar source situation ? is shoko the move or is there something better for my anime :)
thanks!
Edit : Almost forgot ! if you have any tools, tips or anything really that would be helpful to a beginner like me (like tailscale) please mention them in the comments and i will check them out.
Even when set up “correctly” there are going to be a few shows where things are wrong, just due to different groups classifying series differently in some cases.
for the basics, you just need to ensure you have the right folder structure and the standard episode numbering in the filename, usually “/libraryroot/Show Title/Season 01/Show title - Episode Name - S01E01.file”
there are cases where a show has multiple seasons but some are classified as a separate show, some are separate single cour seasons, some are multiple cour seasons, specials etc. and that changes based on where you get your metadata and often differs from what the release groups will use.
So to tidy it up in those situations I use TinyMediaManager to manually build the metadata and write that to a file that jellyfin will use above all other providers.
I’ve only needed to do that in full detail for Monogatari series though, since I have my preferred way to arrange that abominable mess. pretty much everything else I stick with whatever the AniDB plugin wants and adjust my files to suit.