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I've been ripping my anime bluray collection and wanted to have an easier way to sort it for Jellyfin, so I wanted to try Shoko Server, but it's not recognizing any of my anime. It sees the actual files, but categorizes them all as Unrecognized, making the entire idea of using it for automated sorting pointless. I'm struggling to find guides on this and the documentation is quite lacking. I don't know what I'm wrong. Are there certain rules I need to be following in order for Shoko to hash correctly? Does it hash the name? The actual ripped files?

My folder structure is setup in a way that Jellyfin properly recognizes it (without using the Shoko plugin yet), so like so for example:

- Fate/stay night: ubw (2014)
---- Season 01
---------- <episode> S01E01
- Fate/stay night: ubw (2015)
---- Season 01
---------- you get the idea

Since multi season anime often are separate entries, each season is usually its own main folder (which is one of the reasons I wanted to try Shoko to see if I could combine them into one so that I don´t have multiple entries for what is really only 1 anime series).

Anyone here that uses Shoko and have some tips?

EDIT: thanks for the information and tips everyone. Seems like Shoko might not be what I'm actually looking for.

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[–] kitnaht 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Am I the only one here successfully using Sonarr to take care of Anime? Sonarr has the ability to sort by absolute/relative episode you just need a profile for it.

If I really need to bother with any renaming, I'll use "RenameMyTVSeries" to mass-rename things, and drop them in the folder where Sonarr wants; or usually just have Sonarr grab the anime itself and apply its renaming rules.

Jellyfin is going to want:

  • Show Title (YEAR)
  • -- Season 1
  • ---- Episode Name - S01E1234
  • -- Season 2
  • ---- Episode Name - S02E1234
[–] anyhow2503 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Grouping seasons into a series folder doesn't work well in some cases, because that's not the way they are released in Japan. A new season is (most of the time) effectively an entire new show entry. Show seasons are mostly a north american thing. No matter which software you use, there's always going to be some minor issues if you group seasons into one entry.

[–] kitnaht 1 points 5 months ago

In instances like this, you simply use a single Season 1 folder, with absolute naming for episodes. It's really that simple.

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