So I have a bunch of tv series and they were alphabetized fine before the recent upgrade which switched to tmdb (no idea if tmdb has anything to do with it, just mentioned it as reference to when I saw the problem).
This is my folder structure showing an example from both ways I organize my files:
The new version alphabetizes Series Folders (that contains multiple seasons; 2 Broke Girls in my screenshot) separately and first from a single season folder (which just contains that show; 2gether in my screenshot). So when I view tv series in infuse, Iâll see A-Z of series folders and then A-Z of single season folders.
On my ATV/Infuse, 2gether doesnât show after 2 Broke Girls:
Iâve long been irritated by needing to use âs1â for shows that are only single season to begin with but I adjusted since thatâs how the metadata works but its way too irritating and frustrating to have to put the single season files into a âseason 1â folder in a Series Folder (in my case itâd have to be 2gether > 2gether s1 > eps) just so things are alphabetized on infuse correctly. This causes issues when I navigate my files and watch them outside of infuse and also makes it so i have to go into 2 levels to watch a series using infuse as well. Its silly.
Iâm hoping this is maybe a bug or something that could be corrected somehow⌠even if its a setting or certain way I have to label my folders⌠is there any hope (fix)? (btw, this wasnât an issue before the new version and my file org structure hasnât changed in years since using infuse.
also, possibly related, putting a file called âfolder.jpgâ into the single season folders (like 2gether in my example) no longer works eitherâŚ
You may want to name the show â2gether The Seriesâ for the folder and â2gether The Series S01E01.mp4â for the files. It looks like youâre missing the space between the words in the file names and your missing âThe Seriesâ in the folder name.
This was the behaviour (and still is) when viewing TV Shows via folder view prior to Infuse 7.1 as well.
When you view TV shows via Library, it will behave as expected.
I donât like putting spaces in my file names but just to see if that would resolve the issue I tried it and no luck. It still doesnât alphabetize the series correctly.
This makes the metadata fetch perfectly match but that wasnât a problem with the previous file names either, I just had to go in and manually choose the right â2getherâ series.
The problem with that is that without spaces thereâs no way for Infuse to really determine the name. Period, space, underscore, and dash can all be used interchangeably as separator characters for both movies and TV shows so if you want to see something other than a space use underscores or periods both of which are commonly used for separators in media files.
What are you seeing after the name changes? Where is it locating â2getherâ?
One other thing, if you place the season 1 files in a âSeason 01â folder even though thereâs only one season does that cause it to be in the right order for you then?
On my NAS, for series that have 3+ seasons, I put them under a series folder (like 2 Broke Girls etc) but for those that I only have 1 or 2, theyâre organized like 2gether and arenât in a series folder but just season folders.
The users guide lays out how the best way to organize your files so that everything works with the least amount of work afterward. If you follow the Series folder, Season folder then the episodes with the names correctly spaced then you should get consistent results.
There have been many changes in V7 to bring many new features and improvements so what may have worked differently before may have been affected by the changes but it has remained constant as long as you stick with the recommended structure.
Organizing episodes into folders
TV Shows/The Big Bang Theory
Season 1
Files
Season 2
Files
Season 3
Files
TV Shows/The Office
Season 1
Files
Season 2
Files
Season 3
Files