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.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    Jellyfin is going to want:

    This is the main problem I have right now. The example I gave in the post for example. I currently have to list them as entirely separate entries, both with season 01. Not one entry with season 01 or season 02, because that’s not how it is in AniDB or Anilist. As I said in another comment, I may checkout Sonarr if Shoko doesn´t work out.

    • @kitnahtEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      I don’t understand why you’re naming stuff that way. You use a single FSN:UWB(2014) folder, because the year represents the date the show started. There is no FSN:UBW(2015). It all goes under UBW(2014), even if the episode was released decades later.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        I’m naming it that way, because otherwise Jellyfin can’t handle it properly for me. Season 2 will not show up with the proper metadata if I put all of it in the same folder. My guess is that because 2014 (season 1)and 2015 (season 2) are two separate entries in both Anilist and AniDB and not grouped together under UBW, that it wants it that way in Jellyfin too.

        • @kitnahtEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          You’re causing your own issues here because you’re wanting to name it all the Japanese way. I use AniDB and everything too - and it works just fine as a single series, with a single year, with all 25 episodes in a Season 1 folder with proper metadata download and everything.

          Jellyfin doesn’t see it because it doesn’t know what the hell an “Unlimited Blade Works” released in 2015 is…because it wasn’t released in 2015. You need to use AniDB as a secondary provider for Metadata, not a primary provider, because it doesn’t match up with how Jellyfin and other English-made programs work.

          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            Interesting. I’ll have to look at it again then. I figured that since AniDB also has UBW split between season 1 and 2 (listed as 2014 and 2015) that I had to list them separately too. This does work by the way, but it’s just really cluttered. Which metadata provider should I primarily use then if not AniDB or Anilist?

            Hopefully it works for my other anime too