"Jellyfin Recently Added Scan" doesn't add latest episodes but "Jellyfin Full Library Scan" does

Description

“Jellyfin Recently Added Scan” doesn’t add latest episodes but “Jellyfin Full Library Scan” does

Version

Jellyseerr:1.1.1 Jellyfin:10.8.1

Steps to Reproduce

1. request a serie on jellyseerr
2. new episodes have been added to jellyfin
3. jellyseerr runs “Jellyfin Recently Added Scan”
4. result: jellyseerr doesn’t add latest episodes

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Platform

desktop

Device

lenovo PC

Operating System

windows 11

Browser

Chrome

Additional Context

I tracked “Recently Added” items from the jellyfin api, all items are still in there until this line filters out items with item.Type===“Episode”. if change } else if (item.Type === 'Series') { to } else if (item.Type === 'Series' || item.Type === 'Episode') {, it works fine.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow Overseerr’s Code of Conduct

[zeroquinc]

@Fallenbagel Yes, since I changed the Jellyfin setting Date added behavior for new content to Use data scanned into library the issue is solved. The metadata for Date added in Jellyfin was wrong for all movies. I manually fixed my existing movies since I don’t have a huge library and my new movies are getting the right metadata now. I also fixed the issue that my newest movies didn’t got categorized in the Latest movies section in Jellyfin, which probably is the category that Jellyseerr scans when running a Recently added scan.

[zeroquinc]

Any updates on this? it still happens. it runs a full library scan every day at 3AM and thats the only moment Jellyseer recognizes the media. While Jellyfin itself notices it right away.

EDIT: I enabled this setting and now it seems to work again.

EDIT2: and it stopped working again. Movie doesnt get picked up again by the Recent scan, Overseerr works fine.

EDIT3: I think I know whats happening. In Jellyfin you have a section called “Latest movie’s”, I think thats what Jellyseerr scans. But my newly downloaded movie doesn’t get added to “Latest movie’s” somehow…

EDIT4: ok so I fixed it. I noticed that my Latest movie section in Jellyfin didn’t get updated. So I checked the metadata and saw that alot of movies had a wrong “added” date.

So I went into Jellyfin and changed this setting at my library:

Before it was set to: Use file creation date.

Now it finally picks up my latest movie’s correctly and Jellyseerr finds it with a Recently added scan! Hurray!

Sorry for the long message, hope that anyone that has the same problem can use this info.