Am I supposed to add every season of a show manually to the tracker?

[Ajjemen]

So I just spent my whole afternoon together with Gemini setting up docker in an Alpine VM and after trouble shooting from hell I finally got Yamtrack running.

But I don't really understand how the tracking is supposed to work. Should I treat each season of a show as it's own tv show? Because right now when I add a TV show as "in progress" only the first season shows up under "Home", and when I mark all episodes of that season as watched the show is removed from "Home" and I have to go into the show and add the next season to tracker. I'm talking about shows that either has finished or is in e.g. it's 6th season.
Is this how it is supposed to work?

I searched in "Issues" and here in discussion but could only find threads about tv shows that are still running that you are up to date for and a new season starts, not sure if that is the same underlying problem?

[66Bunz]

You can set the whole season as completed and it'll set as watched every episode. You can do that to every completed season, and for the ones in progress you have to set the season as in progress and set every episode you watched as watched.

[Ajjemen]

Ok cool. With integration you mean like if I'm using Plex or Jellyfin and have it connected to Yamtrack?

[66Bunz]

Yes

[PanterA60]

But shouldn’t that be automatic? For example, in a few days I’ll have the new season of Euphoria or The Boys to watch. But for some reason, both shows are marked as completed (I imported my database from Trakt), and it doesn’t take their upcoming seasons into account.

So I had to go into each one and change the status from “completed” to “in progress” before they showed up on the Home page. That alone wouldn’t be a big deal, but the problem is that over the weeks and months I’ll have to keep doing this for a ton of shows. It gets tedious and you end up losing track of things.

[FuzzyGrim]

It should be automatic, yes. Right now the way Yamtrack detects new releases is a bit hacky.

The simplest solution would be to poll every tracked media regularly, but at that scale it would make refreshes slow and would likely hit provider rate limits.

[Ajjemen]

But shouldn’t that be automatic? For example, in a few days I’ll have the new season of Euphoria or The Boys to watch. But for some reason, both shows are marked as completed (I imported my database from Trakt), and it doesn’t take their upcoming seasons into account.

So I had to go into each one and change the status from “completed” to “in progress” before they showed up on the Home page. That alone wouldn’t be a big deal, but the problem is that over the weeks and months I’ll have to keep doing this for a ton of shows. It gets tedious and you end up losing track of things.

Also watching Euphoria and Boys, I did like you and added the new seasons as "In progress". At least when a new season has started and is added to the tracker Yamtrack tells when the next episode is airing. But for the time being I will keep using the awful TV Time in parallell just for the "Upcoming" tab for future seasons. Otherwise Yamtrack is kick ass, I am a little proud of myself for creating my own server on Oracle Cloud with their free option.

[PanterA60]

My issue is not having to mark two or three shows from “completed” to “in progress”, that would be of minor concern. The real problem, at least for me, is having to do this across a large number of shows, and in my case, a significant number of anime. Over time, this becomes extremely tedious.

Furthermore, to ensure that I am not missing any shows or anime, I need to cross-check everything with Trakt. For now, I can still roll back to V2 using a script, but once that is no longer possible and I am forced to use V3, where the interface is dreadful and far from intuitive, I will lose access to that level of oversight.

My long-term goal is to move away from Trakt entirely and transition fully to Yamtrakt. However, as long as I still need to rely on Trakt as a reference to keep track of what I have watched, what is being released, and what remains to be seen, that transition will be difficult.

Are there any plans to make changes in that regard, or is it something that would be difficult to implement? Off the top of my head, that’s probably the only major feature I really need for me to be fully committed to Yamtrack.

[FuzzyGrim]

Yeah, in dev you have all the new features. But I have just released this in v0.25.1

[PanterA60]

Do you have any idea when the final version will be officially released, or is everything still quite far behind?

[FuzzyGrim]

What do you mean with the final version?

[PanterA60]

I was referring more to a “final” version in the sense of what the developers consider to be their intended vision for the tracker, where most of the core features are already in place and any further changes are just minor refinements and polishing.

I’ve just noticed there was a docker update for it with some nice new features. :)

[FuzzyGrim]

I suppose it depends on each person what the main features of a tracker should be. I'd say it already has the core features I initially wanted, but as you can probably see in the issues tab, there are many suggestions for adding more features.

[PanterA60]

Sorry for the bump/double post. Something just came up and I’m not sure whether this is a bug or an issue on my end.

Using the red rectangle as an example, shouldn’t it show 0–2 there? In other words, that I currently have two episodes of that show to watch. As it stands, it gives the impression that there’s nothing to watch, when in fact there are two episodes already out as of yesterday.

[FuzzyGrim]

The top of the image says it will premiere today. According to TVMaze, the data provider that Yamtrack uses for episode air dates, it just premiered on April 13, 2026, at 12:00:00 UTC. So now it should now be 0 / 2 episodes.

[FuzzyGrim]

This TVMaze thread seems related: https://www.tvmaze.com/threads/6422/data-inconsistency-between-front-end-and-api

[PanterA60]

You’re right. It really does come down to time zones, which can be either ahead or behind.

With Liar Game, for instance, Trakt already shows that I have one episode available to watch, whereas in Yamtrack that same episode is apparently only scheduled to air tomorrow. In reality, though, it has already been released, since Sonarr has already pulled it for me.

[Ajjemen]

So I just installed the latest version and now it works like I wanted!
I'm rewatching Mr Robot and when I marked the last episode of season 1 as watched, season 2 was added automatically to the tracker.
Great job, thanks a lot!