chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 This has newer worked correctly for me. I have 1000+ movies in my collection nut Auto Box Set only finds and creates 3 collections. I know for a fact that I should have many more. Any suggestions on how to debug this and which logfiles (locations please) are relevant? I would really like to get this to work so any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8246 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Does Emby collect all your metadata? Do your movies contain the collectionid in the metadata? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 What Happy said. Do you use external metadata files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) Yes I use Media Center Master to manage my metadata, so Emby gets it's metadata from external files. But I have allowed Emby to download metadata as well. MCM creates (among other files) movie.xml in each movie folder, and I assume Emby reads this. This file contains the tag <CollectionNumber>8091</CollectionNumber> (taken from the movie "Aliens") Which is the correct collection ID for that movie btw. Somehow the "Alien Collection" is among the very few collections Emby will find. But lots of my other movies have this tag, so I believe that if Emby/Auto Box Sets would read it it could generate the collections based on my metadata files. For my understanding, how does Auto Box Sets get it's metadata? And any chance of getting this to work? I really like MCM for managing my metadata so I really don't want to stop using it. Edited August 31, 2016 by chjohans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Is that collection ID always going to be the Tmdb ID or is it possible for you to configure MCM to fill it in with another source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Yes, if that tag is there it will be the Tmdb *collection ID*. I cannot configure MCM to alter this tag in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Luke - I pushed a change that should handle this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 That's just super news, thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Assuming it works as expected, once the change is released, you will have to refresh the metadata on the movies themselves. Just running the Auto BoxSets task won't pick it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ok, but exactly what does that mean? Can I just refresh my metadata from MCM so the "movie.xml" files are "refreshed" (overwritten and a new date)? Or do I have to do something on the Emby side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 That would probably work but easier to just do a refresh at the library level in Emby (... menu). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ok, will do that then, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Happy2Play 8246 Posted August 31, 2016 Solution Share Posted August 31, 2016 MCM creates two collection ids, so I don't see this to be an issue unless this is really old metadata. <TMDbCollectionId></TMDbCollectionId<CollectionNumber></CollectionNumber 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) No, MCM no longer creates TmdbCollectionId, it just creates CollectionNumber Edited August 31, 2016 by chjohans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8246 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Really just create one right now. debug log 8:41 AM :: [08:41:27.588] DEBUG: Extra XML: TMDbCollectionId=94858:41 AM :: [08:41:27.588] DEBUG: Extra XML: CollectionNumber=9485 and from xml <TMDbCollectionId>9485</TMDbCollectionId><CollectionNumber>9485</CollectionNumber> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Hmm, mine does not (latest version). Will post in the MCM forum then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8246 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 I'll see you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 The one that we read might be the result of you having some sort of "MediaBrowser" compatibility mode set... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37010 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Why not just use Emby for everything? You can make things quite a bit easier for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8246 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Why not just use Emby for everything? You can make things quite a bit easier for yourself. Probably all of the other integrated stuff that Emby will never have. But even with MCM creating metadata, the most you have to do in Emby if you have issues is a Refresh for missing metadata to resolve any issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans 31 Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 An update on this: Emby now finally creates all my "collections" correctly. It turns out I had most of my metadata "locked" in MCM, so it didn't update them with the tag "<TMDbCollectionId></TMDbCollectionId>", at some point MCM must only have supported "<CollectionNumber></CollectionNumber>" because most (if not all) of my movies only had that tag. So i "unlocked" all my metadata in MCM and did a full refresh, took a shilw but when it was all done Emby built my "collections" as it should. I prefer to use MCM to manage my metadata for several reasons: - Habit, I've used it for years and it works extremely well - It has a lot of "download functions" integrated so I can make lists of what I want and if everything is configured correctly it will just "magically" appear in my collectrion once available - It creates metadata for a lot of different platforms - I like to keep my options open Thanks for all the help with this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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