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Would we be able to add onto the statuses in Emby? I would like to see the ability to have airing, returning, cancelled, and ended.

Hi There, Just wondering about a few issues I'm having with metadata for a group of folders. As you can see in the attached screenshots, fies are not being uploaded in the same structure as the folders on my computer. Not sure if this is a plugin or settings issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello All, I have a program for the longest time, called DVD Profiler by Invelos (Windows based). You may have guessed it, it is for DVDs. Behind it is a massive community fed database. Here is a screenshot. I chose "Add DVD", in the next Dialog I typed "Alien" and then picked one from the list and chose preview. In the mid window you can see how many versions there are, and that is only for "Locality = USA" and Region Code 1. How do they know that these versions are different? They know by the UPC-code on the DVD. And just like Wikipedia, users are happily feeding the database with the information on the DVD-Case. So, my idea was to tap into that database. Others have already done so, and there are plugins available for that. "HTTPJolie" is the plugin I am currently looking at, which supports HTTP-queries. But maybe there are other plugins (e.g. based on SQL) that work better. Anyway, based on their work I would like to write a plugin that can query the online database from invelos. There is a caveat though. To use the above plugins to query the DB, one has to be a registered user of DVD Profiler. I don't know if that means "paying". Nonetheless, I hope that there are people around here that are willing to help or to contribute to this project. Maybe with their time, maybe with a sample code for such a plugin, maybe with code sniplets you already have, or anything else along those lines. Please let me know here in this thread. Thank you, Roodee

Hello, I tried to configure one of my media library to only take metadata from a nfo file. The thing is that the shows on this library are re-mixed by an unofficial team so the metadatas are not provided by official metadata providers like tvdb or imdb. Anyway, for majority of the show informations, the metadata are well retreived from the nfo file. There's only one field that is not : the season name... There's an extract of the nfo and screens of my library's configuration. tvshow.nfo It's my first time sending a message on this forum, so I'm sorry if it's not on the right area. Best regards,

Question- in library advanced settings, you can choose a custom (or default) path where to store all your libraries metadata and artwork. Additionally in each individual library settings, you have the option to "store artwork in media folders" - which explains that "Saving artwork into media folders will put them in a place where they can be easily stored and edited". I was always under the impression that by checking off the "store artwork in media folders" meant it would store the artwork etc within the folders of the media file themselves (artwork would be in the same location as the movie file etc). However this would contradict the option to store metadata in a custom path as mentioned since this wouldn't be with the media folders, and storing them in one location as as global option for all your libraries. I'm obviously missing something/not understanding the two options. If someone would be so kind to explain it to me, I would be grateful. Thanks much.

I'm banging my head on a wall here, but.... I've updated some metadata for a folder of "Christmas" music to be Various Artists for the Album Artist tag in several albums. Emby refuses to recognize these changes, even as I've: Completed deleted the folder off my drive and re-added it Deleted the metadata folder out of Emby Gone into my Synology Emby folder and deleted anything I could find there related to said albums Emptied recycle bins Renamed the folder entirely This is actually getting to be ridiculous at this point. The library clearly scans properly, as it does notice when I've put the music files back on my drive. But the metadata is still the same as it was before, even though the file it's scanned is literally saying something different at this point. It's like there's a ghost metadata folder somewhere I'm completely missing and I'm starting to lose my mind. Where else can I look to clear this so it will actually read the correct, current metadata out of the files?

Hi, I am having this problem for a while now and tried to find the solution in former topics facing with file/folder permission issues in Linux. I think I tried a lot, but still without success. What am I trying to do? I want to save all metadata changes, made within emby, saved as an album.nfo file in the album-folder. I just want to make sure, that all changes I made are permanently saved and can be exported when necessary. My library setup My music is physically stored on a network drive, which is configured as a samba share. I mount this share with a dietpi-raspberry and emby is running on that raspberry. I checked file permissions, the mount has owner and group emby. So that should work? What did I do so far? I activated nfo as metadata reader and safer in the library. I change the album genre in emby and save it. My expectation is, that this change would reflect in an album.nfo file? But nothing happens. Log Output This is what I get: 2022-12-23 06:23:45.109 Error ProviderManager: Error in metadata saver *** Error Report *** Version: 4.7.11.0 Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffdetect /opt/emby-server/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_armhf.deb Operating system: Linux version 5.10.103-v7+ (dom@buildbot) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-8 (Ubuntu/Linaro 8.4.0-3ubuntu1) 8.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #152 Framework: .NET 6.0.8 OS/Process: arm/arm Runtime: opt/emby-server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 4 Data path: /var/lib/emby Application path: /opt/emby-server/system System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/mnt/MusicLibrary/iTunes/Queen/Jazz/album.nfo' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.IO.RandomAccess.WriteAtOffset(SafeFileHandle handle, ReadOnlySpan`1 buffer, Int64 fileOffset) at System.IO.Strategies.BufferedFileStreamStrategy.FlushWrite() at System.IO.Strategies.BufferedFileStreamStrategy.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.IO.Stream.Dispose() at NfoMetadata.Savers.BaseNfoSaver.SaveToFile(Stream stream, String path, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at NfoMetadata.Savers.BaseNfoSaver.Save(BaseItem item, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Providers.Manager.ProviderManager.SaveMetadata(BaseItem item, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, ItemUpdateType updateType, IMetadataSaver[] savers, CancellationToken cancellationToken) Source: System.Private.CoreLib TargetSite: Void WriteAtOffset(Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle, System.ReadOnlySpan`1[System.Byte], Int64) InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied Source: TargetSite: My question: What could possibly still go wrong? I know everything looks like a classic linux permission problem, I just already tried many configurations with no luck. Is there another cause for this problem? Or am I missing something else? I hope you can help me Thank you!

This is another brand-new plugin which is available in the catalog now: Emby Data Explorer Important Note Make sure to clear your browser cache after installation and restarting the server! History In 2016 I was working on Metadata Providers and wanted to see and better understand which metadata is coming from which provider and which information was actually taken by Emby Server. In turn, I had created the MetadataViewer Plugin. Later, it became outdated and I was no longer around to update, so eventually it had to be pulled due to incompatibilities after the server had evolved. Meanwhile, there had also been an idea for a "Backstage View" plugin with the purpose to provide some low-level insights into Emby item data, but it never took off. This month, I came back to some work on metadata providers and I had the same problems again, which ended up in creating this plugin. It's a fusion of the MetadataViewer plugin and the Backstage View concept - with a name that leaves room for more... Beta For now, it's available for the beta server only It's been done in two and a half days, so please report bugs in case you find any How it Works The plugin adds a new entry to the Item Context Menu: This will open a dialog for data display: This dialog is the one and only UI that the plugin provides. Everything is happening there. I will describe individual features in subsequent topics. ENJOY!

Starting from today, a new metadata plugin is available in the catalog: TV Maze Metadata Provider This is a highly efficient metadata provider for TV series which is safe to add as it has very low impact on library scanning performance. Features: A single API request per series provides all data: series, season, episode, seriesimage, seasonimage, episodeimage and extra images (banner, logo, backdrop) New 2-stage caching mechanism Single JSON file per series/person In-Memory Cache with auto-expiration Failed lookup caching (with auto-expiration) Uses TvMaze update checking mechanism Works by timestamp comparison Cached files do not expire by fixed interval Added episode matching by name and air date Metadata Providers TvMazeSeriesProvider TvMazeEpisodeProvider TvMazeSeasonProvider TvMazePersonProvider Image Providers TvMazeSeriesImageProvider TvMazeEpisodeImageProvider TvMazeSeasonImageProvider TvMazePersonImageProvider Limitations Provides metadata in English language only (but it is able to identify series and episodes by original title) Updates Version 4.8.0.20 (March 11, 2023) Now also provides crew information (people) for series Provides guest-cast and guest-crew information (people) for episodes

Hi all, I'm faced with metadata and pictures loading problem since the beginning of November (Synology NAS DS920+). For the sake of interest, I connected the NAS via VPN (Netherland) and all the pictures (movie descriptions) loaded immediately. Please specify the addresses of the sites from which metadata and images are downloaded, I will add their routing via VPN on the router.

I wanted to show year and band name under icons on music videos, so I turned those on. It became immediately apparent that the year shown was often not the year that should be in the metadata. Assuming I had done something wrong, I went through an exercise of manually updating all the incorrect Year fields, one by one. Frequently (not always) I would enter a year, click save and the resulting display on the icon page would then show the year between 1 and 3 years earlier than the year I just entered in the metadata. Opening the metadata again for that video, the Year field was indeed changed from what I entered. It makes no difference whether the "Lock this item to prevent future changes" is ticked or not so it doesn't appear to be changing it due to external metadata. This doesn't happen with every video I manually update, but I would roughly estimate 40% display this behaviour. Going back into the metadata and changing it a second time seems to always fix it. Browser: Opera Operating system: 64-bit Windows 10, version: 91.0.4516.77 Emby server version: 4.7.8.0 running on Asustor (Nimbustor) NAS embyserver (1).txt

I'm running into an issue getting metadata and images for content being added to my library. The short-short is that it works fine when I first start emby but at some point, the indexer (such as Fanart.tv, TMDB, etc.) starts blocking ("connection refused") the requests. Most of the time, powering off the box for a couple minutes and then bringing it back up clears the problem for a time. Sometimes connections are still refused and the restart process has to be repeated. The frequency in which this happens ranges from hours to days and I'm struggling to catch a correlation between the incidents and library change volume. This seems like a threshold issue in that my configuration is generating too many requests, but I'm not seeing it. Libraries are configured for real time monitoring with advance pulls. Looking at scheduled tasks status' I see they are only firing when content is added. In reviewing my configuration it also raised a question or two. So, here I am, asking for advice from those who love and know emby on what I'm missing and how to correct this. For the questions, the 2 biggest are; 1) How does emby generate/maintain API keys for the various indexers? In looking at several generations of the server logs I see that the key is consistent for each indexer. Is the key unique to each emby installation or shared by all installations? The latter could be significant in my configuration as I route most all of my internet traffic, emby and otherwise, through a commercial VPN. My ISP knows enough about me and my family. They don't need to know more. 2) Is it possible to use my own api keys for the indexers? If so, how? NOTE: I'd really rather not have to go this route. SERVER INFO: NOTE: All external requests do go through a VPN Thanks in advance for any assistance you all can offer.

Hi, I have set up a mixed content folder and now try to manually correct the incorrect data. However, it is not possible to change a wrong identified tv show to a movie based on the ID, because the ID will only select tv. Can this be changed?

Hi there! I'm trying to add an album from "Turilli / Lione Rhapsody" but emby detects as a collaboration album and creates two different artists: "Turilli" and "Lione Rhapsody" Is there a way to add it correctly or I need to replace this character with another one, like "-" for example?

For audiobooks, I organize each series as an album. So for example, Harry Potter would have seven books within the series. However, when the Album tag is read by Emby, it gives each book the same cover image regardless of the image metadata on each file. I would like to see each file's metadata be utilized individually instead of just the first one when it comes to the cover image as well.

Hello all, I've been slowly converting my Music library into Emby, and I am noticing something that is a slight annoyance. It seems to be at random but Emby does not always import the Overview metadata for the album from MusicBrainz. Sometimes I have to click on the link for MusicBrainz Release Group id, and copy the Wikipedia data off the website myself. I can't find any reason why sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. Has anybody else run into this? Thanks!

28 Jan 2025 There are currently 705,726 Movie entries in the database and still growing.... Update - 18 July 2024 OK, so in this update you have the option to Prefer Extended Cast Information So, What does that mean? ADM by default gets the cast as listed from various websites as comma seperated values which it has saved in its database (it doesnt connect to these sites). e.g. for this movie (https://www.jeedoo.com/product/1958794-Big-Booty-White-Girls/) the ADM information server will have added to its database:- the CSV data: Somina, Luisa Rosso, Isobel, Mia Bang, Melanie Crush (Click Details to see this information on the site) ADM will then add the cast Names as Entries, but will NOT assign them with a provider id unless it detects one in the server data directory for that person . To do that you will need this turned on. Without provider ids, the same name will link across all records as tthe same person. A provider id ensures that the person has their own unique record. The feature mentioned here (Prefer Extended Cast Information) will not use the CSV Data, but will check the ADM Server for a data file which contains Actors WITH provider ids, like this: Director: Justin Slayer [IAFDG:2a51536e-201f-4a2d-a6a8-272ba1616184] Cast: Boz [IAFDG:6813ec37-79e0-4c24-a645-912ee51d12af] Cast: H. J. [IAFDG:2f75a80a-0fb4-40a7-bffb-0e0c795b98dd] Cast: Isabel Ice [IAFDG:71213e4d-009c-4988-a8bc-01052ec450c8] Cast: Justin Slayer [IAFDG:2a51536e-201f-4a2d-a6a8-272ba1616184] Cast: Luissa Rosso [IAFDG:01e7889a-c8bc-4873-8dfb-8f7a14cb91b3] Cast: Bibi Fox [IAFDG:4151f36c-67c0-4e41-8ee4-8977bc18ec41] Cast: Mia Bangg [IAFDG:55680d57-d9ff-4934-9534-1b63b4873c10] Cast: Simone Peach [IAFDG:017fde93-7a52-4eed-81cd-0cd6a99292cd] It will then Import the Cast Information WITH provider ids. You will also notice that these names are not always the same as the CSV data that may have aliases instead of the actors career name. THere may be more data available too, in this example there is more actors listed with more complete names. If this information is not avaliabe (yet), it will automatically fall back to the CSV data AND will look up if there are any provider ids avaliable for this person within this movie data. This is a further expansion on the update from the 15th July 2024 Because Adult information is so mixed up across sites and can be severely limited in different areas, ADM utilises several different methods to complete the information as much as possible. Currently because of this ADM is not as fast as Tmdb etc ADMv2(18July2024).zip Update - 15 July 2024 Added more provider id support for actors/directors/writers/producers, ADM will check if there is a known provider id for the actor it is adding at the time of adding the movie, this will help to prevent same actors for different movies that have a the same name, but are a different person. This should now make emby create an entry for each individual, and not just one that fits all. Example: Joey Valentine There are at least two actors/performers with this name one is male (gay) and the other is femae (no longer living), However there is a large directory of movies between them. https://www.iafd.com/person.rme/id=b491f839-740f-4129-bae1-4dd4e3b450e1 https://www.iafd.com/person.rme/id=d2e06ba1-b01b-42b5-a4ed-ae9ae82c2d7f This setting needs to be on to pull this information: Disclaimer about this update: Please note there are still errors in ADM database where incorrect information may be pulled, but this is getting fixed on a daily basis, and over time it will be more and more accurate. This is a relatively new addition and will have more and more information in time. This is also not supported in earlier versions, unless download actor images was on. The provider ids will fetch now without download images being on, but there are also a few more provider ids supported. ADMv2(15July2024-Update2).zip Update - 12 July 2024 Small update to fix/address a null results error that was occasionally occuring with identify returning 0 results when there are results. This may have also affected normal metadata scrape results. (it should also address a timeout loop that this was causing) Please report if it still occurs. If you have logging on, you may see " Something went wrong ....." in the GetMetadata Log where this was happening, I know about this - there's no need to report this. It a debug message for me, that lets me know that it tried to go into a timeout loop. Its just there for my own readability. The timeout loop is still there , but this detected and ecaped from now. I still have to figure out why its happening, but with this update it should work like its not there anymore, ie:- behave like its fixed. Although I havent found the root cause yet, this will allow the results to display and be used Thanks @Sid10for reporting this ADMv2(12July2024).zip !! Update !! - Access key change! 26 May 2024 Currently this is just for testing, please post your findings Please blur any pictures you might post and censor your words in the interest of keeping to the forum rules and restricting content to minors. This is an Adult movie Metadata provider. (It does not provide scenes information some scenes and vod are now avaliable if their metadata are available like a dvd (list will probably never be complete), The plugin mainly supports full released commercial movies!) It fetches movie covers and data if available, It is not perfect (not all info is avaliable for every item), if you want something fixing - let me know! This key is now dissabled !!! Use the personal access key 1234 is the settings page. current key is: "15-05-2024" There are currently over 560,000 movies (with covers) in the database - many now with people images!. (currently about 15,000 people images- many cross referenced to alias names too) 26 May 2024 A couple of fixes for MovieList Updates - if file doesn't exist & locked Metadata Data File. ADMv2(26May2024).zip 15 May 2024 I have replaced the internal database update feature, so that it updates differently, Now it will update daily (if it is turned on), or when its ran if its not a recent daily update. This will vastly increase metadata scanning speed, especially when everyone has left the previous version. This is because the internal database is now over 15mb and is now taking a toll on my server as it is being downloaded excessively due to the previous methods. The previous versions updated every single time it detected that the online versions filesize was greater than the offline version and that inluded even if there was only 1 movie added to it, There is no longer any need to update it so often. Turning off daily update in the settings page will also increase speeds. There will be no waiting for an update or any clash waiting for the update file to be released by the server if the server is writing to the file. You do not need it on unless the item you are wanting to fetch was added since it was updated in the online database, or since it was last turned on, or you dont have the database on your system. I have also changed the access key - in order to make users come here and see that theres an update. Any issues with a missing database or corrupt database file, then delete the cached db in emby cache folder - cache\ADM\AdultMovieList.txt The obtain a Key link is fixed, but will redirect you to an information page - where you can also donate if you wish to keep this plugin alive. Older Information 21 May 2023 - Fix Errors of last build * not contacting server fixed (Should now contact the LIVE server) * building collections - should be fixed! (Plugin reports that it does, but not tested thoroughly) * download actor/cast images if available on server (not text metadata for actors) * Fixed Extended Providers (need Adult Provider Id Plugin for this - not yet publlished) - it adds many links to the bottom of your page that can be clicked to go to other sites, and adds metadata edit boxes for these values. - ADM metadata will also supply some of these values like this: Updated database - approx 20,000 new additions 22 May 2023 Update 22May2023 Update adds downloading person images as a toggle in options. Also adds framework for movie requests if you send a javlibrary link, please use the /en/ link Identify fixed Update 23 May 2023 Collections work properly and do infact build Properly! javgg has been changed to javlibrary, the request server is up and running! Everything will work now Update 24 May 2023 A few simple but important changes. ADM now takes live online database updates so that within seconds of the database online updating the information is available to the plugin. Small fix to image provider. Please let me know of any issues Update 25 May 2023 Changed DB Update logging to only show when there is an actual update rather than everytime it checks. A few minor string operations to help make sure there are fewer errors incase of receiving bad data from the DB (Mainly JAV Genres) - the DB is in process of repairing these aswell. Update 28 May 2023 Different search / identify algorithm and detect for library scan. I think its more accurate and faster. However might be a little less lenient of titles that are less exact match of the originals names. Try it, and see Update 17 July 2023 This is a new plugin based upon the old one - a lot of code was re-written. We are now on Version 2. To use this one please remove the old version, and install this one. This version should be a lot faster! - Typically 3-4 seconds per movie with logging turned on, even faster when logging is off! They both have different plugin ids, so they will both be valid and visible together however there might be a little crossover in the code so Id recommend removing/backing up the earlier version. Occasionaly Identify instantly returns nothing. I have not figured out why yet, but do it again and it works. This version contain the FIX to Identify Image fetching that was faulty in the earlier version. Logging slows it down (Disk access writes!), ONLY log when trying to find out if something is wrong! Update 19 July 2023 This is quite a big update to be fair! 1. All searches (except person at the moment) now display Thumbnails (if they can - server now has most images as thumbnails too) in the web dialogs rather than the original full size images this greatly improves rendering speed of the results pages & lowers memory overhead. 2 ADMv2 now has its own Person fetcher, when you click the image placeholder. If my server has the metadata for the person, it will update - even with imdb/tmdb id's if it has them!. - This is a new addition! 3. ADMv2's new person fetcher has a working identify/image search too! 4. Prep work is in place for when I add backdrops to the server. However there is now an option to grab the full dvd (full landscape front & back) covers as backdrops if you wish. If enabled these will show in backdrop searches. (As of today there are no actual backdrops on the server but they will work the instant I add some). On the server the ones currently available are fullcovers mostly for the tens of thousands of JAV titles. 5. Partial Prep work is now there for Extended Cast information, this will be another way to get more Provider id's and better Cast records - which in turn enable the correct information to be fetched by Tmdb or TvMaze. Its not working yet, but the ground work is almsot complete so thats why you can see it. This will get know actor names when aliases have been used on dvd releases and use them instead. This can also be achieved with ADMv2's Person metadata refresh, but when this part is ready it will add it at initial import of the movie! 6. Logging has been improved and split accross files of each timestamped activity. Leave dissabled for speed. Use when you want to find out whats not working and why. 7. Server content has just had a massive update to approximately 280,000 movies! inluding lots of JAV. 6 Aug 2023 Seems something can throw an error in identify. - found the returning nothing error, dont know what causes it yet, but it now recovers & continues. 06.Aug.2023 - 08.51.10 Checking item: Best of Mac Daddy (2000) 06.Aug.2023 - 08.51.10 Failure in ADM Movie Search Verify Item! System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at ADMv2.ADMMetadataProvider.GetSearchResults(MovieInfo searchInfo, CancellationToken cancellationToken) The error was stopping identify in its tracks, and returning 0 results. 06.Aug.2023 - 09.23.46 Failure in ADM Movie Search Verify Item 83! Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object ) at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1[T0,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0) at ADMv2.ADMMetadataProvider.GetSearchResults(MovieInfo searchInfo, CancellationToken cancellationToken) I have not 100% identified the error yet, but have added a recovery error trap to ADM so it recovers and continues and displays the rest of the results. I have aslo fixed the Identify logging so you can see what its doing and what seach (found) item throws the error. I have also added a log option to show where the data is missing from the server - log XML Errors 8 Aug 2023 Identified another issue with identify failing, MovieList file lock causing Identify to abruptly fail resulting in 0 results when media adding/metadata scanning at the same time uses the same file. * Added a wait until file lock release to the MovieList (Up to 5 Second delay), should be less than 1 sec for any of the ADM processes. This will also work in scanning metadata and adding items to the library, so *should* prevent anything failing to use the MovieList for lookups. Pleae note: that the speed of the search depends of the words you use, if you use something common such as "girlfriend" then you will get 1000's of results and the dialog may take a few minutes to respond. If you use something a bit more precise it may take only a second or two and return only a few results. 27 Aug 2023 Fix for Person Image Identify - Shows thumbs in image search and retieves Images on select. Added Natural Sort Order to Movie Identify 2 Sept 2023 Fix for Catastrophic Failure in Movie Identify Fix for Invalid Key - failure to fetch data Online Database has moved to faster storage 17 Sept 2023 * Fixed Docker / Truenas download to cache failing * Added backup method for above incase it still fails. *Known Issue, logs stop writing at 5121kb.. The plugin still works, just the logs stop. This is a log rotation point in ADM, I am aware of it and working on fixing the issue. 21 Sept 2023 * Fixed Log FIle Rotating (Im not sure if library scanning stopped ADM at the log rotation point, but its fixed now anyway) * Better Update Handling for db additions on live server 22 Sept 2023 * Finally found the error in Identify when it finds many results but fails to display them - THIS IS NOW FIXED!! This was not easy to find but it turns out that it was an easy fix once I found it. The error appeared to be random, but actually it wasn't. It was an error parsing data from the server on a record, so returning an item with null (nothing) to emby, cancelled the whole list of items.. 16 Oct 2023 * A few bug fixes * Ability to add actor aliases as tags Any other Actor/Actress Tagged with these will show when you click the tag (note tags display has changed in the latest betas) 17 Oct 2023 * Fix Thumbnails in web preview dialogs for Person Images and searches * Fix Person image failure when server image path contained Japanese characters * Fix Issue with Provider Id's being sent in person Image lookup 6 Nov2023 * Fix invalid json array in people search, a few other various fixes here. Identify seems to work even better now. * Background changes to server people db * More support for extended provider keys , Unless you have installed the provider id extender plugin (another beta unfinished plugin) and have some enabled this wont make a differnce to you (What this does is provide more weblinks like twitter, instagram, onlyfans etc and allows more ids to be stored for a unique person record id, rather than one that gets misread/crossover with another person of the same name) There are no instructions within the plugin, but you can try reading the original thread. , Getting nearer to an actual fully working version 18 Nov 2023 * Double Date error in Movie Identify Feature resolved - it was preventing metadata assigning correctly * Double Date error in Movie Get Images via Identify resolved - it was preventing Poster Image assigning correctly 11 Dec 2023 * Directors / Writers should be fully working now. Note there aren't that many writers known (wheres the script anyway for this stuff??) , but lots more directors. ADMv2(15July2024).zip

I'm working on setting up an Audio Book library and it is not pulling in the embedded metadata, specifically the images, correctly. When pulling in multiple books in one "Album", I would expect to see each book's individual cover. Instead I am seeing all books with the cover image of the first one. (Image: Wrong.png) I have found a workaround by removing the file's Album metadata tag (I use Mp3tag), loading the books into Emby, and then manually changing the Emby Album tag for each book. (Image: Right.png) However, this is a very tedious process with hundreds of audio books. Not to mention that if I accidentally hit "Refresh Metadata" or need to redo my Emby server for some reason, then it would take hours of work to get it back to where I want it. Thank you for looking into this.

Hi, I have 2 tv-shows in my library that somehow doesn't get metadata downloaded. If I go into Metadata Editor (both for the show, season and episode) I can see that Emby has the right ID for the show on thetvdb.com and IMDB, which both has at least some text descriping the specific episode. But the text doesn't get downloaded into Emby. The shows are named like "show name S01E01 episode name", but I have tried without episode name which didn't make any difference. The episodes are located in a folder named "Season 1" which in turn are located in a folder named "show name". I have tried to look at the log files, but as I don't know what to look for it is not easy. Does anyone has any idea on how I can fix this issue?

I am wondering what is the use of this people slot for each artists, as why would one add a composer or writer directly under an artist's metadata but not within the song's one. Also, I tried to add a person by typing his name but the dialog just closes after I push the Enter button, and nothing shows up under people. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

If I add new movies to Emby the movie metadata isn't downloaded directly. If I manually Identify the movie only some metadate (like Images and Title) are fetched. Other metadata (like Plot and Actors) are not downloaded. I only use TMDB as metadata provider. For example I tried the movie Independence Day (1996). The complete metadata of this movie is available on TMDB, but it's not downloaded completely:e I also appended the Logs ("CompleteLog.txt") and already identified a relevant section ("RelevantLogSection.txt"). Emby reports an Error in TheMovieDB that states: I already restarted my NAS (Synology DS 220+), restarted Emby (Version 4.7.4.0), tried different movies and used the Refresh Meta button. In Addition the metadata fetching was possible until yesterday. RelevantLogSection.txt CompleteLog.txt

Hi - I'm experiencing an unusual problem associated with reading Metadata updates. I'm running Emby Server with a PPTP/VPN server and NGINX reverse proxy server. In general Emby works as expected (remote connections to the server and streaming are all possible) but for some reason, when connected to the VPN Metadata updates (and I think EPG updates) cannot be read. I've tested this and the problem is repeatable. When the server is connected to the internet via the VPN connection Metadata updates and searches cannot be read, when connected to the local ISP internet provision then Metadata updates can be read. I've attached the error log which may give some indication as to the source of the problem. I'm confident it isn't a Firewall problem and I've checked routing for both Ports 8096 and 8920. I'm fairly confident the problem is something to do with the interaction between the NGINX server and the VPN connection. I'd welcome any suggestions from folk as to how I might fix this problem . Thank you. embyserver(3).txt

Greetings, I've updated the embedded images for an audiobook album with Picard, but I can't seem to get emby to see the change. In Picard, you can see I've updated the embedded image for the whole album in the bottom right corner: Yet in emby, it still shows the old embedded image: There are no images like `cover.jpg` or anything like that in the album folder. I'm only sourcing from the embedded images for the album. I only have external image fetchers enabled for artists: On songs, I only have the image extractor enabled: Here are some of the things I've tried: I tried refreshing Metadata with replace images checked on: the entire audiobook library, the album, every individual file within the album I tried removing the album and readding it I tried deleting my entire audiobook library, then readding it. Because I've tried deleting and readding it, I'm assuming some sort of cached image keeps getting reused. Is there some way to prevent that? Or to clear out that cached image? I tried `Vacuum the database on the next Emby Server startup`, but that didn't seem to help at all. Any help would be appreciated. I've been pulling my hair on this one for a couple hours now... embyserver.txt

Hi, so i reorganized my YT Backup/downloaded library to include more metadata. I am basically using <Videotitle> - <Uploaddate> - <YTVideoid>. but instead of registering for example 2022-05-14 as full date it detects it as from the year 20220514. Any idea how to fix it or define certain positions in the file name as year / month / day bc when you count the letters from the back of the file name the yt id is 11 characters on every video then space - space and then the date Regards :)

I am changing my home Emby server from an Ubuntu based .deb package installation to a Docker setup. I did not realise that you could keep all the metadata, images and subtitles in each Movie or TV Show folder. Is it possible to wave a magic wand and copy all the current metadata, images and subtitles (gathered over the years!) to each of the Movie or TV Show folders when I install Emby using Docker? I guess this is Docker independant and it would be best to do this operation before the change to Docker? /var/lib/emby/metadata/ --> /srv/storage/Emby/Movies/Movie Name (YEAR)/Movie Name (YEAR).nfo etc I await your magic wand. Paully