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Hi everyone, my library is looking like the naming guide shows (so every movie in a single folder with poster.jpg and nfo-Metadata). I want to sync unseen media to an external HDD which is working with Folder sync properly. My question is: Is it possible to sync the complete folder instead of only getting the folder and the .mkv-file? I am missing .jpg and .nfo-files...

I have a new problem now, please help me. I am currently using folder.jpg image and person.nfo in the actor folder. Emby matches and displays the photo and actor information, but when I edit and update the actor folder again after matching, the actor's photo and information disappear. My actor folder is called miru. I deleted the miru folder in people and then added it again, but Emby could no longer recognize it. I tried refreshing the metadata and scanning the media library, and also tried refreshing the media metadata separately in the person interface - scanning for missing data. None of them can be recognized. How should I make the photos appear again? Is this a bug? @Luke

Where does emby store actor images when only local nfo is used. I found that there is no people folder under metadata. How should I add all actor pictures at once. Can I put all the actors' photos into a folder and let emby read it?

I created a brand new container and all my movies have .nfo files (created by Emby). Here is an example of metadata not being imported during the initial scan: <isuserfavorite>true</isuserfavorite> <playcount>2</playcount> <watched>true</watched> <lastplayed>2024-03-12 03:48:30</lastplayed> <resume> <position>2049.88</position> <total>7144.704233</total> </resume> When I created the Movie library, I made certain to check “nfo” as a metadata provider. What is the right way to configure Emby to import this metadata?

Hi, I have an issue with all (aside one) my multi-segment episodes, their are displayed as one episode. I use the format : tvshow - S01E01-E02(-E0N) - title.ext OS : debian stretch Linux 5.0.21 x86_64 Emby version: 4.1.1.0 In the database data field of MediaItems does not contains IndexNumberEnd except for the working one. The only difference I see is the Kodi NFO (I didn't see something helpful in debug log btw), I forgot to set details of the second segment. Not working : (Two or more root) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> <episodedetails> <title>TITLE EP 1</title> <showtitle>TVSHOW</showtitle> <season>1</season> <episode>1</episode> ... <episodedetails> <episodedetails> <title>TITLE EP 2</title> <showtitle>TVSHOW</showtitle> <season>1</season> <episode>2</episode> ... <episodedetails> Working one : (Only one root) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> <episodedetails> <title>TITLE EP 1</title> <showtitle>TVSHOW</showtitle> <season>1</season> <episode>1</episode> ... <episodedetails> Usually XML parser doesn't like multiple root (and their are right), so it's maybe the issue here but unfortunately it's how Kodi wants them. Do you support Kodi multi-segment NFO ? (or maybe it's something else ?) Note : I just discover Emby and aside this small detail I really enjoy it. You are doing a great job.

I continue to experience the same problem with Music Library: Sort Title in nfo file is being overwritten by Emby. Example, this album with "...Meets the Saxophone Masters" as title, for which I changed SORTTITLE to "Meets the Saxophone Masters" (removing the starting ellipses). See images below: edited nfo has different Title and Sort Title, as do source files as viewed ion MP3Tag. Per @Luke's new guidance, I went into Folder view, did both Scan Files and Refresh Metadata on that folder and all its contents, but you can see in last image that nfo has been reverted to old, incorrect Sort Title. Log file is also attached. Why is Emby still not respecting either existing nfo nor embedded metadata? embyserver.txt

Emby server does not load sorttitle tag from nfo. "title" is loaded to "sort title". "title" tag and other tags are loaded successfully. my emby version: 4.8.1.0 on debian 12

Hi All. Looking for advice on the method under which emby creates an NFO and whether that behavior can be changed in the use case I'll describe below. I've recorded Live TV from NextPVR (with NextPVR Plugin). This seems to be recording correctly into its correct location with an NFO being generated. The NFO includes a PLOT tag with details that appear to be coming from the EPG stream. I don't know if NextPVR or emby is creating this NFO (although that's not really my question) although I suspect emby. The media is saved as TS, the NFO with the same filename. All seems correct. TS files aren't streaming well and following other posts in this forum have selected the Recordings folder to be converted, leaving the original, and to convert new content as it arrives in the folder. The conversion of the media seems to work OK with -tv added to the filename, but the new NFO is missing the PLOT details in the tag - the tag is there - just nothing in it. There is a whole heap of other tags and content in the new NFO although nothing seems to come from the initial NFO. Does/can emby take any of the existing content from the existing NFO, and then just supplement this with additional from the conversion process? Not sure I have an actual issue here so haven't posted screenshots or logs, but can. Pete Emby Server 4.8.0.80.

Until version 4.7.14.0 Emby Server for Docker There is no Save metadata and images as hidden files" (Dashboard-Library-Advanced) option yet I saw that the windows version already has this function. When will the docker version also implement it? I often need to use my computer to edit the metadata of the server.

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,

Hallo Zusammen, besteht die Möglichkeit bei der Detailansicht der Filme (wo zbsp. Plot, Besetzung & Mitwirkende, Marken, Links, Medieninformationen steht) sich zusätzliche Informationen aus der Metadaten NFO Datei anzeigen zu lassen? Ich würde gerne den Inhalt von <original_filename></original_filename> mir anzeigen lassen. LG Dicken

Hey all, Sometimes I have multiple entries for the same person and wanted to know if there is a way to alias one record to the other (I believe the genre plugin does something like this). 95% of the time this is due to Asian actor names where they are often credited differently. For example, I have "Sammo Hung" but also "Sammo Kam-Bo Hung" in my DB. It would be cool if I can just alias any DB records for Sammo Kam-Bo Hung to point to Sammo Hung. That way all his movies appear under Sammo Hung in the emby GUI. I'm fine with paying for a plugin if needed, I'm just hoping to avoid having to having to go and manually editing each record one by one.

Hello, Recently, I've been trying to script some bulk editing of the NFO file in my Emby Library. This was mostly just a fun project for myself to learn more with Python. Currently my biggest issue I'm running into is trying to update the video NFO file to use a new Poster. Whenever I edit the NFO file lines: <art> <poster>/config/metadata/library/37/3776ebd48296df86690cc5c678d8814e/poster.jpg</poster> </art> to something like: <art> <poster>/config/my_posters/MoviePoster.jpg</poster> </art> Then try to update the Metadata for the video in Emby, Emby will overwrite the poster data back to the original value. A couple notes on how I've set up my system. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Emby installed inside of a Docker Container. The media is stored a ZFS file set up across 3 mechanical hard drives and mapped to Emby via docker The Emby program and config files are on the SSD and mapped to Emby via docker My goal was to have the NFO and Posters on the SSD while the media files could live on the much larger drives. Currently, the NFO files live in the media folders (which means they are on the mechanical hard drives). I'm okay with keeping the NFO files on the mechanical drives. I was hoping to keep the loading times down on the thumbnails, but it's possible that the NFO file has to be accessed before loading the thumbnails so I might be shooting myself in the foot. Also, I am aware that it's probably overkill keeping the thumbnails on the SSD, but I really prefer my system to be as snappy as possible. (I have thousands of videos in certain directories, so any optimizations can make a difference). My main questions are: Is there a way to update the poster via the NFO? Or am I doing something incorrectly. Do you think NFO files on the mechanical disks would bottleneck the posters enough to the point where keeping the posters on the mechanical disks wouldn't matter? Thanks for any help you can provide, and sorry if I posted this in the wrong subforum

For Blu-ray movies in the form of folders, emby’s nfo files are located in the outer folder, while other software such as kodi are located in the BDMV folder. The difference in the location of their nfo files makes them not universal, which is very inconvenient. I cannot use emby's nfo file in other soft. Is there a way to make emby's nfo files stored in the BDMV folder by default。

Starting from the October release 1.34, the extra fanarts pictures (fanart1, fanart2, ...) are not more saved in the folder "extrafanart" this is required for Kodi compatibility. Moreover is not more working the option to copy extrafanart into extrathumbs. I cannot estimate exactly the release that broken the compatibility since also the plugin downgrade to the previous release is not working.

I'm in the process of moving my music collection away from Apple Music and into emby. The easy part of getting my music in emby is done, now comes the whole "making sure everything has the correct metadata" bit. I have a few questions based on this: 1. Does emby not differentiate between singles, eps and albums etc... I have noticed that emby just displays everything as Albums, even though on MusicBrainz things are split - see here for an example Billy Talent - MusicBrainz 2. I have the following libraries: TV Shows, Movies, Stand Up and Music. I also have the NFOMetadata plugin installed. I have made sure that Nfo is selected under Metadata Savers, but only see nfo files for TV Shows and Movies.

Hi, I'm an Emby user since 2 or 3 months ago. Still experimenting on some things, but I'm already on a production scenario, with hundreds of items. I've spent a lot of time customizing metadata for single items, and such. As I'm an Emby Premiere user, I'm using the Emby Backup plugin to backup everything in case of disaster. However, I've read recently on other similar posts, and later I confirmed according to the wiki here: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup That the Emby Backup plugin does not backup metadata at all. According to the wiki, it's recommended to store local metadata to media folders. Until now, I just didn't use this option because I didn't want Emby to have write access to my media library. So I prefered to let Emby save metadata in its internal database, and use the Emby Backup plugin to backup the data. But given that metadata cannot be backed up this way, I can switch to store it on local media folders. In case I want to enable the option to store metadata to media folders, how would be a safe way to do the migration? Is it enough enabling the option "Nfo" on each library? Should I also enable the "Saving pictures on media folders"? (Sorry I have my Emby on Spanish and I'm translating the option, not sure if it's named that way). I guess I should enable both if I want it to store all metadata on the library, with its info/plots/customized artwork items, etc... And more importantly, I already have lots of valuable customized metadata for my libraries. What will happen when I enable this option to store metadata on library folders? Will Emby migrate all existing (emby-database) metadata to the nfo format and store it to the correct place on my library? I don't want to lose customized posters, etc... so I want to make sure it will save my existing metadata instead of downloading it again from the scrappers. And well, in case the migration is not a safe process, is there any other way to make this migration? And in case there is no other way, is there any good way of backing up the folders where emby stores this data? I guess images are stored as files and other metadata is stored in a specific table on a database? I'm guessing alot here, but shouldn't it be possible to automate some type of reliable backup copying the folder and making a dump of the table where metadata is stored? In case it matters, I'm using Emby 4.5.2.0 on a Synology x86-64 NAS. I kow I'm asking lots of things here. Thanks for any attention you give. Congratulations for this great software. I hope it gets better and better over time. Sincerely,

I have been doing some manual updating of some of my nfo files (updating outside of Emby, so I can batch edit). I am finding that the only way for Emby to read the new nfo, is to remove the video file, library scan, and then re-add the file. Am I missing something here? I can't see an option to read the nfo, without doing the above. If I select 'edit metadata', the original medata is displayed, not the new metatdata

Hi, I’m moving my Emby install due to install issues with my distro. When I moved Emby to the current distro, instead of pulling the metadata from the saved NFO files and the images also saved within the media itself, it pulled from online - even when there wasn’t any data and overwrote a bunch of data that I had worked really hard to get right. Now I have to start all over fixing those erasing days of work that I have to redo now. Is there a way to get Emby to pull from the saved NFO and images first - and only download if I’m missing metadata so that it doesn’t overwrite the good data that’s been saved? Thanks so much for any info or assistance!

Hi There, I have been going through over the last couple of days getting my music library sorted out within emby but having an issue with the artist.nfo files been read that i have generated myself. I have tried to look round to get an answer for this before posting but was struggling to find an answer. I am sure there must be something wrong with either a setting or the wording i have used in the .NFO file but am not really sure what tbf. I have no issues with the album NFO's been generated and i am able to edit them with the information I want in them and that shows fine, as i said must be something to do with how i have sent the NFO up i am guessing. As an example please see attached artist NFO and maybe someone can point me in the right direction for getting emby to read it. Thanks Andy Artist.nfo

This is an odd one. I'm running Windows server 4.4.0.40 and Synology Emby Server 4.3.1.0. Both have the same issue. The .nfo file was generated using Tiny Media Manager. I have deleted it and regenerated and it doesn't help. If I manually edit the rating to 6.2, then refresh metadata, it displays fine; only 1 decimal place. Then I change it back to 6.1 and it goes to the 8 decimal places again. Looks to be specific to a rating of 6.1! https://imgur.com/a/V4HriS4

Hi I'm doing a backup test on my mac. I used the server configuration backup extension (plugins) to do my restoration and I copied the metadata in the root folder where the metadata is located after the scan and that before scanning the libraries. The process is as long as if I hadn't transferred the metadata. I wonder if this is normal or if I should also use the NFO extension. In fact I am not sure what exactly this extension does apart from creating .nfo files next to each file. Thank you Edit: I think I used the metadata of another version of Emby that I had installed and which was not in .config but just before in my username folder. I believe that a simple way to restore on clean installation would be to copy and paste the emby-server folder as well as that of the application. @@dcol @@PenkethBoy @@Smaky

Hi, I am using QNap TS-873 since 2 weeks. I have installed emby 4.3.1 successfully. Now, I have moved my files (home videos) of the windows PC to the NAS. Unfortunately every displayed title of the mp4 files contains the filename. Imagine: I am recording my game session playin' Quake2. After gaming I tag / enrich the mp4 files with title, subtitle, description, marks in the file's detail. Using the windows version, the title will correct displayed in Emby, using the same in QNap Emby, the filename is displayed not the title or description. How can I correct or solve this? Thx

How often does Emby write data to .nfo files? More specifically, after a file is uploaded, provided that it is a valid TV episode or Movie file, when does an .nfo metadata file for the item get created? Nevermind, I found that my nfs share mounted read-only, so the data is not getting saved. The server is trying to create the .nfo file at scan time, but can't save it. Please disregard.

Quick question! Historically, I've always saved my metadata/nfo/artwork with my media files. More recently I have been experimenting with uploading my content to Google Drive through rclone. My question is, if it would be a good idea to continue saving the metadata with the media files (in this case Google Drive), or if it would be faster Emby experience if it was saved locally on the machine (in this case Nvidia Shield). The main reason I was thinking of saving it on Google Drive was because I will most likely have to update my media files as I expand my collection. For example, if I currently have a 1080p file and eventually purchase and upload the 2160p version, I will need to rename the files and metadata files as well as create folders for my content. My primary concern was internet speeds. My download speed is restricted 100mbps and even we are the only users, I wasn't sure if that would be fast enough to quickly load all the images on the front-end Emby app. Whereas if I were to save it locally on the server (Nvidia Shield), I would assume it would be very quick. I will be experimenting with this in most likely a month, but I wanted to get your experiences in the meantime.