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Hey everyone, I put this tool together last night to fix a small and trivial inconvenience that sometimes arises within the default .nfo files that Emby generates. It's available now and there's a download link at the bottom of my post. Simply run the program and paste the path to your content library to have this tool analyze each and every .nfo file sequentially. Works for both tv shows and movies, and also allows full or partial reordering. Having Python installed on your machine is the only prerequisite. EXAMPLE SCENARIO Below is an example of the tool fixing my .nfo for Alien with Sigourney Weaver starring. However, for some reason, Tom Skerritt was showing as the first actor in my Emby display, when the movie CLEARLY stars Sigourney Weaver, who is unjustly showing as actor 2 (see below). Processing file: /var/lib/emby/media/movies/HDD1/movies/Alien Film Franchise [Directors Cut-Special Edition-Unrated] 1979-2012/Alien Directors Cut - Sci-Fi 1979 Eng Subs 720p [H264-mp4].nfo Current order of actors in /var/lib/emby/media/movies/HDD1/movies/Alien Film Franchise [Directors Cut-Special Edition-Unrated] 1979-2012/Alien Directors Cut - Sci-Fi 1979 Eng Subs 720p [H264-mp4].nfo: 1: Tom Skerritt as Dallas 2: Sigourney Weaver as Ripley 3: Veronica Cartwright as Lambert 4: Harry Dean Stanton as Brett 5: John Hurt as Kane 6: Ian Holm as Ash 7: Yaphet Kotto as Parker 8: Bolaji Badejo as Alien 9: Helen Horton as Mother (voice) Enter the new order of actors by numbers separated by spaces (e.g., '5 6 4 8 2' or just '5 6 4' to partially re-order), or press Enter to skip this file: 2 1 New order of actors: 1: Sigourney Weaver as Ripley 2: Tom Skerritt as Dallas 3: Veronica Cartwright as Lambert 4: Harry Dean Stanton as Brett 5: John Hurt as Kane 6: Ian Holm as Ash 7: Yaphet Kotto as Parker 8: Bolaji Badejo as Alien 9: Helen Horton as Mother (voice) As you can see from the output above, the user simply has to type the desired order of the actors using the original list as an identifier. In the above example case, typing 2 1 means actor #2 first, actor #1 second, then leave the order of the rest of the cast and crew alone. I could have reorganized the cast and crew in any arbitrary order or depth though, like 2 1 5 3 4 6 7 and it would rearrange the actors to a further depth. The tool also automatically locks the .nfo file if you do decide to reorganize the actors to prevent Emby from overwriting the changes. It does not lock the .nfo file if the user skips over it. It's available for download here on my GitHub. If anyone has any issues using the tool or any feedback for additional features to enhance the ease of use and user experience then please let me know!

A couple weeks ago I noticed a bunch of missing cast and crew data completely missing on a bunch of newly added movies. I figured it might just be some temporary glitch so I manually selected "refresh metadata" which did not retrieve the cast and crew so I selected "Identify" and that did add the cast and crew info. A week or so later I looked at a few of the movies I "identified" and the cast and crew were missing again. I looked at my settings and thought I would try UN-checking the option "Automatically refresh metadata from the internet" AFTER I manually updated the titles missing cast and crew. It's a week later and the same titles are missing cast and crew again. Upon further inspection many (70-80%) of my movies are missing cast and crew and it seems all the new titles I have added in the last 1-2 weeks are missing cast and crew. A day or two ago I "identified" a few titles and then chose "Lock this item to prevent further changes" from the edit metadata section, so far those titles have retained their cast and crew data. Any ideas/suggestions? I have thousands of movies and would like to find a way to correct this other than manually going through every title. Any ideas? Log attached.

It would be nice if Emby could show additional movies (not in library) for People. I think Emby already has some functionality for showing movies that are not in library with the Trailers feature. Could that functionality + People metadata be used to show two separate lists when viewing a People entry: "Movies in Library" and "Additional Movies"?

When looking at cast of an episode, some clients aggregate the main show cast and the episode cast and some dont, MBC i thinks aggregates but does not show writer/directors. mbt shows episode crew including writers and directors, not show crew. Often it is not possible to use the cast interface provided by client to find other content by the cast member (because they are not present on the episode cast list but the show cast list which the client doesnt expose eg Samsung).. If the server api provided a consistent call to return a list of all deduplicated person/role pairs from the episode and the show then that might help ensure consistency across all clients. Eg the call might return person/role pairs eg Lena Dunham as Hanna, Actor2 as PartA, Actor3 as Part B, Lena Dunham as Writer, Lena Dunham as Director ..so the user can see the nuances..even though further drill down might loose the role specificity (and return all content by the person, grouped by role (actor, writer,director, composer,artist) or media type (tv, audio,movie,,,)) thanks for considering...