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Movie Collections with "&" in the name self duplicating


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Jephisto

Since upgrading to Emby 4.6.2.0, I noticed a few of my movie collections getting duplicated. It seems to be related to the presence of the Ampersand character in the set name. (Note: This is on an ASUSTOR AS-5304T NAS).

Here's the example of "Harold & Kumar Collection":

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I've attempted to delete one or the other collection. But the duplication keeps coming back.

In the "nfo" of each movie, I see the following line:  <set>Harold &amp; Kumar Collection</set>
 

I've deleted both collections and changed the set in the "nfo" to: <set>Harold and Kumar Collection</set>

Well, then (after a metadata scan) it shows 3 collections:

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And in the "nfo", I now see 2 set tags:

  <set tmdbcolid="30663">
    <name>Harold &amp; Kumar Collection</name>
  </set>
  <set tmdbcolid="30663">
    <name>Harold and Kumar Collection</name>
  </set>

 

At this point, I am running out of workaround strategies. Hence my cry for help.

Thank you so much for your assistance!

Jeff

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Hello Jephisto,

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Jephisto

Thank you Cayars for the quick reply.

Just in case this might be helpful: I've played some more with it. Although I couldn't find a clear pattern to the duplication and triplication (I admit not knowing what happens behind the scene), here's a way that seems to work around the issue:

1) Delete all folders related to "Harold & Kumar" in emby/metadata/collections

2) In each of the "Harold & Kumar" movie ".nfo" files specify the set as:

  <set tmdbcolid="30663">
    <name>Harold and Kumar Collection</name>
  </set>

After that there is only one collection folder created and it appears to remain so even after several library and metadata scans.

Thanks!

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I just went into the wrong one in the UI and removed the movies in my test from the wrong collection.

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I would try again with Emby Server 4.6.4 as I can't seem to reproduce this. To test, I added three harold & kumar movies with no preexisting nfo, and just let the server generate everything.

I only got one collection. Then after that I tried refreshing metadata, running additional library scans, etc. I was not able to get the server to create a duplicated collection.

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Jephisto

Since I've been to 4.6.4 for a while, I just removed my workaround modifications to the "nfo" files of the Harold & Kumar movies.

After running a library and metadata scans, the collection still looks good. So it appears that this issue is now resolved.

Thank you Luke for taking the time to look into this.

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