eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) I have two TV series which display the wrong episodes, or rather, they display only 1 when there are several. They are japanese, so maybe Emby doesn't understand that. Is there a manual index file one can create to make all episodes appear in the TV series listing, or is there a way (on an LG TV) to list all files in a folder and play them that way? Please, no suggestions on renaming the files. That is not an option. Edited July 25, 2021 by eobetdisajn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abobader 2942 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Hello eobetdisajn, ** This is an auto reply ** Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you. It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread: Thank you. Emby Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, eobetdisajn said: I have two TV series which display the wrong episodes, or rather, they display only 1 when there are several. They are japanese, so maybe Emby doesn't understand that. Is there a manual index file one can create to make all episodes appear in the TV series listing, or is there a way (on an LG TV) to list all files in a folder and play them that way? Please, no suggestions on renaming the files. That is not an option. Emby is not the one that provides the info. Is is the scraper used by emby on your library settings you need to go to their site and check how are the episodes ordered. Example of metadata proivders: www.thetvdb.com www.themoviedb.org Or manually create your own custom metadata. Edited July 25, 2021 by rodainas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37024 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Hi there, can you please go over a specific example? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1523 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 6 hours ago, eobetdisajn said: Please, no suggestions on renaming the files. That is not an option. None the less, seeing the names of the files might make it possible to explain what's happening. It may well be that the episodes are being stacked up as alternative versions of a single episode. If you press the (i) icon next to the episode in the season view, does the display show a dropdown list for the video? Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 6 hours ago, rodainas said: Emby is not the one that provides the info. 4 hours ago, Luke said: Hi there, can you please go over a specific example? Thanks Ok, well using the above info, the series Emby is having troubles with are: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/your-home-is-my-business https://www.thetvdb.com/series/340073-show 10 minutes ago, pwhodges said: None the less, seeing the names of the files might make it possible to explain what's happening. Some examples: BG.Personal.Bodyguard.E01.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H.264-KMX.mkv Your.Home.is.My.Business.E01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-KMX.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Where is the season in the names? ie S01E01 or S03E05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 45 minutes ago, eobetdisajn said: Ok, well using the above info, the series Emby is having troubles with are: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/your-home-is-my-business https://www.thetvdb.com/series/340073-show Some examples: BG.Personal.Bodyguard.E01.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H.264-KMX.mkv Your.Home.is.My.Business.E01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-KMX.mp4 thats the problem yeah, you have no season identifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 As mentioned, filename renaming isn't an option. So, back to my original two questions: 1. How can I tell Emby that these are the correct episodes without renaming? 2. How can I ignore the TV database and just list all files in a folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) 41 minutes ago, cayars said: Where is the season in the names? ie S01E01 or S03E05 15 minutes ago, rodainas said: thats the problem yeah, you have no season identifier. Here is an example of a Japanese series with no season identifier that Emby does not have an issue with: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-flower-shop-without-roses Bara no nai Hanaya ep01 (1280x720 DivX6.xxHD).avi Now, here's another example that Emby presents ALL episodes from, and this series does NOT have a tvdb entry: Nobunaga no Chef EP01 720p HDTV x264 AAC-NGB.mkv So, I think we're looking at a software issue in Emby here. Edited July 25, 2021 by eobetdisajn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, eobetdisajn said: Here is an example of a Japanese series with no season identifier that Emby does not have an issue with: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-flower-shop-without-roses Bara no nai Hanaya ep01 (1280x720 DivX6.xxHD).avi yeah that show has 1 season the other 2, got 2 seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1523 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 44 minutes ago, eobetdisajn said: 1. How can I tell Emby that these are the correct episodes without renaming? 2. How can I ignore the TV database and just list all files in a folder? 1) You can't. Emby uses the folder and file names to make the metadata lookup, and your names provide incomplete information (e.g. no season when there are two to choose from, so the lookup fails). Your insistence that name changes aren't allowed is also an insistence not allowing a solution. However, if you can at least put your files into show/season folders, even without changing the names of the files themselves, then that might be sufficient. 2) Try the Folder View tab on the show page; otherwise... Windows Explorer? Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Without using proper names you will have continued problems with each new show you add as your feeding Emby garbage file names. Name your files properly and Emby will work a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 (edited) Well, garbage file names, garbage software... I guess it's depending on your point of view. EDIT: The above sounded harsh, but this is an issue that could be solved with software, and I see that "please pay me" thing every time I start it and things like this doesn't push me in favour of ever wanting to do that. Edited July 26, 2021 by eobetdisajn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 How does the software know what season it belongs to if you don't tell it? If this was Law and Order you could have 23 different Episode Ones, so if your file is just named "E01" how does Emby know what it is? More like "Garbage In, Garbage Out" I feel your pain about renaming files but it's really the only solution to this problem. I'm not sure how 3rd party rename utilities will do trying to rename the files but I would check out a couple to see if they can make sense of some of these series. I would give FileBot a try on a copy of a series. If a 3rd party rename util can handle this then it can mostly be done automatically for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Filebot is a good option, or use something like Advanced renamer to batch add either S01 or S02 to those episodes, as emby I dont know which season those episodes belong to, you may want to add a feature request for emby to guess the season if there are multiple and not specificied, with some random algorithm there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37024 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/25/2021 at 4:44 PM, eobetdisajn said: Ok, well using the above info, the series Emby is having troubles with are: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/your-home-is-my-business https://www.thetvdb.com/series/340073-show Some examples: BG.Personal.Bodyguard.E01.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H.264-KMX.mkv Your.Home.is.My.Business.E01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-KMX.mp4 How are your files organized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 28, 2021 Author Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) On 27/07/2021 at 08:45, Luke said: How are your files organized? Each series is in its own folder. An example folder name: BG.Personal.Bodyguard.S02.2020.Complete.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-MagicStar So there's your season identifier. For Asian series, this naming convention doesn't seem uncommon. However, first seasons doesn't always have any identifier in the folder name, and then there's multi-episode specials as well, which aren't part of a season. Oh, here's another fun one for you: Massan.E001.720p.HDTV.x264.AC3-INA.mkv On 26/07/2021 at 00:29, pwhodges said: 2) Try the Folder View tab on the show page; otherwise... Windows Explorer? This isn't available in the LG app I'm guessing, as I can't find it? Also, for everyone jumping down my throat: Showing only a SINGLE EPISODE of an entire season is not only weird, it's bad user experience! How did Emby figure out what season that episode came from, anyway? So why not guess the same for the rest? Edited July 28, 2021 by eobetdisajn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1523 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Have you checked that all the episodes are not stacked up as alternative versions? Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 7/25/2021 at 4:44 PM, eobetdisajn said: Some examples: BG.Personal.Bodyguard.E01.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H.264-KMX.mkv Your.Home.is.My.Business.E01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-KMX.mp4 These to me look like invalid tv series names. Have you looked at our TV Series Naming Convention we recommend? https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159110-tv-naming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37024 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 @eobetdisajn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Luke said: @eobetdisajn? I answered you above here already. On 26/07/2021 at 00:29, pwhodges said: 2) Try the Folder View tab on the show page; otherwise... Windows Explorer? Today, I managed to locate the folder view on the LG TV app. However, it shows *exactly the same* groupings as in the "Program" view. It doesn't show folder names at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37024 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 4:52 PM, eobetdisajn said: I answered you above here already. Today, I managed to locate the folder view on the LG TV app. However, it shows *exactly the same* groupings as in the "Program" view. It doesn't show folder names at all! Hi @eobetdisajn, we plan to improve the TV folder view in future updates. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobetdisajn 0 Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) Chinese series this time: Unchained Love 2022 S1EP05.1080p.WEB-DL AAC x264 - ANDY.mp4 Unchained Love 2022 S1EP06.1080p.WEB-DL AAC x264 - ANDY.mp4 I don't understand why in 2022 (soon 2023) fuzzy logic or heck, just a regex can't be used to figure out episodes! I mean, this isn't rocket science and regardless of all of this, hiding files from any view is really, really bad UX. EDIT: Ha, apparently there's some currently misguided attempt to identify the episode... unfortunately, it identifies it as season 20, episode 22 and that's probably why only a single episode shows up in Emby... come on... I manually named the folder to S01 this time... still pretty far from rocket science, imo... Edited December 31, 2022 by eobetdisajn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1523 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 2 hours ago, eobetdisajn said: I don't understand why in 2022 (soon 2023) fuzzy logic or heck, just a regex can't be used to figure out episodes! I mean, this isn't rocket science Actually, meeting the conflicting expectations of different users is not so easy! 2 hours ago, eobetdisajn said: unfortunately, it identifies it as season 20, episode 22 It is usual to put the date of the series in parentheses, and if that is done Emby will recognise what it is. 2 hours ago, eobetdisajn said: come on... I manually named the folder to S01 this time Emby is looking for the word "Season". Also your "S01EP05" is not one of Emby's formats either - try "S01E05" Doing things in the expected way is perfectly easy and really does save a load of trouble (and need for complaints! ) Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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