"4400 2021 SnnEnn" - not looked up properly by Emby

[Mendocinotim 11]

Emby had trouble when it tried looking everything up correctly - probably due to the name of the show “4400”.

I had to futz around with the filenames and changed them from “4400 2021 SnnSnn …” to “4400 SnnEnn …”.
That change initially didn’t work when I then told Emby to “Scan Library Files” - note: this usually works.

However, in this one case, after having it scan the library, I also had to tell Emby to “Refresh Metadata”.
After a few moments (while it looked everything up) I refreshed the page and voila it finally had all the right episode names and info in properly.

I have seen this kind of behavior with shows like “24” and “1899” in the past.

Shows named with only numbers seem to have this issue when Emby examines it’s filenames - I also think the date part of the filename may contribute to this problem. Although I have not tested this, I do believe that if the date is wrapped in parens this problem may not be triggered in this kind of case - maybe.

This is not a big deal, as not many shows or movies are named just with a number - but I thought I would mention it here.

[Luke 37067]

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?

[Happy2Play 8282]

Yes shows with same names can be an issue but adding year to folder usually solves the issue.

Did not see an issue in my test