Storing and Editing Person Metadata as .NFO Files Not Working

[haoylee 1]

Hi there,

The new 4.8.3.0 version has changed its old method to store person metadata as .nfo files (previously stored in emby-server/metadata/people/... along with person's images, now there are only images, I don't find any person's NFOs anywhere). I have ticked the "Enable reading and writing of person metadata files" option in "Library-Advanced" page, and try to upload an NFO file into "people/x/xx" path myself, and by refreshing metadata, sometimes the info for this person could be updated with this NFO file, but mostly doesn't work. Moreover, whatever change I made in emby's webpage for person's info, it wouldn't update into this NFO file I created myself.

Since I have a lot of self-made media in emby and I would really like to edit any media info myself, including those Tiktok Talents and Youtubers' information, I do miss the old way to store and edit those information in an NFO file that I CAN FIND.

My guess is that you've adjusted the person metadata's storage path and hide it-just like jellyfin, and one may change it by refreshing an NFO file or directly editing in the webpage, but what I really need is an AVAILABLE NFO FILE. Just leave an option to allow me store those person metadata as a reachable nfo file would be great.

Thanks for your time and taking this into consideration!

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My Environment:

Emby server(4.8.3.0) for macOS(14.4.1), application has full disk access permission.

[Luke 37099]

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I have ticked the "Enable reading and writing of person metadata files" option in "Library-Advanced" page,

Hi, now that you've done this, just open the metadata editor for a person, click save, and that should get an nfo file created. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[haoylee 1]

34 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, now that you've done this, just open the metadata editor for a person, click save, and that should get an nfo file created. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

Hi Luke,

What you suggest worked well before I upgraded to 4.8.3.0 version, but it no longer works now.

The current metadata folder on my mac is "Macintosh HD\Users\username\.config\emby-server\metadata\people", which is not the same as older versions, and no NFO file changes or pops up as I edit a person's metadata.That's why I thought this was a feature change.

So maybe my problem is a bug or troubleshooting issue, I'll try reinstall the server again or change a platform and I'll come back to report any update.

[haoylee 1]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, now that you've done this, just open the metadata editor for a person, click save, and that should get an nfo file created. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

Reinstalled emby server but still nothing changed. I edited one person’s info by clicking the pencil icon, but nothing popped up in the metadata folder. Maybe I should try another platform to confirm if it’s Mac’s problem.

[adminExitium 173]

Logs will be good to see if there are any errors or something else preventing Emby from writing the file.

[haoylee 1]

52 minutes ago, adminExitium said:

Logs will be good to see if there are any errors or something else preventing Emby from writing the file.

Here’s the log file, which has a lot.  And I just realize I have an error starting tray icon. The later part shows the process I edited a person info.

 

BTW, should this post be moved to troubleshooting section?

embyserver-63847871999.txt

[adminExitium 173]

Can you enable debug logs too and retry the refresh? Post the logs after that.

Edited April 4 by adminExitium

[haoylee 1]

3 minutes ago, adminExitium said:

Can you enable debug logs too and retry the refresh? Post the logs after that.

Sorry, my bad. Here it is, and it grows much longer

embyserver.txt

[haoylee 1]

The last one I didn’t refresh it, don’t know if it matters. So I did it again.

embyserver (2).txt

[adminExitium 173]

I am not seeing any refresh in either of the above log files.

[haoylee 1]

5 minutes ago, adminExitium said:

I am not seeing any refresh in either of the above log files.

Oh! you mean refresh metadata?

embyserver (3).txt

[adminExitium 173]

It does seem to be running the NFO provider, but I don't see any attempt to save it.

2024-04-05 01:10:45.786 Debug App: Running PersonNfoProvider for 吳夢夢

It could be due to no change in the metadata, so can you try actually changing a field value and saving it?

[haoylee 1]

7 minutes ago, adminExitium said:

It does seem to be running the NFO provider, but I don't see any attempt to save it.

2024-04-05 01:10:45.786 Debug App: Running PersonNfoProvider for 吳夢夢

It could be due to no change in the metadata, so can you try actually changing a field value and saving it?

I did change some fields and clicked save , and refreshed again this time.

embyserver (4).txt

[adminExitium 173]

So it's definitely trying to read NFO metadata but doesn't seem to be writing anything:

2024-04-05 01:24:00.109 Debug App: Running PersonNfoProvider for 吳夢夢
2024-04-05 01:24:00.109 Debug App: PersonNfoProvider returned no metadata for 吳夢夢

I don't see any errors too, so someone else or Luke will need to look into it and see why no write is happening.

[haoylee 1]

1 minute ago, adminExitium said:

So it's definitely trying to read NFO metadata but doesn't seem to be writing anything:

2024-04-05 01:24:00.109 Debug App: Running PersonNfoProvider for 吳夢夢
2024-04-05 01:24:00.109 Debug App: PersonNfoProvider returned no metadata for 吳夢夢

I don't see any errors too, so someone else or Luke will need to look into it and see why no write is happening.

My guess now, is it might be a PERMISSION issue in which I try to write into hidden folder, which is the same situation as I used jellyfin. Previously emby’s metadata was stored in “~/Users/username/emby-server/metadata”, which was a Non-hidden folder, but now it has changed to”~Users/username/.config/emby-server/metadata”, which is a hidden folder.

 

Don’t know if it matters. But thank you anyway.

[Luke 37099]

How did you configure the options for the library?

[haoylee 1]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

How did you configure the options for the library?

Here are the library settings and and advanced settings..

[Smitty018210 52]

Don't know if this related to this topic, but might be. Every time I edit an actor profile, either the information or image, the episode they are in duplicates.

Also I checked to see if maybe the nfo info was incorrect and went to save location (E:\Emby Server\Metadata\people) to this actor folder and it dose not appear in this location.

 

[Smitty018210 52]

Please disregard my post above. I believe this a different problem altogether.

[haoylee 1]

1 hour ago, Smitty018210 said:

Don't know if this related to this topic, but might be. Every time I edit an actor profile, either the information or image, the episode they are in duplicates.

Also I checked to see if maybe the nfo info was incorrect and went to save location (E:\Emby Server\Metadata\people) to this actor folder and it dose not appear in this location.

 

You gave me a hint, so I changed the metadata location to a manual path and refreshed all metadatas, but nothing was there either.

[Smitty018210 52]

10 minutes ago, haoylee said:

You gave me a hint, so I changed the metadata location to a manual path and refreshed all metadatas, but nothing was there either.

Yeah the problem I have is different then yours I think. 

I created new topic about it.

However I can say that any changes I make to actor profiles (image or info) are not being saved to Metadata\people as far as I can tell.

Edited April 5 by Smitty018210

[Happy2Play 8296]

Currently don't appear to see nfo files updating/changing in /metadata/people but images are updated.

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2024-04-04 20:46:11.242 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍::1‌. Time: 1ms. GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug Server: http/1.1 GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Person 46004 Victor Webster
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍::1‌. Time: 1ms. GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us
2024-04-04 20:46:11.252 Debug ImageProcessor: Image encoding using Skia to C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\cache\temp\6fd4c4fc5c2a4dfea012e0ce197b326f.webp took 14ms for C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata\people\v\Victor Webster-tmdb-1215144\folder.jpg. Now moving to C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\cache\images\resized-images\7\745e7af9-223e-fb57-47bf-5392c28e04da.webp

 

[haoylee 1]

4 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Currently don't appear to see nfo files updating/changing in /metadata/people but images are updated.

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2024-04-04 20:46:11.242 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍::1‌. Time: 1ms. GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug Server: http/1.1 GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Person 46004 Victor Webster
2024-04-04 20:46:11.244 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍::1‌. Time: 1ms. GET http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8095/emby/Items/46004/RemoteImages/Providers?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=ba6c5afa-ef3d-451b-96d2-f2916b749894&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.0.12&X-Emby-Token=‌dbb0d1c01bc24e95b251f348737f94aa‌&X-Emby-Language=en-us
2024-04-04 20:46:11.252 Debug ImageProcessor: Image encoding using Skia to C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\cache\temp\6fd4c4fc5c2a4dfea012e0ce197b326f.webp took 14ms for C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata\people\v\Victor Webster-tmdb-1215144\folder.jpg. Now moving to C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\cache\images\resized-images\7\745e7af9-223e-fb57-47bf-5392c28e04da.webp

 

Same here.

[Happy2Play 8296]

Here is a quick example the existing nfo never is missing info by just enable the option in Library-Advanced.  But Refresh or manual save does not update nfo.  At least in my testing. @Luke

[Luke 37099]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Here is a quick example the existing nfo never is missing info by just enable the option in Library-Advanced.  But Refresh or manual save does not update nfo.  At least in my testing. @Luke

Is that 4.8 or 4.9?