Question about metadata for personal concert videos

[Jaqo3000 0]

Hello,

I am new to Emby and I was quite impressed with its features for movies and TV shows. so I decided to add my personal videos that I recorded during concerts or family weddings etc.

So I made a new library in Emby and I added the personal video folder to it. the videos are separated in subfolders and each subfolder contains manually generated nfo and also artwork.

For reasons that are too long to explain here, my library is mixed with some subfolders contain normal / regular music videos for metallica, AC-DC, etc, but without nfo file or artwork. I didn't see the need to generate nfo manually or download the artwork manually for those known artists since Emby can fetch the metadata and artwork for the artists.

I have enabled fetching the metadata from the musicbrainz and audiodb etc.

However, I am afraid that Emby will try to fetch "wrong" metadata for the personal videos.

My question is about how Emby prioritize fetching the metadata for such mixed folders / subfolders

To make my question a bit clear, I give an example. I have the exact same setup with Kodi, and when I scan this library, Kodi starts first identifying the videos by using the local nfo, then when there is no local nfo, it fetches the metadata from internet sources. So in Kodi everything has the correct metadata.

So does Emby have this same prioritization (local nfo then online nfo) or does it directly go to the internet sources like musicbrainz, audiodb, etc. and overwrite the local nfo?

Apologize for the long post and my broken English.

regards,

Jaqo

 

 

 

[One2Go 106]

Can't answer the question about prioritizing but I have a few libraries that are similar and the 1st thing I did was define the content as "Mixed content". Next I went through the effort to created XML files and set using the plug-in emby.xml at 1st priority when scanning a library content for using the xml file's meta data as well as the poster and background images. This may be time consuming and not work for you.

[Luke 38863]

hi @Jaqo3000what content type did you setup the library with?

[Jaqo3000 0]

hi to be honest I cannot remember and now I cannot check, I had to remove that library because Emby kept overwriting the nfo files that I have manually made and it did that to at least 10 personal files, most probably because the names of those files were somehow similar to known videos on the IMDb / databases while the rest of the personal, did not have names that resembled any known video. so if I am about to re-add this library, what do you suggest that I set its content type to ? 

 

edit: this shows that Emby doesn't prioritize the local existing nfo. maybe i did something wrong when setting up the library?

Edited January 2 by Jaqo3000

[One2Go 106]

6 minutes ago, Jaqo3000 said:

edit: this shows that Emby doesn't prioritize the local existing nfo. maybe i did something wrong when setting up the library?

Emby is very flexible and allows you to do things that most likely no one else allows. For example I added episodes to seasons that don't exist but appear in theTVDB site in the extra section. However I stuck with the XML files rather then the NFO and it has served me well. Emby will read the XML files first before it does anything else. For example I added a SortTitle tag in the XML file and it imports it and adds it correctly to the meta data.

I know you put a lot of effort in creating those NFOs and hope you get it sorted. Another thing that I did and it would have saved your custom NFOs, that once everything is to your liking you lock the content and nothing will be overwritten as it is locked and no changes are allowed, plus no scanning for meta data is happening. This will not help you in your present situation, but it is an option going forward.