Naming Problems

[smittywerben 1]

Hello everyone.

 

I'm new to Emby, and decided after using it for a while in a most crippled, but surprisingly useful way, to organize my media files so I can catalog everything correctly. For the most part this works well, but I've had some serious roadblocks with a couple of series.

 

I put together a test subset of my collection that allows me to reliably reproduce the issues I've experience with this. I've attached a directory tree of my test collection. I've attached that to this post. I've also attached a screenshot, showing that Emby does indeed initially seem to recognize properly the different series, along with a screenshot with the version info.

 

The issue I am running into is that Emby keeps merging Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball Z Abridged together. It does this whether I have the series merging turned on in the library settings or not. Those are two different series, with two different production formats, despite being very closely related. As you can see, I am following the recommended naming convention and directory structures found here. The really frustrating thing, is that even in folder view, it's merging the series together, and not reflecting the actual directory structure on disk at all.

 

Is there a way I can force Emby to assign a series by directory? This would be a brain dead simple fix, but I can't find a way to do it. It only seems to allow me to assign metadata and identify by the already misidentified series, completely defeating the purpose. Otherwise, is there any other work around?

 

Thanks.

emby tree

[Luke 39785]

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?  How many emby libraries have you created, and what folder paths are added to each one?

[smittywerben 1]

I attached a directory tree to my first post so you can see what's in the library and how exactly it's structured. It also contained output of "uname -a" at the top. For this instance I only have one library. For now, I'm just trying to figure out resolve this problem before I rename and organize the rest of my collection to work smoothly.

[GrimReaper 4019]

9 minutes ago, smittywerben said:

I attached a directory tree to my first post so you can see what's in the library and how exactly it's structured.

What kind of file is that "emby tree" as it is extensionless? Image, text, zip, PDF? 

Edited February 8 by GrimReaper

[smittywerben 1]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

What kind of file is that "emby tree" as it is extensionless? Image, text, zip, PDF? 

Weird. It's a text file.

[GrimReaper 4019]

Name your show folders:

Dragon Ball Z (1989) [tvdbid=81472] 

Dragon Ball Z Abridged (2008) [tvdbid=248580] 

Also, your Dragon Ball Z Abridged episodes have no season identifier nor they are in Season 1 folder, rename those files to some supported naming convention, like S01Exx. 

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#episode-naming-conventions

Scan media library. 

[Happy2Play 9385]

11 hours ago, smittywerben said:

The issue I am running into is that Emby keeps merging Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball Z Abridged together

Pretty common as there is no year distinction and the api will not necessarily return them properly when doing a by name search and Emby usually selects the first api returned item.

 

So you will want something like 

 

Dragon Ball Z (1989)

Dragon Ball Z Abridged (2008)

Or use providerid like

Dragon Ball Z [tvdbid=81472]

Dragon Ball Z Abridged [tvdbid=248580]

Edited February 8 by Happy2Play
removed duplicate image

[smittywerben 1]

10 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Pretty common as there is no year distinction and the api will not necessarily return them properly when doing a by name search and Emby usually selects the first api returned item.

 

 

So you will want something like 

 

Dragon Ball Z (1989)

Dragon Ball Z Abridged (2008)

Or use providerid like

Dragon Ball Z [tvdbid=81472]

Dragon Ball Z Abridged [tvdbid=248580]

Thank you!! This seems to have solved the problem! Not a fan of having to add extra stuff to directory names, but it's a clean solution.

 

14 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Name your show folders:

Dragon Ball Z (1989) [tvdbid=81472] 

Dragon Ball Z Abridged (2008) [tvdbid=248580] 

Also, your Dragon Ball Z Abridged episodes have no season identifier nor they are in Season 1 folder, rename those files to some supported naming convention, like S01Exx. 

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#episode-naming-conventions

Scan media library. 

This is exactly what I didn't want to have to do. DBZ Abridged is a web series, there were no seasons per se. Maybe my OCD, but unless the creators specifically released it in seasons, I'd rather it match episode order in a flat structure. Thankfully it seems that putting the identifier in the parent directories works suitably.

 

The only downside I see, is that past the first season, (as according to TVDB) it doesn't associate metadata with the later episodes. That's fine by me, as long as they are displayed properly in the interface so I can find and play them, which IS the case here.

 

 

Thank you everyone for your time!