killwack 0 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Hi. Currently I am using a MYSQL Database and several KODI Clients with different profies accessing my music and movie library on a local NAS. Since more than 10 years I am using XBMC, now KODI and all my library metadata and information is locally stored and mannaged in the appropriate nfo file of the movie, or tv show. This according to "Kodi standard rules", managed by my prefered, really great and simple Ember Media Manager tool used for years. Now I tried emby the first time as an mysql alternative on my NAS, but found out, that after an sucessfull scan with emby of all my ~2000 movies, that all my NFO files have been deleted and renamed to .info by emby after the scan has completed. This change and deletion brought me into big troubles, because I was unable to re-edit or change existing information in the "new" .info file afterwards. My manually placed information in some nfo files has been overwritten by emby, and I was unable to re-edit it because Ember Media Manager is currently not compatible with the .info file. I would assume, the .info used by emby is not 100% compliant to KODIs xlm format, used for their generated .nfo files. I had luck, because I have had a backup to be able to restore all local .nfo information of my library. EMby seems to be a great server, because the scan and artwork seems to be very "uncomplicated" compated to the effort needed in using a mysql based backend database for KODI. So I want to ask, if there is a way to prevent emby from changing my local .nfo file? I have found some settings on the web interface to change the location of the emby metadata or the emby database (tumbnail?) cache, but have not found any way to prevent emby from deleting my local nfo file and re-create a .info instead of it, afterwards. Any idea how I could force emby not to delete or change my existing nfo files stored in my media (movie) directory? I have nothing against, if emby stores the .info file additionally with the pre-existing nfo file in the same, or a different location within my movie directory. I would appreciate your help or any idea, how you have realised or managed your existing emby/KODI media library. BR, Rainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Hi, welcome. It's right there when you setup a library: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 However, this statement is simply not true: that all my NFO files have been deleted and renamed to .info by emby after the scan has completed. There is no part of our system that saves files with the ".info" extension. We do save with the ".nfo" extension which sounds like what you want considering that you're looking for Kodi compatibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 356 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 In library settings uncheck "save pictures and metadata in media location" (or similar, my Emby is not English). Then your files should be unaffected and Emby collects all files somewhere in its working directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killwack 0 Posted November 18, 2016 Author Share Posted November 18, 2016 Thank you very much for your fast response. I will try both settings and start a library scan again of a media files in a test folder, I have created now. I come back to you. @@Luke.: I'll also try to reproduce, what kind of program could have changed my existing .nfo to .info. I assumed that this has been created by emby, because I realized the change after it's scan. Thank you, Rainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Thank you very much for your fast response. I will try both settings and start a library scan again of a media files in a test folder, I have created now. I come back to you. @@Luke.: I'll also try to reproduce, what kind of program could have changed my existing .nfo to .info. I assumed that this has been created by emby, because I realized the change after it's scan. Thank you, Rainer Ember Media Manager is the thing that's renaming your files. According to http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=205271 EMM renames to .info if it thinks it's discovered an error in the .nfo file. Get rid of EMM and use Emby for scraping/etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 And the plot thickens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 356 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) Get rid of EMM and use Emby for scraping/etc. I recommend this, too. I love EMM but combined with Emby you only have trouble. At least that's the experience I made. You should bite the sour apple and recreate all .nfo files with Emby. By using Emby for Kodi you have no missing information. Edited November 18, 2016 by horstepipe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killwack 0 Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 Hi. Thank you all for your help and hints. I can commit now that Ember Media Manager was the cause of renaming my existing .nfo files to .info, which has been changed during the library scan of emby. (A file compare with the "original" one showed some additional entries after the scan). However I am fascinated of the extreme performance and sync functionality with KODI as a client. So I have to do some test now to understand the feature set and working of emby including it's media manager with movies and tv shows. If you have any suggestion for me, how to read into this topic (sync, configuration, metadata management with emby...) elswhere than using your wiki, I would appreciate your feedback. BR, Rainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Thanks for the report. What are you looking for suggestions related to exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killwack 0 Posted November 21, 2016 Author Share Posted November 21, 2016 In special this will be the auto organize feature and how to figure out a efficient use of your meta data manager. I'll raise a new topic if I have an issue in handling both features. First of all I need to gain a better experience in using emby. THX Rainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Sounds great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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