How Do I?

[Sat32 0]

I've setup emby server on OMV 3 and after a couple hiccups everything is working good except I'm having issues setting up metadata

 

@@Happy2Play I use metabrowser 2 and save images and nfo files into media folders following kodi/emby standards.

 

How do I setup people/cast metadata? metabrowser allows me to do a sub folder in each media folder for cast "not first choice". It will also allow

me to have a separate  people folder where it stores images and nfo for each person paths can be

 

//server/people/Luke/ folder.jpg & person.nfo

or

//server/people/L/Luke/ folder.jpg & person.nfo

 

Metabrowser also allows me to do path substitutions in the nfo files like this.

 

  <actor>
    <name>Luke</name>
    <role>Emby Programer</role>
    <thumb>smb://Server/People/L/Luke/folder.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

 

What do I need to do to get emby to use this locally stored metadata??

 

Thanks

[Happy2Play 8395]

By default Emby saves the people images in your Metadata folder (default location */Emby-server/metadata/people) and in sub-folders "//server/people/L/Luke/ folder.jpg & person.nfo".

 

As for adding image path to nfo, look as nfo settings (Dashboard-Library-nfo settings).

[Sat32 0]

Thanks for the help but what in the nfo tab needs to be changed? or in the nfo file.

I've tried in the nfo:

 

  <actor>
    <name>Barry Bostwick</name>
    <role>Thunderbolt (voice)</role>
    <thumb>\\RELIENT\Metadata\People\B\Barry Bostwick\folder.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

 

and

 

  <actor>
    <name>Barry Bostwick</name>
    <role>Thunderbolt (voice)</role>
    <thumb>smb://RELIENT/Metadata\People/B/Barry Bostwick/folder.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

 

Neither seems to get the image into emby

 

my nfo tab the check boxes and discriptions seem self explanatory

 

Thanks

[Luke 37332]

We don't currently read actor image paths from nfo's. It is a possibility for the future. thanks !

[Sat32 0]

We don't currently read actor image paths from nfo's. It is a possibility for the future. thanks !

 

Really?

 

Then the checkboxs in Libary > nfo tab

*Save image paths within nfo files

*Enable path substitution

Do?

 

If emby is going to use kodi's nfo format it would be a good idea if it supported all if not most of the features of the format.

 

My solution to this flaw:

created a metadata share where metabrowser could download and save people.nfo + folder.jpg

\\server\metadata\People\a\a person

 

Then created two scheduled tasks in open media vault

 

rsync -avz "/media/f6f4e7a8-2ced-4c9d-9bd4-445565ea809b/Metadata/People" "/var/lib/emby-server/metadata"

-moves images and nfo to where emby can see them

 

chown -R emby:emby "/var/lib/emby-server/metadata/People"

-changes ownership to emby

 

seems to be working good

Edited March 14, 2017 by Sat32

[Luke 37332]

Yes correct, we write the path so that Kodi can read it, but we don't do anything with the data ourselves at this point.