blublub 10 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Hi Since I had issues with my 3.5 server I setup a new fresh install on a different PC with Emby 4.0. After I did set it all up I checked the metadata and that's when I noticed that in the metadata manager all movies were in subentries like this: 13th floor13th floorWhen I click on the entries the 1st entry only shows the file path with folder and the subentrie the actual file - like this: \\servername\video\movies\13thfloor \\servername\video\movies\13thfloor\13thfloor.mkv On the contrary under "TV series" I have missing entries of the episodes in the metadata web GUI - so there are no subentries for the episodes, the navigation ends at series level I already cleared the cache and changed browsers - any ideas here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37128 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Hi, the top entry is the folder, and the lower entry is the movie within the folder. Does this answer your question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blublub 10 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 Hi, the top entry is the folder, and the lower entry is the movie within the folder. Does this answer your question? Ha ;-) - no, I guessed that. But on my other Emby server it does not show the folder as an entry, just the file/movie name - so new layout kinda confused me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmos1277 9 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) I noticed this nesting behavior as well. For me, the Metadata Manager exhibits this behavior for my "Movies" library. However, it doesn't do it for a "UFC" library that I've created. My UFC library is "Mixed Content" my Movies library is "Movie" content. Luke, was this a conscious choice to make this change? Or is it simply a side effect of other architectural changes? Any idea why some of my libraries exhibit this nesting behavior while others don't? Is it just Movies vs. Mixed? One last question ... are there now two entries in the database for each movie? One for the folder and one for the actual movie file? I ask because it seems like I can edit the metadata of the folder and the metadata of the movie file separately. Both sets of metadata seem to be retained. This could end up being a confusing design decision. Especially since the metadata for the movie file is stored on disk ... and it seems that the metadata for the folder is stored in the DB only. I see people inadvertently losing metadata in the future!! Edited January 28, 2019 by jmos1277 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmos1277 9 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I've included a screenshot of the behavior below... just in case it's anomalous behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37128 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Right, one is the folder, the other is the media inside the folder. This allows the folder based views to be a true representation of your folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmos1277 9 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Right, one is the folder, the other is the media inside the folder. This allows the folder based views to be a true representation of your folders. Any comment on the possibility of users confusing the folder with the file and assigning metadata to the folder? It seems less user-friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37128 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I've added type icons to the metadata manager for the next release. folders, audio files and video files will all have distinguishing icons next to them. You can try it now using the online web app. http://app.emby.media Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmos1277 9 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 The icons look good and will certainly help ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37128 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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