daveoxford 1 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 (edited) HiI have Emby 4 running on Debian Stretch. I currently have the default setup of metadata being saved to /var/lib... and for various reasons (ease of rebuilding libraries, TheTVDB is a mess,...) would like to move to having all my metadata stored locally so I can "fine tune" it.I have set up a small test server on a different machine, and added a library with a couple of shows with "Metadata savers Nfo" and "Save artwork into media folders" checked when creating the library, and after a scan, the nfos and images are there, but I am struggling to work out how to edit this data and have Emby pick it up (other than deleting and rebuilding the library).Q1: How do I get Emby to pick up the metadata from a manually edited nfo file? I am assuming I need to refresh a cache somewhere - how do I do that without searching the internet sources again?I would like to have the local metadata as hidden files - I see I can just make the images hidden and change the paths to the them within the nfo file (which is no problem, I can automate that), but...Q2: Can I make the nfo itself hidden?My media is rw-r--r-- to my local user, whereas the nfo files Emby creates are rw-r--r-- to the emby user. @@mastrmind11 Q3: What is the best approach here? I can chown all the nfo files to my local user so I can edit them (which would have the added advantage of protecting them), or is there some better way?I realise this is going over some old ground, but these things have changed over the lifetime of Emby, and there are a lot of older posts out there that no longer apply and add to the confusion. :-)Thanks, anybody! Edited March 6, 2019 by Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoxford 1 Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 ...running on Debian Stretch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Q1: How do I get Emby to pick up the metadata from a manually edited nfo file? I am assuming I need to refresh a cache somewhere - how do I do that without searching the internet sources again? Hi, if enabled for that library, the realtime-monitor should pick it up and the changes will be in Emby within a minute or two. Otherwise the next library scan will pick up the changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Q2: Can I make the nfo itself hidden? Yes you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoxford 1 Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 Many thanks, Luke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoxford 1 Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 Emby doesn't seem to be picking up hidden nfos. (Linux style, with a "." at the beginning of the file name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Ok yes that could be a problem. They need to have the same file name as the video right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoxford 1 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 It would be nice for a future release, but I can live with it for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoxford 1 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 Luke - any thought on Q3 about file permissions?My media (on LInux) is rw-r--r-- to my local user, whereas the nfo files Emby creates are rw-r--r-- to the emby user.What is the best approach here? I can chown all the nfo files to my local user so I can edit them (which would have the added advantage of protecting them), or is there some better way? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I think what you're suggesting is probably the best approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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