mungylee 0 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Hi. Newbie here. Probably a really simple question, but I've had a search and can't find an answer. I'm not even sure what I should be typing in. Basically, how do I make the title of videos in my library the same as the file name? I have a lot of tv shows save on my PC with the name 'blahblah.S03E06', 'blahblah.S10E15', etc. However when they show in my Emby library, they are missing the episode number for some of them (but weirdly not all of them). Why is this? and how do I make all the videos keep their file names? See example below (the Hawaii Five-0 episodes do not show the episode name/number, yet the Impractical Joker episodes do). Thanks, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8240 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Best guess unsupported structure, so technically unidentified media. What is your exact folder structure and naming scheme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungylee 0 Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Best guess unsupported structure, so technically unidentified media. What is your exact folder structure and naming scheme? Sorry, I don't know, I'm a complete newbie. I have a folder, with all my videos in it. Some are in additional folders, but only because that's how they were downloaded. Not sure what scheme, i'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wondertje 10 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 (edited) Sorry, I don't know, I'm a complete newbie. I have a folder, with all my videos in it. Some are in additional folders, but only because that's how they were downloaded. Not sure what scheme, i'm afraid. Try typing out your folder structure like this: Main folder >TV-show 1 >>>Season 1 >>>>>Episode 1 >>>>>Episode 2 >>>Season 2 >>>>>Episode 1 >TV-show 2 etc. Not all of it, but just to give us an idea of how it looks. If you don't have a consistent structure (so that it's the same all through the folder) and naming convention (how you name your files) you'll most likely run into problems when Emby tries to identify things. Edited June 9, 2019 by Wondertje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 see https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie-naming and https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV-naming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1551 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 (edited) Duplicate to above Edited June 9, 2019 by arrbee99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8240 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 (edited) Looks like I took to long.... Emby requires some structure when it comes to Series. At minimum a series folder for every series. You currently can not just a have a bunch of episodes in a random folder. Edited June 9, 2019 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37000 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Alternatively if you have a more random folder structure, then the home videos content type could be a better choice than TV. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungylee 0 Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Thanks guys. I've tried to create a home vdeos folder instead, but still have the same problem unfortunately. I just hoped there would be a "use file name as title" tick box hidden somewhere in the settings, but never mind. I can manually rename the individual videos in the metadata. I could organise it better, but all my torrent download to my 'downloads' folder. I was hoping to easily access them straight from my smart TV, without having to sort through them. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37000 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Can you explain exactly what you see in home videos? Because it really should be different there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungylee 0 Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Can you explain exactly what you see in home videos? Because it really should be different there. Exactly the same, unfortunately. Some videos have kept their file names, others have shortened it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37000 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Do you have nfo files in the same directories as the videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 If you can organize these as suggested in our docs, you are going to get a MUCH better presentation and a ton more features... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37000 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 @@mungylee, has this information helped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungylee 0 Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Sorry. Just in Italy for week. Some of the videos come in folders with nfo's in them, but the majority are just mp4 or mkv files in my download folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 Sorry. Just in Italy for week. Some of the videos come in folders with nfo's in them, but the majority are just mp4 or mkv files in my download folder I think you'll find that the ones with nfo files are the ones not displaying as you expect. But, again, you are really missing out on most of the features of the Emby system. With just a little bit of organization, you'll get much better displays. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37000 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Correct, Emby is most likely just displaying the titles from the nfo files. Those nfo files could have been there prior to installing Emby, or they could have been saved by Emby when you had it as a TV library. Either way, as long as they're present, Emby will read them. Does this sound like what you're seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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