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Weird Playlist - Movies not playing correctly - please help


naeyaert

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naeyaert

Dear Emby

 

I have a weird issue that has just started happening.

I use a playlist to keep track of the movies I want to watch (add to playlist).  My playlist is called "WATCHLIST"

I have around 25 movies in my WATCHLIST

What is weird is when I select a movie on my WATCHLIST, the wrong movie plays.

I checked the metadata on the file and it points to the correct movie yet the wrong movie plays (it plays another movie from my watchlist and not the one I selected).

I have attached some images to show what is happening...

 

Capture 1 shows the list and the movie selection "Light of my Life"

Capture 2 shows the path form the movie that points to the movie "Light of my Life" correctly

Capture 3 shows what happens when I click on the movie in my WATCHLIST "Light of my Life" - it plays the movie "MIDSOMMAR"?????????

 

It does this for all my movies in my WATCHLIST

 

This once worked well and now it doesnt and I really dont want to have to rebuild my entire WATCHLIST

 

Can someone please help me?

 

Many thanks Rob 

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Hi, looks like you enabled Cinema Intros, in which case the server is doing exactly what you configured it to do.

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naeyaert

Luke sorry I don’t understand what you mean. This is a playlist and it was once working fine and I certainly don’t recall changing anything.

 

Could you please elaborate or tell me where I turn this off so it works as expected please?

 

Also what is cinema intros?

 

Thanks in advance

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naeyaert

 

Hi Luke - this (Cinema Intros) is NOT turned on - please see screen shot provided below.  If it was, surely this would be happening with ALL movies?

To recap, this weird behavior ONLY happens when I select a movie from a Watch-list I created.  I add the movie to the watch-list and then when I go to the watch-list to play a movie, it plays a random movie.

ALL movies play normally from my movie library.

 

Can you please help?

 

Thanks Rob

 

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naeyaert

Yes - All the movies on my playlist exist in my library - I use the feature "add movie to playlist" so I then have a list of movies I can flick to to watch later as I have a lot of movies.

To recap, when I add a movie to my library and I want to watch it later, I choose "add movie to playlist WATCHLIST so I then have a queue of movies to watch when I'm in the mood.

This worked perfectly for a long time.

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naeyaert

Nope it was happening with over 50% of the files. Some would play correctly (as in the movie I selected would play) and then the other 50% of the time another movie in the playlist would play super weird.

 

I say “was” happening as I discovered I had 3 duplicate movies added to my playlist. I had added “the hunt” twice - both were in the playlist and both were pointing to the correct movie yet one would play a the next movie on the list.

 

I then deleted the duplicate entries and it seems to act properly now.

 

Which begs the question “is this a bug”? You could rightfully assume that you could add a single movie (say “the hunt”) and no matter how many times it’s in the playlist it should still play the correct movie.

 

I’m pretty sure that this is a bug but it’s fixed in my case simply by removing any double entries.

 

Thoughts?

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