tdiguy 97 Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 I am aware of the setting to not recorde duplicate episodes. But is there a tool or a add on to help detect and delete duplicate episodes? I have looked at my library briefly and it seems my wife never uses the option to not record duplicates.
Carlo 4552 Posted July 4, 2020 Posted July 4, 2020 Nope. What I'll do a few times a year is export my database movie/show names and then search for dupes to look at.
tdiguy 97 Posted July 4, 2020 Author Posted July 4, 2020 I found some information online that while its not the most accurate way to delete duplicates it works well. I am on a linux based systems so i am using the find command to show me possible duplicates and delete them. For example: find . -type f -name "* - 7.mp4" and then sudo find . -type f -name "* - 6.mp4" -exec rm -f {} \; This method does rely heavily on emby's naming convention and on emby recognizing the episode and such. If everything goes well emby itself recognizes duplicates by changing the name to - 1 - 2 and such. Course when something isnt properly recognized the file has the date in it rather than season and episode, so that makes it much harder and i havent tackled that. On the bright side this little cleanup just freed up about 600 gigs of space on my server.
neik 870 Posted July 4, 2020 Posted July 4, 2020 @reggi's EmbyStats has some kind of duplicate detection if I am not mistaken. You might wanna give it a try. 1
seanbuff 1145 Posted July 6, 2020 Posted July 6, 2020 On 7/5/2020 at 2:24 AM, neik said: EmbyStats has some kind of duplicate detection if I am not mistaken. It does, and can confirm it works quite well.
reggi 415 Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 EmbyStat can calculate dupicates but I need to fix some bugs in it because it can give you false positives. If you have a movie transcoded into multiple bitrates it will also be picked up as duplicates for example. So I need to create a system where the user can flag the movie as a false positive so it's no longer displayed in the duplicate table.
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