ulrick65 20 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) I moved my Emby server from a Windows 7 machine over to my Synology. I didn't migrate any of the cache or metadata (with the exception of people, which I moved in afterwards). I use Metabrowser and always have, I don't have Emby manager the metadata...in fact, Emby has never had write access to the media folders. The only issue I am having is that I assumed when the library built itself it would use the "Added" tag in the movie.xml files....but it didn't. It appears to have used the date they were added to the library (which is the default for the setting in the Library/Metadata setting. The setting says: "If a metadata value is present it will always be used before either of these options" but that doesn't appear to be what happened and the movies are all jumbled up. What can I do to force it to read the movie.xml instead? I am guessing rebuilding the library of course...but since it takes several hours to do so on my 1512+, I want to try and be sure I only do it one more time. Thanks. ulrick65 Edited July 17, 2017 by ulrick65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37009 Posted July 17, 2017 Solution Share Posted July 17, 2017 Hi, do you have the xml metadata plugin installed? You need this now for movie.xml support. Then it will read your added value. Please keep in mind that we consider this format legacy now and strongly advise switching to nfo, which metabrowser supports. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulrick65 20 Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Hi, do you have the xml metadata plugin installed? You need this now for movie.xml support. Then it will read your added value. Please keep in mind that we consider this format legacy now and strongly advise switching to nfo, which metabrowser supports. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks ! Thanks Luke... I had no idea there was such an animal...I will look it up and install it and then rebuild tonight. Yes, I have wanted to switch over to nfo, but I have so many movies across multiple file servers, drives, etc. that to get all 4000 of them done will be a chore. If there was an easy program to convert them all, it would be really cool...know of anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulrick65 20 Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 That did the trick. Thanks Luke. Here's the real kicker: I've been using this for years...not sure when that plug in came out, but ever since then my metadata has not been displaying right. The movies show up right because it was using the data added...but all the other metadata has been downloading off the internet (rather than using my local file)....and I never noticed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 What do you mean by not displaying right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulrick65 20 Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 What do you mean by not displaying right? I meant that I thought it was displaying all the metadata that I maintain in metabrowser...but since I did not have that Plugin installed it has been displaying metadata from the internet I assume. My point was that I did even notice it...it seemed all good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimw338 0 Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Why won't macOS write the "Date Added" attribute for files on a Synology DSM? I haven't managed to find an answer elsewhere.. I'm using a Synology 216j *without* any media management things installed - I'm just using it in Basic (just separate drive) with 2 drives. My problem is that MacOS won't write the "Date Added" extended attribute for any files. Any idea why? Thanks, Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 I'm not sure. @@FrostByte do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5042 Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Not really. The only thing I can think of is enabling the MAC file service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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