4.6.4 chapter issues and metadata updates not being respected

[blumamba 10]

I have two issues here.

 

1.  the metadata updates for titles that have the wrong metadata, even though saved will not be respected.  Meaning I use the sort title and place the titles in year order or in Marvels case chronological order.  Yet upon saving and rescanning it moves it where it wants even though sort was saved.  I have had to rename each title for it go where I want and then change it back......Or in the Transformers 1984 series (other tv series as well) it downloaded completely different metadata.  I only discovered it today as I ripped the 4k movie and replaced my Hd version.  Upon using the tvdb id and saving and refreshing, the series disappeared and will not scan back in.

I rescand and both, library and meta then restarted emby and still will not show the series.

2. I have noticed, not sure how long its been going on, that random titles sd, hd, uhd, have missing chapters.  All titles have been ripped using the same app and same settings and as I said appears random.

 

Any thoughts?

[Luke 42078]

Quote

I have noticed, not sure how long its been going on, that random titles sd, hd, uhd, have missing chapters

Hi there, can you please go over a specific example? Thanks.

[Luke 42078]

For the first case, we'd have to look at a specific example as well and catch it in the act. Best guess is, you have local nfo or xml files, and you've enabled reading from those files but not saving them.

So then you edit metadata, the files don't get updated, then later they get scanned in again and metadata returns to it's original state. Or maybe you enabled the library options to periodically refresh metadata from the internet.

[blumamba 10]

Maybe I didn't explain it well?

Using the metadata manager under the "sort title" i manually assign orders based on chronological release (for reboots etc) or time line order such as the marvel titles.  I do not use the collections features as I like them all displayed in the selection menu (personal preference). 

In the past all i had to do was refresh the browser and it was done in metadata manager as well and the changes were saved.  Now, none of that happens, it simply ignores the saved changes in the sort order and in the case of the TV series The Transformers (1984) it removed it from the menu completely after I updated the tvdb id to the correct one and refreshed.

I have not changed anything in the settings as I have it set up and working correctly as I wanted, until now.

In the case of the movie changes I had to go and rename all the "sort order" titles differently and save, then rename them correctly and save again, to which solved the "sort order" issue.

I had to remove the tv series from the folder completely, rescan, then move back into, and once rescanned it appeared as it should.

 

I don't know if this helps?

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi, removed it from what menu?

[blumamba 10]

The TV Series was removed from the metadata menu and thus does not show up in the library.  Once removed and replaced in the folder and rescand it shows up fine.

The chapter issue is something I think you may have to look into now I know what is actually causing it.

Once I replace the hd file with a uhd file and rescan, it fails to rescan the chapters.  It only does this with uhd titles.  If Its a new uhd title it does display the chapters, just not upgrading from hd to uhd.

The hd titles did display chapters prior to being upgraded to uhd then they are blacked out with 00 in the time slots.

[Luke 42078]

Chapters do get updated on same file replacements, provided the date modified timestamps of the file has changed.

[blumamba 10]

I simply put the new file in over the other, then manually rescan.  I have even reripped to HD vs UHD and its hit or miss on the updated chapters.  I thought I had it figured out but I still dont.

[Luke 42078]

Yes if you edited the embedded chapters within the file, then that's all you need to do.

[blumamba 10]

I did not edit anything.  I just re rip and drop (cut - paste)  file in to preexisting monitored file and "replace" old file, then manually rescan.  I still get blank chapters.  I tried to remove the entire file, which did work, after replacing, then that stopped working too.  So I am stumped?

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, blumamba said:

I did not edit anything.  I just re rip and drop (cut - paste)  file in to preexisting monitored file and "replace" old file, then manually rescan.  I still get blank chapters.  I tried to remove the entire file, which did work, after replacing, then that stopped working too.  So I am stumped?

You have the server log for this and ffmpeg log if present.

[blumamba 10]

I can get one if needed through the app?  But what is it going to show when I dont even find these movies without chapters until I get ready to watch them?  That could be months.....I have over 1300 movies and I randomly find them.

[rbjtech 5284]

To reset chapters, you need to refresh the metadata on the item, or library (for all items) - running just a library scan will not do this.

If there are no 'real' chapters, then Emby will create them for you every 5 minutes.

Edited February 1, 2022 by rbjtech

[blumamba 10]

I will give that a try, but I seem to thing I did it on the individual item and it made no difference.  I will try a refresh on the metadata for the library itself.  Wont that reset my "sort order"?

[rbjtech 5284]

be careful doing it at the library level - try and just reset the metadata on the individual item and it should reset the chapters.  This assumes the original file has no chapters in it - use mediainfo etc to verify.  if it does, then emby will simply import these.  if they are wrong, then you'll ned to edit those externally to emby.

[Bottles51 74]

Try moving the tv show from your shared file re-scan library, replace tv show and re-scan again. I have had to do this many times to fix meta and even numerical order.