Duplicate Entries?

[rodainas 191]

Then try the naming suggested by the kb article applyng it to both folder and filename, it should make a difference.

ID Tags in Folder & File Names

Emby can also read a Meta-Data ID from the name.

Format:

Name (Year) [tmdbid=xxxx]

Emby supports the following tags with the host website for lookup.

tmdbid  (https://www.themoviedb.org/)

imdbid  (https://www.imdb.com/)

tvdbid  (https://thetvdb.com/)

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes as I said the rule must be followed for auto grouping.

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Each version must begin with the folder name, followed by " - ".

 

[JasonNalley 37]

So, it's all sorted...  A few thoughts on the subject though...

Movies that share the same directory, that has a movie title and not simply /Movies, and no extras tag(s) should probably auto-group to begin with; having to include the entire folder name in the filename uses twice the characters (and some OS's have a character limit for Path length).  When set up using Movies/Movie Name (year) - anything else/(files) A scan should probably look at the folder name rather than the individual filenames inside of it to get the initial match, then use the filenames for version sorting.  It seems more efficient than probing each file and making sure they match the folder name before anything else.

Also, as you can see from the screenshots above, I save all of the posters, art, logos, etc. inside of the directory, specifically so that re-scanning doesn't take so long (All the metadata is already present), that didn't seem to work, I'm not sure why the rescan decided to freak out, but it ended up re-downloading thumbs instead of posters, and all kinds of things, I ended up having to delete all of the .jpg, .png, .nfo, and .bif files (even though I used Advanced File renamer to re-name them correctly).  This seems like a bug, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna try and reproduce it

Documentation indicates that tmdb id is preferred, however, I've had several movies mysteriously change from one to another on tmdb since the content is user-editable.  imdb never changes, once a movie is assigned an ID number, it's stuck with that ID, so that's why I chose imdb over tmdb.  That's just food for thought.

Thanks to you guys for your help with the matter.  Hopefully I'll never have to go through that again

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback.