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I want to make sure I'm not overwriting all the selections I just made on all my tv shows. If I have it set to automatically refresh metadata, it isn't going to replace all of the images I selected is it?

Happy2Play
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Only if you select the option as the are two separate options.

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Posted

Sorry, I should've provided a screen shot. I meant the setting at the library level.

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Posted

Ok, and since there is no option to replace existing images, it doesn't replace them right?

Happy2Play
Posted
3 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

Ok, and since there is no option to replace existing images, it doesn't replace them right?

Correct.

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I'm going through some of my kids shows right now and I'm finding quite a few of the thumbs missing now since I enabled "automatically refresh metadata" option. 

Here's an example. I have a thumb for Casper and the Angels, because it shows up in my library. 

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But if I go to edit images, there's no thumb.

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So what happened? Did the thumb in Internet metadata get deleted from the source? How do I still show a thumb when that thumb is nowhere to be found? It seems to be ok since the thumb is somehow embedded in the Emby system, but it would be nice to know where exactly that image is. 

GrimReaper
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4 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

I'm going through some of my kids shows right now and I'm finding quite a few of the thumbs missing now since I enabled "automatically refresh metadata" option. 

Here's an example. I have a thumb for Casper and the Angels, because it shows up in my library. 

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But if I go to edit images, there's no thumb.

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So what happened? Did the thumb in Internet metadata get deleted from the source? How do I still show a thumb when that thumb is nowhere to be found? It seems to be ok since the thumb is somehow embedded in the Emby system, but it would be nice to know where exactly that image is. 

How does your Backdrop look for that show? 

Happy2Play
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Well you are not showing the entire picture as it could be a backdrop, since if no thumb it will move to display first backdrop.

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1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

How does your Backdrop look for that show? 

The backdrop is the same as the thumb. Is it pulling from the backdrop? i haven't seen that before.

GrimReaper
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1 minute ago, mbarylski said:

The backdrop is the same as the thumb. Is it pulling from the backdrop? i haven't seen that before.

Yep, that's why I asked, because Emby will use backdrop as thumb whenever thumb is not present. As @Happy2Play already stated. I would assume that that thumb is no longer available in your system. 

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Happy2Play
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Well that is something that is changing as we are removing language based backdrops provided from TMDB as all backdrops should be textless.  And Luke will eventually map them to Thumbs.

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Just now, GrimReaper said:

Yep, that's why I asked, because Emby will use backdrop as thumb whenever thumb is not present. @Happy2Play already stated. 

Ah, interesting, I didn't know that. I'll just save the backdrop locally so it always pull the one that I want it to.

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Just now, Happy2Play said:

Well that is something that is changing as we are removing language based backdrops provided from TMDB as all backdrops should be textless.  And Luke will eventually map them to Thumbs.

Agree, and good to hear. I always delete the text based backdrops. It's nice to have the text based backdrops in search, but only so I can save them locally as thumbs. 😁

Happy2Play
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Do you have the FanArt plugin? if so is it enabled?  Are you receiving errors?  As technically they are the only ones with thumbs.

 

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GrimReaper
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3 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

Agree, and good to hear. I always delete the text based backdrops. It's nice to have the text based backdrops in search, but only so I can save them locally as thumbs. 😁

Here's a small read regarding that:

 

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8 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Do you have the FanArt plugin? if so is it enabled?  Are you receiving errors?  As technically they are the only ones with thumbs.

 

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Yes, I have it enabled. The Casper and the Angels in my library is an old tv show, so there aren't any thumbs available for it.

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4 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Do you have the FanArt plugin? if so is it enabled?  Are you receiving errors?  As technically they are the only ones with thumbs.

@Happy2Play Can I ask you to do us a favor?  Create a notepad file just for meta-data facts like the above and every time you post something like that add it to the notepad doc.
In no time I bet you will have a lot of great information you could post that would help a lot of people understand Emby's relationships to it's Meta-Data providers and where info comes from as well as the unique things each provider can offer.

Happy2Play
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1 hour ago, cayars said:

@Happy2Play Can I ask you to do us a favor?  Create a notepad file just for meta-data facts like the above and every time you post something like that add it to the notepad doc.
In no time I bet you will have a lot of great information you could post that would help a lot of people understand Emby's relationships to it's Meta-Data providers and where info comes from as well as the unique things each provider can offer.

Images dependent on installed and enabled providers (FanArt/TMDB/TVDB/OMDB).

Primary: all providers
Logo: Fanart only, with future possibilities from TMDB
Thumb: FanArt only, with future possibilities from TMDB language backdrops
Banner: (Movies FanArt only) (TV FanArt/TVDB)
Disc: FanArt only
ClearArt: FanArt only
Backdrops: all providers

 

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@Happy2Play Is there any known reason why I get blank images when searching? Here's an example when searching for the Primary poster image. The last one is blank for some reason. Any idea why?

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Happy2Play
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3 hours ago, mbarylski said:

@Happy2Play Is there any known reason why I get blank images when searching? Here's an example when searching for the Primary poster image. The last one is blank for some reason. Any idea why?

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Would need to see the server log but pretty sure this is a defect of bad image urls from OMDB.

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Ok, is it a different query than the artist images or should I try running that again?

Happy2Play
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The odds are OMDB no longer has the image is has cached.  As this is pretty common for OMDB.  But would need to see the OMDB query.

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