TV series metadata issue

[Brendon 119]

Since updating to 4.6.6.0 it appears that the metadata folder in tv series is no longer being respected, setting have not changed on my end, yet emby is dropping images into the main season folder and not the metadata folder, it also suddenly appending '-thumb' to them which it hat not previously done, is this a deliberate change? If so, not a fan 

embyserver.txt

[blade005 185]

Noticed the same behavior with recent update.

Also, not a fan. 

[GrimReaper 4744]

Tbh, thought that was dumped long ago, along with legacy .xml formats, once switched to NFOs. Appending episode artwork with -thumb (or any other artwork, for that matter, with respective -type suffix, in certain setups) has been a standard for quite some time. Maybe time has come to modernize a bit?  

Edited November 19, 2021 by GrimReaper
Typo

[blade005 185]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

Tbh, thought that was dumped long ago, along with legacy .xml formats, once switched to NFOs. Appending episode artwork with -thumb (or any other artwork, for that matter, with respective -type suffix, in certain setups) has been a standard for quite some time. Maybe time has come to modernize a bit?  

The issue isn't just appending the image with -thumb, but it is no longer being written in the METADATA folder in the Season folder. It is being dropped in the Season folder.

[GrimReaper 4744]

2 hours ago, blade005 said:

The issue isn't just appending the image with -thumb, but it is no longer being written in the METADATA folder in the Season folder. It is being dropped in the Season folder.

Yes, that was what I was referring to with

3 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

has been a standard for quite some time

artwork being placed next to media file, not in separate subfolder. 

As a refrence, Big Guy wiki:

https://kodi.wiki/view/TV-Show_artwork

https://kodi.wiki/view/Artwork/Episode

Edit: Is your library setting "Save metadata and images as hidden files" still enabled? Maybe server upgrade unticked it? 

Edited November 19, 2021 by GrimReaper
Afterthought

[DarWun 349]

8 hours ago, blade005 said:

The issue isn't just appending the image with -thumb, but it is no longer being written in the METADATA folder in the Season folder. It is being dropped in the Season folder.

@blade005@Brendon This (unfortunately) was "fixed" back in May in the Beta channel. I thought it would have made it's way into the Stable builds prior to 4.6.6.0. But if you're just noticing this now, maybe it hadn't.

Edited November 20, 2021 by DarWun

[Brendon 119]

11 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Tbh, thought that was dumped long ago, along with legacy .xml formats, once switched to NFOs. Appending episode artwork with -thumb (or any other artwork, for that matter, with respective -type suffix, in certain setups) has been a standard for quite some time. Maybe time has come to modernize a bit?  

Why does the way files are stored need modernising? The way this has been working has been standard to me for a decade, i have over 200TB of libraries and this just makes everything look like crap, its is not neat it is not organised or modernised it's a damned junk drawer now.

[Brendon 119]

7 hours ago, DarWun said:

@blade005@Brendon This (unfortunately) was "fixed" back in May in the Beta channel. I thought it would have made it's way into the Stable builds prior to 4.6.6.0. But if you're just noticing this now, maybe it hadn't.

I had not noticed until this week mate, it started with the first update this last week right before 4.6.6.0 and i agree with your sentiment in the linked thread, throwing everything into the one folder makes it garbage, i normally go with the flow on emby changes but this one is annoying as hell. 10years almost 200TB of data and suddenly someone doesn't like how it's archived and decides to make a mess of mine lol

[GrimReaper 4744]

6 minutes ago, Brendon said:

Why does the way files are stored need modernising? The way this has been working has been standard to me for a decade, i have over 200TB of libraries and this just makes everything look like crap, its is not neat it is not organised or modernised it's a damned junk drawer now.

I can symphatize, but as with all things 'legacy' - it was bound to be abandoned at some point. As stated initially, and as @DarWun noted, I thought it already had.