Emby Automatic naming from file name

[zebo51 22]

What is the character limit or how does emby grab/apply names to media that it doesn't find or use online sites like tvdb or moviedb etc?

I have a Mixed Content folder I put misc content in like racing videos.  Nothing is set for metadata or image fetching.  Typically the series will have two races at the same place so. 

Aaaa.bbbb.cccc.Race.One.1080p.WEB.x264

Aaaa.bbbb.cccc.Race.Two.1080p.WEB.x264

Emby will just set the name as Aaaa on both.  Then I can't tell which one is which.  Even if I go in and edit out the periods and put in spaces, it still only shows them as Aaaa.  I would really like to just drop content in and not have to edit the metadata. 

Even if it just put the full filename as the title I would be fine with that since I just watch them and delete.  I don't care about having or keeping any metadata.

Edited April 13, 2022 by zebo51

[GrimReaper 4762]

It's reading those files as movies as that is typical movie naming convention: moviename.year.ext, and you have Mixed content-type library. Since it's the same for both, they get named as such.

For no metadata involved, you should create Home videos & photos-type library. 

[GrimReaper 4762]

1 hour ago, zebo51 said:

What is the character limit or how does emby grab/apply names to media that it doesn't find or use online sites like tvdb or moviedb etc?

I have a Mixed Content folder I put misc content in like racing videos.  Nothing is set for metadata or image fetching.  Typically the series will have two races at the same place so. 

Aaaa.bbbb.cccc.Race.One.1080p.WEB.x264

Aaaa.bbbb.cccc.Race.Two.1080p.WEB.x264

Emby will just set the name as Aaaa on both.  Then I can't tell which one is which.  Even if I go in and edit out the periods and put in spaces, it still only shows them as Aaaa.  I would really like to just drop content in and not have to edit the metadata. 

Even if it just put the full filename as the title I would be fine with that since I just watch them and delete.  I don't care about having or keeping any metadata.

Not sure why you edited those filenames as in current form they can be misleading for anyone reading your post afterwards. 

When your files are named:

Aaaa.YEAR.bbbb.cccc.Race.One.1080p.WEB.x264

Aaaa.YEAR.bbbb.cccc.Race.Two.1080p.WEB.x264

as your original example has shown, they will be identified as Movies, as in Mixed content-type library parser will recognize either Movie or TV Show. You are focusing on irrelevant part there, One or Two is not important in this case; what is important, however, is that you create a different content-type library for such content OR rename and move that YEAR somewhere after Race numbers so they'll be recognized as different movies. 

[zebo51 22]

11 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Not sure why you edited those filenames as in current form they can be misleading for anyone reading your post afterwards. 

When your files are named:

Aaaa.YEAR.bbbb.cccc.Race.One.1080p.WEB.x264

Aaaa.YEAR.bbbb.cccc.Race.Two.1080p.WEB.x264

as your original example has shown, they will be identified as Movies, as in Mixed content-type library parser will recognize either Movie or TV Show. You are focusing on irrelevant part there, One or Two is not important in this case; what is important, however, is that you create a different content-type library for such content OR rename and move that YEAR somewhere after Race numbers so they'll be recognized as different movies. 

I changed them because I thought it would be easier to see the difference.  Anyway, making the library Home Videos and Photos worked.

Thanks