Why don't episodes in my Sports library show up in Next Up?

[MBSki 1114]

Why aren't my Sports episodes showing up in Next Up? They show up in Continue Watching, but not Next Up. Is this a bug? I think they should be in both.

[ebr 16184]

Are they recognized as TV shows with proper seasons and episodes?  Doesn't look like it based on that display.  That's the only way they'd show in next up.

[MBSki 1114]

5 minutes ago, ebr said:

Are they recognized as TV shows with proper seasons and episodes?  Doesn't look like it based on that display.  That's the only way they'd show in next up.

They aren't in TVDb, but they are sequential. Do they have to be in TVDb (or another provider)? I would advocate for not requiring them to be in a provider in order to be added to next up.

[ebr 16184]

They have to be TV shows with season and episode numbers to Emby.  That doesn't necessarily mean they have to be in the metadata provider but that is the easiest way for that to happen.

Without that data (season and episode numbers) there is no "sequential" to them.  Only TV is included in Next Up at this time.

[MBSki 1114]

8 minutes ago, ebr said:

They have to be TV shows with season and episode numbers to Emby.  That doesn't necessarily mean they have to be in the metadata provider but that is the easiest way for that to happen.

Without that data (season and episode numbers) there is no "sequential" to them.  Only TV is included in Next Up at this time.

Hmmm, it seems it should work then. I have season and episode numbers as you can see by the name pulled. I must be doing something wrong. Any idea how I should be implementing sports shows so Emby picks up the seasons and episodes that I've identified?

[ebr 16184]

46 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

I have season and episode numbers as you can see by the name pulled

Just because the name contains that text doesn't mean they have that data in Emby.  The fact the name is showing like that indicates that Emby does not see that as a TV episode.  It is just showing the file name.  Look at the difference to the one next to it.

It would have to be structured and identified as a TV show and then with seasons and episodes.

[MBSki 1114]

1 minute ago, ebr said:

Just because the name contains that text doesn't mean they have that data in Emby.  The fact the name is showing like that indicates that Emby does not see that as a TV episode.  It is just showing the file name.  Look at the difference to the one next to it.

It would have to be structured and identified as a TV show and then with seasons and episodes.

Yes, understand. That's why I'm asking how I can configure it so it would be picked up by Emby. It sounds like the Emby database, which I can't control, needs an entry for the season and episodes. Maybe this would be solved by allowing custom seasons\episodes entered by users and only available to that specific user's server? Just a thought. Any other way to solve it?

[pwhodges 2012]

You can fill in season and episode values for each episode by editing the metadata, either from the menu in the episode view, or in the central metadata editor.  But I don't know if that would be enough in your case; I imagine that the library type would need to be TV series at the least.

Paul

[ebr 16184]

@cayars has extensive experience with setting up sports I believe.  He can probably help when he has time.

[MBSki 1114]

@cayars No rush, but when you have a free moment I'd be interested to hear your solution for this issue.

[crusher11 1101]

12 hours ago, ebr said:

Just because the name contains that text doesn't mean they have that data in Emby.  The fact the name is showing like that indicates that Emby does not see that as a TV episode.  

No it doesn't. I handle my sports the same way and I always have to manually edit the episode name to remove the "LEAGUE - s####e####" bit.

@mbarylski Try editing the metadata for each league and giving it a fake entry in the IMDB ID field. Doesn't matter what you put. 

[Luke 42078]

If they don't have season and episode numbers then that could be why.

[MBSki 1114]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

If they don't have season and episode numbers then that could be why.

They do have season and episode numbers, but apparently it needs to match a tv series in the Emby database. How would I make an entry in the Emby database so I could get a match?

[MBSki 1114]

7 hours ago, crusher11 said:

@mbarylski Try editing the metadata for each league and giving it a fake entry in the IMDB ID field. Doesn't matter what you put. 

I tried adding a fake entry in the IMDB ID field, but that didn't get it to add the next episode to next up. Maybe it needs a rescan and refresh though.

7 hours ago, crusher11 said:

No it doesn't. I handle my sports the same way and I always have to manually edit the episode name to remove the "LEAGUE - s####e####" bit.

So are you getting your sports episodes showing up in next up? Here's how I've named mine. There's no MLB tv series of course so the filename is 100% custom.

[crusher11 1101]

Does the episode meta data have episode numbers listed?

Is it a TV library? 

[MBSki 1114]

10 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

Does the episode meta data have episode numbers listed?

Is it a TV library? 

Ah, that did the trick! Thanks!

[MBSki 1114]

Something interesting that I noticed is that when I manually add the episode number it wipes out my played status. A little annoying, but I suppose I should've expected that. 

[crusher11 1101]

You shouldn't need to manually add it. Mine picks it up from the filename.

Is it a TV library? What's your file structure? 

[MBSki 1114]

52 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

You shouldn't need to manually add it. Mine picks it up from the filename.

Is it a TV library? What's your file structure? 

Yea, that's what I thought. I don't know why it isn't picking it up. It's a tv library and the structure is the same as all my tv series. 

Structure

• Sports
  • MLB
    • Season 2022

Edited June 14, 2022 by mbarylski

[crusher11 1101]

You have MLB above sports? Can you share a Windows Explorer screenshot and a screenshot of your library settings? 

[MBSki 1114]

6 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

You have MLB above sports? Can you share a Windows Explorer screenshot and a screenshot of your library settings? 

Ugh, no. I guess things are getting flipped around in my mind. Here's a screenshot.

[crusher11 1101]

31 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

Ugh, no. I guess things are getting flipped around in my mind. Here's a screenshot.

But what do the files look like in there? And what about the library settings?

[MBSki 1114]

1 minute ago, crusher11 said:

But what do the files look like in there? And what about the library settings?

Here are a couple more screen shots.

[crusher11 1101]

Turn off all the metadata and image fetchers.

[MBSki 1114]

Just now, crusher11 said:

Turn off all the metadata and image fetchers.

Alright, thanks. I'll give that a shot.