andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Posted July 25, 2022 Hi - first off, can I say how fantastic emby is at finding series names etc from very little information. Theres a few Im struggling with, in order here in the importance to me. 1. Timeslip - a children's series from the 70's - there was only a single series - with 4 different stories - each about 6 episodes long. Ive tried to put each story in a separate folder - within a folder called time slip, ive tried the original file naming convention (S01 E01 P2) being series one episode one part 2 - this finds nothing I then changed the 4 stories into 4 series, with each "part" being a separate episode - this finds the first 4 episodes from story 1 and nothing else . Ive tried simply having the name of the episode - this again lists the first story on emby but on playback, its given the "parts" the wrong name and in the wrong sequence [part 2 of story 2 plays after part 1 of story 1 etc. Ive even cut the folder out - added again an episode at a time - but nothing puts all 26 episodes in place and most wont go past story 1 - any ideas guys? This was the most important question as media files are missing from emby. The second issue is less important as there are no files actually missing - simply misidentified namely 2. Startrek TNG it simply gives names - and consequently story lines - to episodes at random! i have no idea how or why - but -and this is a guess based on season1 it seems to be something to do with long stories that span 2 episodes. - theres nothing missing and i can cope lol but it would be nice if what the story line is described is actually the episode i end up watching. oddly, the original star trek also suffers from this - only slightly less so. Sorry if having 2 bites of the cherry in 1 post isnt allowed - but i thought that they may be related?
nuke11 24 Posted July 25, 2022 Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) Here is how I would name the folders and files. Folder Name : Timeslip (1970) Sub Folder Name : Season 1 File Names : Timeslip (1970) [S01E01].mkv/mp4 (whatever your file type is) For multi part episode files : Timeslip (1970) [S01E01-E02].mkv/mp4 For time slip there would be 26 episodes in Season 1. Timeslip - Aired Order - Season 1 - TheTVDB.com Edited July 25, 2022 by nuke11
andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Posted July 25, 2022 Hi Niuke - thanks for the quick reply - when the original format (s01e01p01 - s01e04p06) failed, that was my precise choice - i cant get any but the first 4 episodes to display (i believe there are 6 parts to story 1) once its "broken" a few times, what is the best way to make emby take another look at a series?
Luke 42078 Posted July 25, 2022 Posted July 25, 2022 Quote once its "broken" a few times, what is the best way to make emby take another look at a series? Hi, using the Identify feature on the series can help with this.
andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Posted July 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, using the Identify feature on the series can help with this. lol just tried this - its now disappeared completely! its very odd that it finds the first 4 episodes fine - then nothing - thats not even a complete story
andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Posted July 25, 2022 11 minutes ago, Luke said: What has disappeared? the entire timeslip series - together with artwork - identified it using tvdb number and it went! However, its now 100% working after yet another renaming epic - ill post to all on the topic - once i prove to myself whats happening
Luke 42078 Posted July 25, 2022 Posted July 25, 2022 It didn't disappear. It got changed into whatever you Identified it to. What did you Identify it to?
andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Posted July 25, 2022 Thanks Guys - it's fixed! Thank you Nuke 11 for the link to the tvdb page associated with the series - this was my first clue. named the first story EXACTLY as the name appeared in the "name" column in the tvdb. - all 6 episodes appeared! so what had i done wrong? - well its only my theory - but ive played and kinda proved it to myself - though the file name is unique, the "story" part of the name wasn't for a given story. Simply adding the part number in brackets at the end of the title - fixed the issue. hence only 4 episodes showing - because there were only 4 different "names" as far as emby was concerned - what i hadnt noticed was the names it used for the first 4 episodes of the first story were the names of the 4 stories in the series - so it had kinda split the file from its coresponding story? [i think] - it played the first 4 episodes of story one in sequence - yet named each episod as story1 story2 story3 and story4 Im not sure id even considered putting the part number of the story in brackets after the story name - if i hadn't seen the way tvdb handles things! - wonder if that works for star trek tng???? Once again many thanks guys - couldn't have done it without your input - we are never too old to learn eh?
andytipping 0 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Posted July 25, 2022 15 minutes ago, Luke said: It didn't disappear. It got changed into whatever you Identified it to. What did you Identify it to? yes it did - no poster no name - nothing lol - i deleted the whole folder and started again - fixed now but thanks - its obviously me on a learning curve
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