Emby ignoring images in metadata folder

[Brendon 119]

Why is Emby suddenly ignoring images in metadata folders? It keeps re-downloading them and if i remove them it leaves me with broken images, i get that they are no longer being placed in the metadata folder as annoying as that is, but it should still read them from there, having to redo structure for over 1500 tv shows is just a kick in the teeth if the case is it no longer does that.

[Happy2Play 9783]

@Brendon Will guess the change to XML metadata plugin

I am not having an issue as episode parser reads <filename> in my episode xml.

XmlMetadata/EpisodeXmlParser.cs at master · MediaBrowser/XmlMetadata (github.com)

[Brendon 119]

@Happy2Play i did post in there mate but got no answer so thought it may have been outside that scope of that topic.

[Happy2Play 9783]

2 minutes ago, Brendon said:

@Happy2Play i did post in there mate but got no answer so thought it may have been outside that scope of that topic.

Do you use the xml plugin? 

If so the I would think it is the removal of EpisodeLocalImageProvider.cs.

XmlMetadata/EpisodeLocalImageProvider.cs at 905fa5038a1448fb74620c8e26e6d34ee8a57cf9 · MediaBrowser/XmlMetadata (github.com)

But yes @Luke would have to comment further as that code looked in the hidden metadata folder.

[Brendon 119]

@Happy2Play that plugin does exist on my server but i done away with .xml data a cple of years ago and switched it all to .nfo

[Happy2Play 9783]

1 hour ago, Brendon said:

@Happy2Play that plugin does exist on my server but i done away with .xml data a cple of years ago and switched it all to .nfo

But if you have anything in season \metadata it is required to read that legacy info and the change in that plugin I believe eliminated that.

As Emby does not use write to that location ie writing new images.