Should I rebuild the server?

[3dbinCanada 3]

Hello, I stumbled across Emby and installed the latest server application on a Windows7 laptop. I really like Emby as it allows me to keep my existing folder structure while retaining and displaying my album artwork which Plex and other server clients were not able to do. My  media is located on an attached USB drive identified as drive G. Under G, I have two folders, one for music which is further subdivided into 8 other subdirectories according to my definition of music genre. The other folder at the same level as music is movies. When I set up the server, I set the library path to mixed as I started at the root directory of G. Should I have selected music and started scanning my library G:\music for music and do the same for movies, G:\movies ? The second question is, how do I rebuild the server? Many thanks.

[Abobader 3470]

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[Eigeplackter 91]

Yeah, most people have different libraries depending on content.

I have

Movies

TV Shows

Audiobooks

They are all hosted on the same NAS Volume, but in different subfolders.

 

Rebuild ? You mean the NB was just a test and now you want to "go live" on a dedicated device ?

If you have an active Emby Premiere membership there's a tool to save and restore the config.

But it's not saving the actual metadata, just the settings and plugins.

 

If you go to the webgui and click on the ... next to your Emby Server name you can see the stored locations.

As it's a Windows you are currently running, it should all be located under Program Files - Emby...

There should be your metadata location, mine for synology is:

	/var/packages/EmbyServer/var/metadata

 

That's where the library information is stored, you can copy and paste it, if you stick to the OS type.

Idk if you can copy a Windows DB to i.e. a synology.

 

 

 

[Luke 42085]

Hi, yes I would suggest doing multiple libraries using the subfolders in order to be able to utilize all features. Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[3dbinCanada 3]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, yes I would suggest doing multiple libraries using the subfolders in order to be able to utilize all features. Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

How do I rebuild it? What subfolders are you referring to?  The genre sub folders or music/ movie subfolders?

[TMCsw 249]

start here:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159113-music-naming

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159110-tv-naming

Edited January 2, 2023 by TMCsw

[seanbuff 1318]

12 minutes ago, 3dbinCanada said:

How do I rebuild it? What subfolders are you referring to?  The genre sub folders or music/ movie subfolders?

Simply remove the "mixed-content" library, and create two new ones for Music type (G:\music) and Movies (G:\movies) type respectively.

Use the "..." on the library, and select "Remove"

[3dbinCanada 3]

On 01/01/2023 at 21:18, seanbuff said:

Simply remove the "mixed-content" library, and create two new ones for Music type (G:\music) and Movies (G:\movies) type respectively.

Use the "..." on the library, and select "Remove"

That didnt work out well for me at all as it wiped the contents of my disk. I was fortunate that I have multiple drives up to date with the one that got purged. I ended up splitting the mixed library into music and movie folders. I have been busy cleaning up improperly tagged files.

[Happy2Play 9783]

8 minutes ago, 3dbinCanada said:

That didnt work out well for me at all as it wiped the contents of my disk. I was fortunate that I have multiple drives up to date with the one that got purged. I ended up splitting the mixed library into music and movie folders. I have been busy cleaning up improperly tagged files.

Little confused as removing a Library has nothing to do with Delete.  Do you have the server log for when you did this?

[Luke 42085]

Correct. Removing a library only takes it out of Emby Server and doesn't touch the underlying media files.

[3dbinCanada 3]

I see where I went wrong. I added a photo library and I was able to remove it without deleting its content off the hard drive.