Mnejing 23 Posted April 18, 2023 Posted April 18, 2023 I get that Emby does it's level best to identify stuff, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly and frustratingly. For absolutely no particular reason today, Emby scanned one of my libraries, nuked half the metadata, and started redownloading it, identifying an entire folder of series as something else. Suddenly about 7-8 different shows, that were properly working earlier today, are now combined in to one show that absolutely ISN'T what it decided it was (it saw "Series" in the root folder, and literally decided "Series of Unfortunate Events from Netflix!"). Once it happens, there's no good way to recover. It literally went and misidentified hundreds of episodes. Short of manually editing hundreds of episodes of metadata (and you're absolutely insane if you think that's happening), you more or less have to move it and start over. I know if someone reads my post history, they'll see my last post was a reply about this not really being an issue. And honestly, it HASN'T been, until Emby randomly decided to do it's own thing today. Long story short, fixing this whole thing is a massive hassle, and people have been asking for YEARS for some kind of solution. The problem is the solution is "follow our nebulous naming guidelines!" which is a crappy band-aid fix. Let me unidentify, give me more control over my metadata. That it's so easy to get locked in to the wrong thing is frustrating and needless. Seriously though, metadata is functionally the core of Emby (look, most people don't care about the ffmpeg work, or the backend stuff, they care that Emby provides them a nice interface with lots of information, ie metadata). Not having enough control over it is silly. It's like buying a car, but requiring a chauffeur to actually drive it....
GrimReaper 4739 Posted April 18, 2023 Posted April 18, 2023 Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at:
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