How To Properly Set Up Two Versions of Same TV Series?

[musicmafia 38]

I have Rabbit Hole S1 in 1080 already in my library and just added the same season in 4K files, but those are not showing up in the library. Since Windows file explorer won't allow two folders of the same name, I have it set like this:

TV>Rabbit Hole>Season 01 

TV>Rabbit Hole 4K>Season 01 

All the episodes are named properly. What am I doing wrong and how do I set it up to have the 1080 version separate from the 4K version?

Thanks!

[Guest]

@musicmafiaTry putting all of the episodes in the same folder. Only one top level Rabbit Hole folder, one Season 01 folder, then S01E01-1080p and S01E01-4k. I believe then you will get a drop down selection for which video to use when you select the episode to play.

[pwhodges 2012]

Alternatively, just have a separate folder - to make Emby show it separately, ensure that in the setting for that library you have unticked "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" (near the bottom of the library's settings).

I suspect you have that setting ticked, but the file naming doesn't support the drop-down choice already mentioned.

Paul

[musicmafia 38]

10 hours ago, pwhodges said:

Alternatively, just have a separate folder - to make Emby show it separately, ensure that in the setting for that library you have unticked "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" (near the bottom of the library's settings).

I suspect you have that setting ticked, but the file naming doesn't support the drop-down choice already mentioned.

Paul

Thanks Paul. I looked through the library settings twice and missed it both times. Third time was the charm. Found it, unticked it and now each version of the series displays separately. Thanks again!

[musicmafia 38]

New question:

In my Emby library, how do I know which one is the 1080 files and which is the 4K files? In movies, you can scroll down and see the original path with the file name but I don't see anything like that for TV?

[pwhodges 2012]

I just change the series title in the metadata: "A Series (1080)" and "A Series (4k)".

You can see the technical details on the screen for each episode - not at a higher level, because you might have episodes in different resolutions etc (in fact, I have some old hard-to-find series which are like that).

Paul

[musicmafia 38]

59 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

I just change the series title in the metadata: "A Series (1080)" and "A Series (4k)".

You can see the technical details on the screen for each episode - not at a higher level, because you might have episodes in different resolutions etc (in fact, I have some old hard-to-find series which are like that).

Paul

Brilliant! I never would have thought of that, but it makes perfect sense! Now it displays as 4K in the library! Thanks