TV Shows never identified with Emby [Jellyf. & Plex OK]

[adminExitium 355]

That may be because the Windows build had issues: 

You may want to wait for the 4.8.0.49 build to be available and try that once.

[aldriglikvid 4]

1 minute ago, adminExitium said:

That doesn't look like the latest version. The logs indicate you are running version 4.8.0.47 whereas the changes for this were added in 4.8.0.48.

That's indeed encouraging if that's the case. I did a full uninstall via Revo (+delete register/cache). And then installed the Beta repo. However, I'll try it all over again tonight.

[aldriglikvid 4]

Now have .49 installed and I did a full meta refresh, to no avail unfortunately. However, I'm thankful for the support in this troubleshooting but I'll go ahead and manually identify the library. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes in total. 

 

Bless 

[adminExitium 355]

Logs would be helpful of a new scan with .49 in case there is some edge case still missed. Since the support has been added, may as well get it fully working.

[aldriglikvid 4]

Fair enough. Here: 

embyserver (1).txt

[adminExitium 355]

Thanks. I don't see any obvious errors now and I am not sure of the exact changes that were done or the corresponding logs for those so @Lukewill need to take a look when he is available.

[rbjtech 5284]

The file naming is not great tbh - but I think there should be enough info to recognise items ..

The detail is there - it's just buried in other repetitive folder name text.

If Empy is expecting 'Season 1', 'S01' etc and not parsing it from the full folder name - then this is why it's remaining unidentified.

Edited September 30, 2023 by rbjtech

[adminExitium 355]

Yeah, but Luke's screenshot in the previous page showed the same exact name getting identified correctly, not sure what's the difference then... 

[rbjtech 5284]

1 hour ago, aldriglikvid said:

Now have .49 installed and I did a full meta refresh, to no avail unfortunately. However, I'm thankful for the support in this troubleshooting but I'll go ahead and manually identify the library. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes in total. 

 

Bless 

I believe a metadata refresh is not going to re-identify a show - thus needing to 'remove identification' and then try and 're-identify' it again.

If you do decide to rename, then using the Media Management aspect of Sonarr is the perfect tool for the job - renaming both folders and filenames to a configurable template with metadata sourced from the metadata providers.  It will even add the provider Id's into the filename if you add to the template.

[aldriglikvid 4]

2 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

I believe a metadata refresh is not going to re-identify a show - thus needing to 'remove identification' and then try and 're-identify' it again.

If you do decide to rename, then using the Media Management aspect of Sonarr is the perfect tool for the job - renaming both folders and filenames to a configurable template with metadata sourced from the metadata providers.  It will even add the provider Id's into the filename if you add to the template.

All right. Is it possible to un-identify a library or a set of shows that never identified in the first place, or do I need to do it show by show? One could perhaps have assumed it would be un-identified when I uninstalled the software and deleted the cache, no? 

 

Although I understand the arguments that I could fix this by installing 3rd party software, one could also make the argument that Plex and Jellyfin is able to identify 100% of files without a specific folder structure. 

I might even be so rude and argue that that disk:\shows\showname\filename isn't an out-of-the-world irrational folder structure, to begin with.

[rbjtech 5284]

9 minutes ago, aldriglikvid said:

All right. Is it possible to un-identify a library or a set of shows that never identified in the first place, or do I need to do it show by show? One could perhaps have assumed it would be un-identified when I uninstalled the software and deleted the cache, no? 

If you did this with .48 - then yes, I agree, this should have been a blank canvas to begin with.

9 minutes ago, aldriglikvid said:

Although I understand the arguments that I could fix this by installing 3rd party software, one could also make the argument that Plex and Jellyfin is able to identify 100% of files without a specific folder structure. 

Again, no debate here - the 'data' is there in the folder and file names - emby just needs to parse it.

[aldriglikvid 4]

@rbjtech @Luke@adminExitium


I'm delighted to inform you that after my full uninstall/re-install of v. .49 the entire TV Show library was identified from the start, similar to peers Jellyfin and Plex. Impressed with the development. Keep it up, gents. Thanks! 

[Luke 42078]

Excellent. Thanks for the feedback !