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Guest Armalog
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I have tried everything. Emby also refuses to merge them into albums/seasons. Not a single thing of metadata is collected. I have everyone exactly as it should be and I've tried it all. Please let me know what log or screens you need to help me fix this.

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Guest Armalog
Posted

Every episode has a subfolder inside it under seasons containing only that one episode. This is done with every single episode under my TV folder.

GrimReaper
Posted

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in How to Report a Problem

How are your files named and organized? What library fetchers you have enabled and in what order? You can post server log and a screenshot or two showing your TV shows root and one series folder. 

 

 

Guest Armalog
Posted (edited)

I am only trying to accomplish the initial setup. I am using win10 and brave with rar2fs. All my movies have worked with a few exceptions.

 

Showname/ShownameSeasonNr/ShownameEpisodeNr i.e The.Office.US.1080p.BluRay.x264/The.Office.US.S01.1080p.BluRay.x264/The.Office.US.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.x264. But I have tried all the different variants. From having all episodes from all shows in the same folder thinking Emby merge option would work, to having just main folders for different shows with all the episodes from all seasons in those. Back to first one now again, like in the example.

Tried a number of variatons of fetchers and orders of them, noone has changed anything, still ZERO metadata. Now it's back to :

TheTVDB
TheMovieDb
The Open Movie Database

Sure I can I'll get some screens of folder not contaning any actual pirated data, wink wink.

In the middle of a new library scan of the TV show section so I'll let that finish and then get the log.

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GrimReaper
Posted

Yeah, though not the tidiest folder naming, it should generally work albeit I suspect number of those shows get queried with full folder name as no year cutoff and not getting any hits. Anyway, server log should show what's actually hapenning, let's wait for that one. 

TV Naming

Guest Armalog
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The thing is that with my movies, if there is any confusion with year there is still metadata, and the fact that not one single show gets any data at all is what baffles me. I can't change the names as they are part of other scenes, would be nice if emby works with the original scene naming scheme. And again, when there's an issue with a movie it's normally that emby finds the wrong metadata, it very rarely leaves a blank for movies, although that has happened too with no explanation.

 

 

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pwhodges
Posted
2 hours ago, Armalog said:

Every episode has a subfolder inside it under seasons containing only that one episode. This is done with every single episode under my TV folder.

I believe this is your problem.  Put the episode files directly into the season folder. 

The closer you follow Emby's naming recommendations, the better your experience will be (this applies to Movies too).

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html

https://emby.media/support/articles/Movie-Naming.html

Paul

Guest Armalog
Posted (edited)

This was just me trying another solution someone told me. I started of with the naming scheme you support, I am now back to that. Either way, I get zero metadata no matter what version I try. This is odd. My movies work fine, well mostly. I can't just rename scene releases.

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Also I can't just rename original scene releases.

Why not ? Its your files right ?

Guest Armalog
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Because they are still part of my share, on the scene. Even if I had enough money to double down on my hdd's, renaming thousands of folders aint going to happen. This is what you have scripts for, and I don't code. Also, I like that naming scheme. I'll try it on one show and see it that helps but I doubt it.

 

Yeah so I tried following your naming scheme and it still isn't pulling any metadata, even though it does it from my movies. There's something else wrong here. New log file.

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Anyway, I can use the identify option. It's an amazing app you have created. Thanks.

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pwhodges
Posted

You have a problem with your Series folder names.  Looking at your earlier log, I see, for example, that TVDB is being queried for, and failing to identify, a series called "Ahsoka.HDR.2160p.WEB.H265".

Try naming your series with just the name (and maybe the start year in parentheses).

I have a couple of series where I have different versions of the same series (e.g. original and remastered); in those cases I have added "original" and "remastered" to the name, but then I needed to add the TVDB id (in the format "[tvdbid=nnnnnn]") as well to force recognition.

Paul

Guest Armalog
Posted

I actually did try to rename all the folders with name.year and then it worked for a couple, like 6 out of 30. One of them, thebear.2020, the show about the chef (Jeremy Allen White) was identified as some really weird anime about something with nipples and a bear. Anyway, the identify option is good enough I guess.

pwhodges
Posted
2 hours ago, Armalog said:

One of them, thebear.2020,

When naming files to be recognised by a computer system "a bit like" is not "the same as".  And using the date that TVDB has also helps!

Try "The Bear (2022)" rather than "thebear.2020".  Yes, dots and parentheses matter.

In case of doubt, looking up on TVDB manually first should enable you to resolve any oddities.

Paul

Posted

Even with correct naming I still got my bear nipples caressed.

Guest Armalog
Posted
41 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

When naming files to be recognised by a computer system "a bit like" is not "the same as".  And using the date that TVDB has also helps!

Try "The Bear (2022)" rather than "thebear.2020".  Yes, dots and parentheses matter.

In case of doubt, looking up on TVDB manually first should enable you to resolve any oddities.

Paul

How is it that it seems to be a problem with only some folders, mainly tv. Like almost 99% of my movies got id' correctly even with scene names? I have another issue where one or two movies won't get at all added no matter what. Is there a way to manually add movies to an existing library? I'm not a coder but if you can manage what you already have, is it that hard to have the script work with other naming schemes? 

Posted

Here is how I name my folders, seasons and episodes.

Series Folder Format : The Series Title's! (2010) [TvdbId=12345]

Seasons : Season 01

Episodes : Single Episode: The Series Title's! - S01E01 - Episode Title
                   Multi Episode: The Series Title's! - S01E01-02 - Episode Title

pwhodges
Posted
2 hours ago, ALD76 said:

Even with correct naming I still got my bear nipples caressed.

Have you told Emby to save NFO files?  If so, you should at least delete those before trying again.

Paul

Guest Armalog
Posted
2 hours ago, pwhodges said:

Have you told Emby to save NFO files?  If so, you should at least delete those before trying again.

Paul

No.

Posted
6 hours ago, Armalog said:

How is it that it seems to be a problem with only some folders, mainly tv. Like almost 99% of my movies got id' correctly even with scene names? I have another issue where one or two movies won't get at all added no matter what. Is there a way to manually add movies to an existing library? I'm not a coder but if you can manage what you already have, is it that hard to have the script work with other naming schemes? 

There's multiple entities involved here, not just Emby. The name of your folder gets sent directly to the tvdb search engine, and when you name your folder "thebear.2020" without any spaces between words, then they come back with Save the Barn as the best match.

So general rule of thumb, the more you keep things simple, the more you'll find things will just work without having to deal with these headaches.

Guest Armalog
Posted
15 hours ago, Luke said:

There's multiple entities involved here, not just Emby. The name of your folder gets sent directly to the tvdb search engine, and when you name your folder "thebear.2020" without any spaces between words, then they come back with Save the Barn as the best match.

So general rule of thumb, the more you keep things simple, the more you'll find things will just work without having to deal with these headaches.

It was actually The.Bear.2022, doesn't period translate into space? Seems like an easy fix. But that's ok, everything is fine. Now I have other issues with ssl but I'll take them to the right thread. Consider this issue solved I guess. The samples is till an issue, the fix provided where you set sample size to 0 doesn't work for me.

pwhodges
Posted
1 hour ago, Armalog said:

It was actually The.Bear.2022, doesn't period translate into space?

23 hours ago, pwhodges said:

When naming files to be recognised by a computer system "a bit like" is not "the same as".  And using the date that TVDB has also helps!
Try "The Bear (2022)" rather than "thebear.2020".  Yes, dots and parentheses matter.

It would be less trouble for you to actually decide to follow the guidelines rather than experimenting to find where the limits are.

Paul

Guest Armalog
Posted
4 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

It would be less trouble for you to actually decide to follow the guidelines rather than experimenting to find where the limits are.

Paul

Guess I don't like spaces and parantheses.

Posted
43 minutes ago, Armalog said:

Guess I don't like spaces and parantheses.

Guess since you do not want to follow advice, you are on your own.
It's been spelled out to you just how it works.

Guest Armalog
Posted (edited)

  Why can't I delete posts? It is ridicoulus. 

 

5 hours ago, jaycedk said:

Guess since you do not want to follow advice, you are on your own.
It's been spelled out to you just how it works.

I already said many posts ago consider this solved. 

 

5 hours ago, jaycedk said:

Guess since you do not want to follow advice, you are on your own.
It's been spelled out to you just how it works.

And honestly how toxic are you, feeling the need to respond with this, to my response to another user. Calm down. Aren't you supposed to post inputs and actual helpful data? Especially since you seem to be a regular.

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pwhodges
Posted

Yeah - we're stuck with editing the content to nothing.  That's just how it is here.

I wouldn't mind if there were a time limit on deletion (e.g. no longer than an hour/day after posting) so that you can't rewrite history, which could be used maliciously.  But there's a particular bug in the software which makes it especially easy to post duplicate posts, and immediate deletion in that situation would be an obvious thing to allow.

Paul

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