Genres for Holiday/Christmas Movies

[jmassaro87 28]

I have several Christmas/Holiday movies. At one point several years ago, I had gone through each individual movie and added the Christmas genre. Then a few years ago, I built my synology server moving over from an HTPC. Since then, my custom "Christmas" genre has disappeared from all but 4 movies which I know I have well over that.

Is there a way to rebuild what I had, or is it going to be a manual process since the genre "Christmas" or "Holiday" is not an official genre in the DBs that provide the metadata?

Edited November 22, 2023 by jmassaro87

[GrimReaper 4744]

2 minutes ago, jmassaro87 said:

Then a few years ago, I built me synology server moving over from an HTPC. Since then, my custom "Christmas" genre has disappeared from all but 4 movies which I know I have well over that.

How did you build that new server? Starting from scratch or restoring available data (NFOs/Artwork)? 

[jmassaro87 28]

9 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

How did you build that new server? Starting from scratch or restoring available data (NFOs/Artwork)? 

It was 6 years ago, so I don't recall my actual process but I believe it was from scratch. I built up the NAS, and the emby server then transferred the roughly 6 TB of files over to the new server.

Edited November 22, 2023 by jmassaro87

[GrimReaper 4744]

14 minutes ago, jmassaro87 said:

It was 6 years ago, so I don't recall my actual process but I believe it was from scratch. I built up the NAS, and the emby server then transferred the roughly 6 TB of files over to the new server.

In that case I'm afraid you'll have to re-add those genres as the only way to preserve custom edits (like adding custom Genres) is by writing NFOs with your media - if you didn't have those present at the time of ingestion on the new server, those edits would be lost. 

Edited November 22, 2023 by GrimReaper

[seanbuff 1318]

and you can use 'Bulky' from the Plugin Catalog to get those custom edits done quicker, allowing you to select multiple items and add new genres in one go.