Multi-episode identification fails after 4.8.1 upgrade

[DarkStar1977 119]

Hi, another one:

Multi-episode seems are not working properly, as you can see on the screen, the episodes are correctly identified as multi-episodes in all season (coma separated titles and descriptions):

But the episode numbering from episode 17, is not reflecting that each one is a multi-episode, in fact, the non-numbered chapters appears as missing:

And, yes, the naming is correct on the files:

I'm really thinking seriously to reinstall 4.7.14, because this new version is full of surprises, and not good ones

[Happy2Play 9780]

Same discussion here but personally have not been able to reproduce.  For some reason Emby partially failing to write your episodenumberend

 

But dev will have to comment further on possible causes.

[DarkStar1977 119]

@Happy2Playthanks, at least I'm not alone in this one.

Something has changed from 4.7.14 verssion as some other kind of multi.episode naming stoped to be identified as multi-episodes.

To give you an example, I had for plex compatibility some episodes named:

1x01-02-Episode name.s01e01e02.mkv

This naming was recognized as a multiepisode both by plex and emby because of the s01e01e02 included in the fillename, after upgrading to 4.8.1, those have not been recognized anymore by emby having to rename them to:

S01E01E02-Episode name.mkv

So, my conclusion is that something has been changed in the new version on multi-episodes identification, not sure what, but my guess is that there's something wrong with episodes beyond episode 20, as in the other discussion and my case all the episodes affected are beyond that number.

Hope this helps.

[Happy2Play 9780]

I have not found a variable to cause it not work on my test systems.  In your case you don't appear to write nfo files so something in the database update did not maintain the linked episodes even though the title and overview appear correct.  But per your image it is hit and miss a up to E16 it worked properly.

 

 

[DarkStar1977 119]

2 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

I have not found a variable to cause it not work on my test systems.  In your case you don't appear to write nfo files so something in the database update did not maintain the linked episodes even though the title and overview appear correct.  But per your image it is hit and miss a up to E16 it worked properly.

 

 

I still think it's a problem of episodes beyond specific number ... maybe it's 17th ... no other clue

[DarkStar1977 119]

No, it's completely Random, here's another example with lower episode numbers:

[Luke 42077]

Try refreshing the metadata on the ones that don't have it and see if that helps.

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Try refreshing the metadata on the ones that don't have it and see if that helps.

you can see a nfo over in other topic but I can't reproduce.  It is wierd getting correct TITLE and Overview per multi-episode but not episodenumberend.

 

[Luke 42077]

3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

you can see a nfo over in other topic but I can't reproduce.  It is wierd getting correct TITLE and Overview per multi-episode but not episodenumberend.

 

It probably is getting it but then getting blanked out later, so that's what needs to be figured out.

[Luke 42077]

HI, this will be resolved in the upcoming 4.8.2 maintenance release. Thanks.

[DarkStar1977 119]

On 2/28/2024 at 7:11 PM, Luke said:

HI, this will be resolved in the upcoming 4.8.2 maintenance release. Thanks.

I've installed 4.8.3, run a complete library scan and the problem persists.

Updating show metadata as well not solves the issue.

 

Edited March 2, 2024 by DarkStar1977

[Luke 42077]

5 minutes ago, DarkStar1977 said:

I've installed 4.8.3, run a complete library scan and the problem persists.

Updating show metadata as well not solves the issue.

 

Existing impacted episodes might require manual refreshes of metadata and/or manual fixup. Thanks.

[DarkStar1977 119]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

Existing impacted episodes might require manual refreshes of metadata and/or manual fixup. Thanks.

Manual refresh of episode metadata does nothing and does not solve the issue.

What's a "manual fixup" ?

[Luke 42077]

1 minute ago, DarkStar1977 said:

Manual refresh of episode metadata does nothing and does not solve the issue.

 

Hi there, let's look at a specific example:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks.

[DarkStar1977 119]

FYI, removing show identification and identifying it again resolves the issue but not updating metadata of the show, update the metadata of the episode or a library scan.

[Happy2Play 9780]

What providers are enabled on the library?

Almost sounds like maybe provider cache but just guessing if removing and readding corrects the issue.

You could test finding the providerid per provider of a show that still has the issue and deleting its cache folder and Refreshing metadata on that Show.  Library scan will not correct the issue.

 

 

[DarkStar1977 119]

2 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

What providers are enabled on the library?

Almost sounds like maybe provider cache but just guessing if removing and readding corrects the issue.

You could test finding the providerid per provider of a show that still has the issue and deleting its cache folder and Refreshing metadata on that Show.  Library scan will not correct the issue.

 

 

I've only have enabled TheTVDB

[Happy2Play 9780]

Do you write nfo file or is database only data?

Did you try the cache metadata test I mentioned but that is just a guess.