Emby Media showing folder name instead of Movie Name

[lordjynx 1]

I'm having an issue with Emby randomly creating folder names for the movie name instead of the metadata movie.nfo file that radarr is creating for a movie.

I'm using local metadata only because radarr takes care of the metadata generation and I don't need two metadata sources of truth.

My folder names are like so (I don't like spaces or () because Linux considers them all special characters)

Movies_Main\Collection (if applicable)\Movie_Name_YYYY\movie_name_yyyy.mediainfo-etc.mkv

When viewing in Emby, random movies will show incorrectly like this:

Example: Transformers_Rise_of_the_Beasts

no year of release, etc.

A snip-it of my movie.nfo that radarr generates looks like this:

<movie>
  <title>Transformers: Rise of the Beasts</title>
  <originaltitle>Transformers: Rise of the Beasts</originaltitle>
  <sorttitle>transformers rise beasts</sorttitle>

the year is listed further down like all the other movies.

 

Does anyone have an idea what could be happening?

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[lordjynx 1]

I noticed on the movies that are having issues, the original title in the metadata is blank:

(the movie.nfo has the Original title in it though)

Messed up movie:

Working movie:

 

Edited March 1, 2024 by lordjynx

[Luke 42080]

Hi, are you able to reproduce this again with another new movie?

[lordjynx 1]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, are you able to reproduce this again with another new movie?

It's random when it happens.  In the cases where the movie did this, I did a "search for new release in Radarr", downloaded a new release, then it fixed itself in Emby.

Does that make sense?

Edited March 1, 2024 by lordjynx

[lordjynx 1]

@LukeI managed to fix it!

There was an extra .nfo file in the same folder... As soon as I removed that and just left the movie.nfo, it fixed it instantly after a rescan!

I tested it on multiple folders.. same result!

Sorry to waste the forum with garbage!

[Luke 42080]

What nfo was it?

[lordjynx 1]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

What nfo was it?

So, some of my files had additional .nfo files along with them detailing file qualities, smaller metadata, etc.  Essentially, it came with the movie files as an additional file.

I can PM you if you want further details.

[rod626 3]

I'm having a similar issue where Emby randomly names a video clip with the folder name rather than the file name. I have all metadata sources, etc. disabled. To fix it, I just need to delete the library and recreate it once a week.

[Luke 42080]

6 hours ago, lordjynx said:

So, some of my files had additional .nfo files along with them detailing file qualities, smaller metadata, etc.  Essentially, it came with the movie files as an additional file.

I can PM you if you want further details.

Sure, thanks.