Movies abide by the date added field but TV series do not.

[pgriffith 88]

This has annoyed me for the longest time as well. Movies abide by the date added field but TV series do not.

I've had old movies in the past appear in the Latest Movies section if I've bulk moved some around my library locations (oddly never seems to do it if I only move 1 movie at a time). I simply edit the added date in the metadata and it instantly removes itself. Editing that date for a TV series does nothing. Ideally it would behave the same then come back to the Latest TV Series section again if a new episode gets added (in the case of a continuing show)

[Luke 42080]

@pgriffithHi there, everything abides by the date added field.

Can you please provide a specific example?

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[visproduction 315]

I believe this other post describes this issue.  I gave a solution that I use. - Hope that helps.
https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/127917-recently-added/#comment-1345267

 

[Luke 42080]

@pgriffith?

[pgriffith 88]

Hi Luke, sorry been a busy weekend.

I can't provide anything too specific but I can tell you when it last happened to me and what I did to cause it. (And this has happened MANY times over the years)

I have 2 machines that contain my libraries, I recently replaced a drive with a much bigger one. This drive mostly contains TV series that have ended, so I know they are not going to grow and can thus manage free space on the drive.

I shut down Emby and moved a heap of TV series that had now ended from my 'live" system to the new drive. Once the move had completed, I fired Emby back up, let it do a library scan to reflect the moved files. Once it had finished (I did few scans to be sure) some but not all of the show were now sitting in the Latest TV section on the home page.

This also happens when I move movies (again only some not all), but with a movie it's a simple case of editing the metadata to reflect an older date added and it instantly removes itself from the Latest Movies section.

With TV there is no way to remove a series from the Latest TV section other than wait for new episodes of other shows to "push" it off the end so to speak.

I would expect this behaviour if I take a drive full of media and add it to another Emby installation (then of course it is "new"), but I don't expect it to happen on a system that already had the TV Show on it, just moved to another library folder.

[Luke 42080]

Hi, did you check the date created timestamps of the episode files?