Stop quality upgrade from showing as new? “ movies”

[soupy14 1]

Hey everyone , 

Do we have an option when a movie upgrades to a different quality it doesn’t show as new? User on Reddit helped me do it for tv shows but it doesn’t seem to work for movies. 

Thanks

https://www.reddit.com/r/emby/s/gvsma0OcYs

 

 

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Realistically write nfo files with media will preserve date added value.  If you don't then upgrading media is new media as original is deleted from the database losing all metadata and readded as a new item.
 

 

[Miser 1]

Can I get a walkthrough on how to prevent my upgraded media from appearing in latest media please. I have upgrade a few older movies and there appear in latest media.

[seanbuff 1318]

20 minutes ago, Miser said:

Can I get a walkthrough on how to prevent my upgraded media from appearing in latest media please. I have upgrade a few older movies and there appear in latest media.

Ensure you have the 'NFO Metadata' plugin installed

Under your Library settings for each library:

Make sure NFO Reader and Saver are selected:

Then when you import media, an NFO file will be saved alongside the media with the <dateadded> tag

  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2013-01-05 14:44:15</dateadded>
  <title>Iron Man 3</title>

If you then replace this media with an "upgraded" version, as long as the NFO is left intact, it will re-use the same <dateadded> tag and won't appear on your "Latest" row

[Miser 1]

I have the plugin and both metadata savers and readers on. Still not working right.

[Luke 42079]

28 minutes ago, Miser said:

I have the plugin and both metadata savers and readers on. Still not working right.

Hi, have you checked the contents of your nfo files based on what was said above?

Did you preserve the nfo file when you changed the video file?

[Happy2Play 9780]

57 minutes ago, Miser said:

I have the plugin and both metadata savers and readers on. Still not working right.

What exactly did you do?  You can't just enable options on existing media as the nfo does not exist and requires refreshing all metadata to write nfo files on existing media.

[Miser 1]

I got working. Thank you for your help. Refreshed all meta and now it is good.

[soupy14 1]

On 15/08/2024 at 22:31, Happy2Play said:

What exactly did you do?  You can't just enable options on existing media as the nfo does not exist and requires refreshing all metadata to write nfo files on existing media.

Sorry need more help here, I enabled both settings for movies and tv shows I refreshed the meta data for both movies and tv shows. Do any settings need to be changed within the plugin? I take it save users watch data needs to be set and save image paths within nfo files enabled?

Save user watch data to nfo's for

NoneHome Media

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Enable this to save watch data to Nfo files for other applications to utilize.

Release date format

                     yyyy-MM-dd                 

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All dates within nfo's will be read and written to using this format.

Save image paths within nfo files

This is only recommended if you have other software using the nfo files that requires this.

Copy extrafanart into extrathumbs

When downloading images they can be saved into both extrafanart and extrathumbs if needed. This is only recommended if you have other software that requires this.

 

 

Edited November 5, 2024 by soupy14

[seanbuff 1318]

19 minutes ago, soupy14 said:

Do any settings need to be changed within the plugin? I take it save users watch data needs to be set and save image paths within nfo files enabled?

Well, if you're still referring to the request in your OP, then no, nothing needs to be changed in the NFO plugin settings. Both 'Saving user watch data' and 'image paths' have nothing to do with upgraded files being shown as a "new movie"

 

21 minutes ago, soupy14 said:

I enabled both settings for movies and tv shows I refreshed the meta data for both movies and tv shows.

Once you did this, did you start seeing .nfo files being saved alongside your media files?

[soupy14 1]

52 minutes ago, seanbuff said:

Well, if you're still referring to the request in your OP, then no, nothing needs to be changed in the NFO plugin settings. Both 'Saving user watch data' and 'image paths' have nothing to do with upgraded files being shown as a "new movie"

 

Once you did this, did you start seeing .nfo files being saved alongside your media files?

How do I check that?

[seanbuff 1318]

3 hours ago, soupy14 said:

How do I check that?

If you performed the steps I outlined in my previous post back on August 16, and Emby Server has the correct permissions to write to your media storage. You should see an .nfo file alongside your media files.

example...
D:\Movies\Iron Man (2008)\
                                                   backdrop.jpg
                                                   folder.jpg
                                                   Iron Man (2008).mkv
                                                   Iron Man (2008).nfo


What do you see in one of your media folders that you have refreshed the metadata for? Can you show us that?

 

[soupy14 1]

17 hours ago, seanbuff said:

If you performed the steps I outlined in my previous post back on August 16, and Emby Server has the correct permissions to write to your media storage. You should see an .nfo file alongside your media files.

example...
D:\Movies\Iron Man (2008)\
                                                   backdrop.jpg
                                                   folder.jpg
                                                   Iron Man (2008).mkv
                                                   Iron Man (2008).nfo


What do you see in one of your media folders that you have refreshed the metadata for? Can you show us that?

 

Thanks for the reply

 

Folder shows the movie and the ,nfo file. Plugin is installed I followed your steps to ensure nfo settings where enabled for the folders. radarr found a better quality release yesterday however emby still showing it as a new movie. 

Not sure what I am doing wrong. 

Edited November 5, 2024 by soupy14

[seanbuff 1318]

34 minutes ago, soupy14 said:

radarr found a better quality release yesterday however emby still showing it as a new movie.

You don't by any chance have Radarr writing metadata info also? You should disable this and leave it for Emby to handle.

Have you tried looking at the contents of the .nfo file (it's just a text file) -- what value does it show for the <dateadded> tag?

[soupy14 1]

20 minutes ago, seanbuff said:

You don't by any chance have Radarr writing metadata info also? You should disable this and leave it for Emby to handle.

Have you tried looking at the contents of the .nfo file (it's just a text file) -- what value does it show for the <dateadded> tag?

 

For Radarr under metadata it shows disabled for emby and all others. I did another refresh of all metadata for movies and tv shows in emby and will report back and see if that made any difference. 

 

nfo file shows the correct 

Example

<lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2024-11-04 15:07:53</dateadded>
  <title>Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost</title>

 

Again thanks for the help. 

Edited November 6, 2024 by soupy14

[darkassassin07 652]

3 minutes ago, soupy14 said:

 

For Radarr under metadata it shows disabled for emby and all others.

Super annoying issue I've found using Sonarr/Radarr: when a media file is replaced, Sonarr/Radarr will delete ALL associated files in the same directory. Images, subtitles, .nfo files, all of it.

It doesn't matter if it was Sonarr/Radarr replacing the media file, or it was done externally. It also doesn't matter if it was the arrs that imported those extra file types or it was Emby or another program to add them to the media directory.

When they notice the old file is missing they delete the 'extra' files, even when there is already an identically named replacement in the folder.

 

 

After months of searching, I haven't found a solution to this; I just move the files back from the recycle bin directory specified in Sonarr/Radarr if I need/want them. Most of the time I'm fine with Emby just grabbing new ones; but it does mean things like date added are not retained with upgrades/conversions.

[soupy14 1]

On 05/11/2024 at 19:47, darkassassin07 said:

Super annoying issue I've found using Sonarr/Radarr: when a media file is replaced, Sonarr/Radarr will delete ALL associated files in the same directory. Images, subtitles, .nfo files, all of it.

It doesn't matter if it was Sonarr/Radarr replacing the media file, or it was done externally. It also doesn't matter if it was the arrs that imported those extra file types or it was Emby or another program to add them to the media directory.

When they notice the old file is missing they delete the 'extra' files, even when there is already an identically named replacement in the folder.

 

 

After months of searching, I haven't found a solution to this; I just move the files back from the recycle bin directory specified in Sonarr/Radarr if I need/want them. Most of the time I'm fine with Emby just grabbing new ones; but it does mean things like date added are not retained with upgrades/conversions.

I had some movies upgrade today but didn’t delete the previous versions. When I delete the older version today it then didn’t show as a new movie in emby. 

[rbjtech 5284]

On 06/11/2024 at 00:47, darkassassin07 said:

Super annoying issue I've found using Sonarr/Radarr: when a media file is replaced, Sonarr/Radarr will delete ALL associated files in the same directory. Images, subtitles, .nfo files, all of it.

It doesn't matter if it was Sonarr/Radarr replacing the media file, or it was done externally. It also doesn't matter if it was the arrs that imported those extra file types or it was Emby or another program to add them to the media directory.

When they notice the old file is missing they delete the 'extra' files, even when there is already an identically named replacement in the folder.

 

 

After months of searching, I haven't found a solution to this; I just move the files back from the recycle bin directory specified in Sonarr/Radarr if I need/want them. Most of the time I'm fine with Emby just grabbing new ones; but it does mean things like date added are not retained with upgrades/conversions.

Under Media Management,  Import Using Script.

Using the arr variables, you can do the import manually - see custom-scripts