Emby "Fetcher" file naming convention.

[ulrick65 30]

One of the things I have struggled with is when Emby saves Artwork into the Media folder. It uses the "generic" name of the type and extension, rather than using the filename followed by -<type>.

For example, when it saves the "Logo". It saves it as a filename:  "clearlog.png"

What I want is the movie name, followed by -logo like this:  "Some Movie (2024)-logo.png"

In the Movie Naming documentation located here:  https://emby.media/support/articles/Movie-Naming.html

It says that they are listed in the preferred order in which it searches for them.  For example, for the logo this is what is shows there:

Logo	{name}-logo.ext
	logo.ext

 

So I would expect that when Emby "creates" the file is would name it like the first option, but it doesn't. In fact, it names it as "clearlogo.png" as I said above, which is not in the list at all.

The same goes for the rest of the files (poster, banner, etc.).

Is there a way to get it to save the files with the full name as shown above?

I use separate folders for each movie as shown in the Naming Conventions document (linked above), like this:

\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009).mkv
\Movies\Pulp Fiction (1994)\Pulp Fiction (1994).mp4
\Movies\Reservoir Dogs (1992)\Reservoir Dogs (1992).mp4
\Movies\The Usual Suspects (1995)\The Usual Suspects (1995).mkv
\Movies\Top Gun (1986)\Top Gun (1986).mp4

Thanks.

[GrimReaper 4739]

What difference does it make? 

[ulrick65 30]

11 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

What difference does it make? 

Because that is the way the process that I use to populate metadata works. Other programs use the metadata and when Emby creates them without the proper name that I need, I end up with duplicate entries. Two of each file, one with the full movie name in the filename and one with just what Emby puts in there.

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, is it just one movie to each folder that you have?

[ulrick65 30]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, is it just one movie to each folder that you have?

Yes, the standard structure one movie per folder. Like shown above with a .nfo file and all the artwork, trailer, etc. in that folder, with the exception of the "extrafanart" which is in a folder below the movie called extrafanart.

Thanks. 

 

[Luke 42077]

Isn’t Emby doing the same thing as most other applications?

[ulrick65 30]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Isn’t Emby doing the same thing as most other applications?

I don't know about other applications...I set this all up years ago and didn't have Emby doing the Video artwork...I read in the documentation that the formats were are follows and that the first one was the first one it looked for. I assumed (incorrectly) that meant what Emby would use as default and create them as.

I see now that it doesn't. I was wondering if there was a way to change it...but sounds like there isn't?

I have another question posted here about having a library that is not automatically scanned when the scheduled scan runs. If I could do that, then I could use a script to rename them appropriately when I scan the particular library.  Otherwise, I have to just go in and manually do them when I add new content.

Thanks.

 

[Luke 42077]

OK those files are always supported if they are already there, but when Emby saves new files it will save based on it's internal rules, and those do vary slightly based on whether or not the movie is in it's own folder.

To be honest, this was done a long time ago to match Kodi conventions, that's why I think our method is more consistent with other applications than your method.

But more options to control this are certainly possible.

[ulrick65 30]

38 minutes ago, Luke said:

OK those files are always supported if they are already there, but when Emby saves new files it will save based on it's internal rules, and those do vary slightly based on whether or not the movie is in it's own folder.

To be honest, this was done a long time ago to match Kodi conventions, that's why I think our method is more consistent with other applications than your method.

But more options to control this are certainly possible.

Yea, those of us that have been around in this since the Xbox Media Player days on the original Xbox have gone through a lot of changes to stuff.  To be honest though, the filename included in the artworks was originally done for XBMC I think, and from what I can tell is still support by Kodi today...though I can't be sure because I use Emby, where I know it is supported, and then the companion to Kodi...so maybe that is the only reason it works in Kodi.

It would be really cool to have the ability to change the naming convention to one or the other perhaps.  This is what it was setup for originally (way back when, I can't tell you exactly):

 

 

 

I understand the priority of this in the grand scheme...so I fully understand it isn't likely anytime soon. 

Thanks @Luke