Meta Data Labeling

[Kwick 8]

Moved over to Emby from Plex, around 700 tv shows all file structured as so:

Game of Thrones
-show.jpg
-Season 01
--season01.jpg
--episode01.mkv
--episode02.mkv

-Season 02
--season02.jpg
--episode01.mkv
--episode02.mkv

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show.jpg is showing the cover correctly
but my season posters "season02.jpg" are not showing properly

is there anyway to fix this?

I was told to name all the season posters "folder.jpg" but omg the last thing is literally thousands and thousands of files named "folder.jpg", would "season02-poster.jpg" work?

Edited November 14, 2024 by Kwick
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[darkassassin07 652]

You're just going to have to follow Embys naming conventions:

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html

 

Specifically:

 

You could probably use cmd/bash to find and rename all 'season*.jpg' files to 'folder.jpg'

[Happy2Play 9780]

From a Season folder standpoint above is correct for naming scheme if there are no season folders seasonXX-poster is used.

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#season-images-without-season-folder

[Kwick 8]

7 hours ago, darkassassin07 said:

You're just going to have to follow Embys naming conventions:

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html

 

Specifically:

 

You could probably use cmd/bash to find and rename all 'season*.jpg' files to 'folder.jpg'

i must have read this entire section of the wiki 100 times.

if the season image is in the season folder it needs to be named folder?

[Kwick 8]

6 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

From a Season folder standpoint above is correct for naming scheme if there are no season folders seasonXX-poster is used.

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#season-images-without-season-folder

season images are currently "in" the season folder, do they need to be named folder.png?

[darkassassin07 652]

39 minutes ago, Kwick said:

i must have read this entire section of the wiki 100 times.

if the season image is in the season folder it needs to be named folder?

Any of these names will do:

So, 'poster.jpg' or 'folder.mpeg' for example.

 

'seasonXX.ext' will not work.

 

If you move all your episode files out of season folders, so all episodes of a single series are in a single folder; you could use something like 'seasonXX-poster.jpg', but I would not recommend this layout.

 

Either option, you will have to rename your image files.

[Kwick 8]

4 hours ago, darkassassin07 said:

Any of these names will do:

So, 'poster.jpg' or 'folder.mpeg' for example.

 

'seasonXX.ext' will not work.

 

If you move all your episode files out of season folders, so all episodes of a single series are in a single folder; you could use something like 'seasonXX-poster.jpg', but I would not recommend this layout.

 

Either option, you will have to rename your image files.

After a little bit of fiddling around I found that you can keep all episodes in the SeasonXX folder and put seasonXX-poster.jpg in the root and it works to organize season posters.

[rbjtech 5284]

6 hours ago, Kwick said:

After a little bit of fiddling around I found that you can keep all episodes in the SeasonXX folder and put seasonXX-poster.jpg in the root and it works to organize season posters.

This is the way emby will store/name the meta-data if retrieved 'new' from a provider - so this is very much supported.

@CarloThe Wiki appears to be incorrect/misleading on this topic.

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#series--season-images

Suggests it does not use seasonXX-poster.ext in the Show/Series root when it does (with Season Folders) and this is the default behaviour.

I'm unsure if https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#season-images-without-season-folder is correct as I use folders.  I presume it has to be as there would be no other reasonable way.

 

Edited November 15, 2024 by rbjtech
Added note to Carlo as the Wiki is incorrect/misleading

[Luke 42079]

@sa2000can review that. Thanks.

[Carlo 4561]

@rbjtechI'm trying to understand what the issue with the KB is on this.
There are two separate sections there explaining both with and without the use of season folders.
The main examples use the season folders.  It also shows the use of specials, behind the scenes & interviews folders as well.

[Kwick 8]

I figured it out without tech support How you guys don't understand is baffling. 

 

Please close the topic to prevent any further confusion to anyone else.

[Luke 42079]

3 hours ago, Kwick said:

I figured it out without tech support How you guys don't understand is baffling. 

 

Please close the topic to prevent any further confusion to anyone else.

Hi @Kwickwhat was the solution?

[Kwick 8]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Hi @Kwickwhat was the solution?

I will do a write-up on this post when I get off work in the morning.

[rbjtech 5284]

12 hours ago, Carlo said:

@rbjtechI'm trying to understand what the issue with the KB is on this.
There are two separate sections there explaining both with and without the use of season folders.
The main examples use the season folders.  It also shows the use of specials, behind the scenes & interviews folders as well.

I'm really not sure what's baffling you @Carlo

The information given is just plain incorrect - not sure how else you want me to explain.

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#season-images-without-season-folder

This is wrong - these are files created if you DO have season folders.  So in both cases - with or without folders - these files are created.

 

[Kwick 8]

42 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

I'm really not sure what's baffling you @Carlo

The information given is just plain incorrect - not sure how else you want me to explain.

https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#season-images-without-season-folder

This is wrong - these are files created if you DO have season folders.  So in both cases - with or without folders - these files are created.

 

It's like talking to a brick wall bro.

It's fine tho whatever. I decided it's not worth the time to write anything up, nothing will change in the updates anyways. 

[DarWun 349]

My experience is the same as @rbjtechin that the season poster images are created in the root folder regardless of whether or not you have season folders. For the default Emby settings, these images would be created whether or not there are already folder.jpg images in the season folders. There is a workaround to prevent the season images from being created in the root folder. In the system.xml file, there is a an option for Image Saving Convention. If that option is set as <ImageSavingConvention>Legacy</ImageSavingConvention>, the root season images don't get created.

Edited to add: Setting this item as legacy instead of the default impacts other image naming conventions for newly added media. I don't recall exactly what images are impacted at this point. But poster.jpg images will be named folder.jpg when acquired for example. Emby still respects poster.jpg images that are already in the library folders. At one time backdrop images would be acquired as background##.jpg instead of fanartxx.jpg. But that is no longer the case. 

Edited November 20, 2024 by DarWun

[sa2000 674]

On 15/11/2024 at 10:42, rbjtech said:

Suggests it does not use seasonXX-poster.ext in the Show/Series root when it does (with Season Folders) and this is the default behaviour.

I have added the following note to the wiki article https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#series--season-images

[rbjtech 5284]

1 hour ago, sa2000 said:

I have added the following note to the wiki article https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#series--season-images

Thanks @sa2000- but I think this is still misleading.

EMBY itself creates these files - so it's not about 'accepting' this format - this is what you get out the box on a brand new install.

[sa2000 674]

6 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

EMBY itself creates these files

it does not for me - but I run with "save artwork into media folders" unticked.

I will revisit this with that option enabled for a library and review the documentation again

[sa2000 674]

On 22/11/2024 at 10:47, rbjtech said:

EMBY itself creates these files - so it's not about 'accepting' this format

OK - I can see that now when save artwork with media folders enabled

I have removed the note and instead updated the table

TV Naming - Series and Season Images

On 22/11/2024 at 10:47, rbjtech said:

this is what you get out the box on a brand new install

Not strictly true because the library setup default for where images are stored is not in the media folders

[rbjtech 5284]

2 minutes ago, sa2000 said:

Not strictly true because the library setup default for where images are stored is not in the media folders

Gotcha - I guess we were both correct/incorrect .. 

Tks for the updates.