Fix movies incorrectly treated as series

[hemsimmons 0]

I have 4 movies in the Open Season franchise that seem to think they are a tv series instead of a movie --- presumably because the folder names of each movie are "Open Season", "Open Season 2", and "Open Season 3" (plus "Scared Silly"). How can I override that and give it the IMDB ID instead of the TVDB ID? (or reidentify somehow in the folder/item names?)  It is in a "Movies" parent folder but part of a mixed content library because, I'm sure you know, what a conglomeration animated items can be.

[Neminem 1519]

Its in a Movie library ?

If it is then try 

Open Season (year) {TmdbId-XXXX}

Folder naming.

In fix libraries naming is really important.

TV Naming and Movie Naming

Edited December 20, 2024 by Neminem

[pwhodges 2012]

5 hours ago, hemsimmons said:

It is in a "Movies" parent folder but part of a mixed content library

Mixed content libraries have to follow the naming rules more strictly than movie or TV libraries can get away with, because the folder structure is how Emby decides whether it is looking up a movie or a series.  Your "Movies" folder breaks that.  Reading and following the naming guidelines linked above really is a great contributor to Emby happiness!

Paul

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes complete structure and naming will be required to see the big picture here as I will guess the nested folder structure with those names could be an issue.  But ultimately it may be as easy as adding (YEAR) to their naming scheme.

[hemsimmons 0]

They already had the years in the names.  I removed the Open Season folder from the movies folder. Removed all of the .nfo files. Renamed them to incluode the IMDBID in the file name, put them back in the Movies folder, and they are STILL treated as a tv show   

[GrimReaper 4740]

Try adding providerId to folder name, i.e.

Open Season (2006) [tmdbid=7484] 

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes your structure makes it a Show/Series and note filename is typically not used at all unless you have a flat structure.

So as mentioned you may get away with adding year to each movie folder but may not as you have created a structure to be seen as Show/Series do to then name of the media.

I use to nest them but was running into other issues.

[hemsimmons 0]

I moved the year and IMDB IDs to folders and unnested the folders and it completely snafued all of my other animated movies.  It now thinks EVERYTHING is a series and totally messed up a lot of the posters.

 

All because these movies have "Season" in the title.  That doesn't seem right!  I guess I have to decide that I don't need them in my collection if it can't handle it.

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, how many Emby libraries have you created, and what folder paths are added to each one?