How to make that happen in emby

[nodiaque 62]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to put my collection training video I ripped from my dvd onto emby. My goal is to do as follow.

Have a library called Workout, this is the easy part.

Workout
|
|- The Amazing Project
| - - The normal plan
| - - - Week 1
|- - - -  Day 1.mkv
|- - - -  Day 2.mkv
...
| - - - Week 2
|.....
| - - The Intense Plan
| - - - Week 1
| - - - - Day 1.mkv
...
| - The other Project
.....

My folder are already structured like that, but when I import into emby, I can only see when I go into the folder view. I don't really mind but I would like to be able to put metadata like description and tags on these folder like if they were tv shows. I tried putting the library as tv shows but it doesn't seems to like it. 

So in short, it's like if "The Amazing Project" was a tv show, then each "plan" is a season. But inside each plan, there's multiple week. I could, worst case, remove the week 1, week 2 folder and name the files week 1 day 1, but I still can't create any metadata for the "season/plan" folder and the root folder "The Amazing Project".

Thank you

[Luke 42078]

Hi, what folder did you add to Emby library setup? What content type did you setup the library with?

[nodiaque 62]

Hello, I added the root folder called "workout", so the first level is "The Amazing Project", much like I would do with any other library. I tried TV Shows, Mixed Content and Home Video. Problem is they don't show in the show view, only in the folder view so it's probably why it doesn't allow me to put metadata.

[Luke 42078]

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

[nodiaque 62]

I have maybe 6 or 7 library, each with one path in it. They all appear in their own channel like it's suppose to.

But, I think we are going to far. All I want is to know how to have metadata for each folder. 

The library I created for my workout doesn't fetch any metadata online since it doesn't exist either on tvdb or imdb. I don't want to put flat all workout on the root folder, this would mix different type of workout. I'm trying to regroup them like I showed and since there's no metadata, they only appear in the folder view of the livrary, which only allow me to put metadata (description, tags, etc) in the video file directly, not any of the folder.

 

edit: I'm going to create the metadata myself, just that the gui doesn't allow me so I'm wondering how to create the library (specific type?) and if I need to create nfo file cause the gui won't, how and what name does it need to be. I remember in the past, I had stuff like folder.xml but this doesn't seems to exist anymore (back when it was media browser for mc)

Edited January 16, 2025 by nodiaque

[Luke 42078]

32 minutes ago, nodiaque said:

I have maybe 6 or 7 library, each with one path in it. They all appear in their own channel like it's suppose to.

But, I think we are going to far. All I want is to know how to have metadata for each folder. 

Hi, we are not going too far. Can you please supply this information? Thanks !

[nodiaque 62]

all path for each library are /mnt/user/lib1, /mnt/user/lib2, etc.... There's no overlap and all start at the same path. I have 8 library counting that new one

[Luke 42078]

Can you please list them all out? Thanks !

[nodiaque 62]

/mnt/user/Movies

/mnt/user/TV

/mnt/user/Music

/mnt/user/Workout

/mnt/user/Spectacles

/mnt/user/Anime

/mnt/user/Anime2

/mnt/user/Videos

 

[nodiaque 62]

So with that being said. How do I make it so metadata can be added to each folder? Must I use a specific library type and create a special nfo file?

[Luke 42078]

10 minutes ago, nodiaque said:

So with that being said. How do I make it so metadata can be added to each folder? Must I use a specific library type and create a special nfo file?

Hi, you simply enable nfo saving and/or saving images to media folders for each library that you want it for, making sure to read the help text at the top of the library options dialog when making changes.

[Luke 42078]

My best guess about why this is not displaying as a TV series is likely due to not following TV naming conventions:

TV Naming

My suggestion is to either rename your files, or use the home videos content type.

[nodiaque 62]

I did try home video. The problem is the GUI don't let me edit the metadata.

If I stay in the videos view, they are all not grouped in folder. I see all videos mixed ordered by name, since I have over 800 videos in the end, this is not good.

 

When I go into folder view, then I click into my first folder and select edit metadata, there's no description field

That's what I'm trying to do, have description there

Edited January 17, 2025 by nodiaque

[Luke 42078]

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When I go into folder view, then I click into my first folder and select edit metadata, there's no description field

because you are trying to edit a folder, not an actual video. Try drilling down one more level.

[Luke 42078]

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f I stay in the videos view, they are all not grouped in folder. I see all videos mixed ordered by name, since I have over 800 videos, this is not good.

Right I understand, but there's no free lunch. If you want to use the TV content type, then you will need to reorganize and rename files so that these look like TV series.

Alternative option is to use home videos and browse using folder view.

[nodiaque 62]

ok, and since it's folder view, there's no way to have metadata in folder view?

[nodiaque 62]

In the good old media browser era, I was able to create folder.nfo and put the metadata in it. Could I do something like that? If I manually create each nfo file, it should be read? Would that "bypass" the naming convention if there's already an nfo file?

IS there a way to group in home videos instead of having all of them in one place (outside the folder view)?

[Luke 42078]

What do you mean exactly?

[Luke 42078]

Just now, nodiaque said:

In the good old media browser era, I was able to create folder.nfo and put the metadata in it. Could I do something like that? If I manually create each nfo file, it should be read? Would that "bypass" the naming convention if there's already an nfo file?

IS there a way to group in home videos instead of having all of them in one place (outside the folder view)?

Yes you can do that, but you do it for the video, not the parent folder.

[nodiaque 62]

yeah ok, I already do it for the video. I needed it for the folder since it's the folder that will tell me the name of the workout and everything that goes with that workout plan... I'll have to find another way it seems. In the end, I'd need a 3-layer tv-show naming convention for it to work properly. I could rename week 1 to season 1, week 2 to season 2 and just have metadata show it as week. The workout themself are the episode in each week. Each workout plan could be a tv show. But the problem is the current root folder which is the team that did that workout plan. I guess my other choice would be to create a library per workout group instead of 1 library named workouts.

Edited January 17, 2025 by nodiaque