Is this still a true statement? "Emby does not read the watched status from .nfo files."

[Embodiment 28]

I was under the impression it did, but after letting it run all night importing my movie and tv libraries, I see none of the series for example are marked as watched. But the nfo files do contain both of the following:

 <playcount>1</playcount>
    <watched>true</watched>

[Luke 42077]

hi, correct, it does not. We used to a long time ago, but this had to be removed. Too many users have other software updating their nfo files, removing the watch state, and thus causing watch state in Emby to be lost. It was a troubleshooting nightmare.

[Embodiment 28]

Thank you for the concise answer. That does mean if one imports their media into Emby as I did, 2,200 movies and 22k tv episodes, if I want to see that the items watched are marked, I have to go to each movie and each episodes / series, and manually mark them in Emby as watched, correct?

Also, another yes or no question. If I mark a media file as watched, does it update the NFO file. I read with the NFO plugin it does. 

[ebr 16169]

51 minutes ago, Embodiment said:

That does mean if one imports their media into Emby as I did, 2,200 movies and 22k tv episodes, if I want to see that the items watched are marked, I have to go to each movie and each episodes / series, and manually mark them in Emby as watched, correct?

Unless you have something like TrakT with that information.  However, you can use multi-select and container-level - meaning mark an entire series or even multiple series at once.

Emby is designed for multiple users so a single watched state for an item is of very limited use.

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, Embodiment said:

Thank you for the concise answer. That does mean if one imports their media into Emby as I did, 2,200 movies and 22k tv episodes, if I want to see that the items watched are marked, I have to go to each movie and each episodes / series, and manually mark them in Emby as watched, correct?

Also, another yes or no question. If I mark a media file as watched, does it update the NFO file. I read with the NFO plugin it does. 

Hi, you asked this same question in another topic and I believe I answered it there, no?

[Embodiment 28]

@LukeI am sure you answered it well. I was just processing this differently in light of what was shared with your initial reply on this thread. 

"Emby is designed for multiple users so a single watched state for an item is of very limited use." This explains the logic. -In our case, my wife does not like what I like to watch so we rarely have a case where it needs to be in an unwatched status once either of us have watched a given media.

[Luke 42077]

Yea that is half of it, although that’s not a big deal because you o of configure which user it maps to. The real problem is the troubleshooting that I mentioned.