Changing naming scheme of media folders

[anym001 0]

Hey,

I would like to change the naming scheme of my media folders, but I'm not sure if this will affect my current libraries or the library scan.

Has anyone ever tried this?
Can problems occur here?

Example:

• Old -> Name (Year) imdbid
• New -> Name (Year) [tmdbid=xxxx]

[Abobader 3464]

Hello anym001,

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[Happy2Play 9780]

Any change in naming will remove the item from the DB and Readd it, but yes the new scheme you showed is a supported naming scheme and Emby will use the id for its metadata queries.

#id-tags-in-folder--file-names | Emby Documentation

 

[anym001 0]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Any change in naming will remove the item from the DB and Readd it, but yes the new scheme you showed is a supported naming scheme and Emby will use the id for its metadata queries.

#id-tags-in-folder--file-names | Emby Documentation

 

Do I understand correctly that the played state will not be adopted?

[GrimReaper 4740]

Just now, anym001 said:

Do I understand correctly that the played state will not be adopted?

It will be retained, items are tracked by ProviderIDs.

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, anym001 said:

Do I understand correctly that the played state will not be adopted?

From nfo file no but Emby tracks them by providerid so all items with a providerid will maintain their watched status.

[anym001 0]

I have another question about the metadata providers.

Is it still up to date that tmdb is recommended as a provider for both movies and tv shows? (https://www.themoviedb.org/)

Corresponding articles:

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

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

 

 

 

[Luke 42078]

14 minutes ago, anym001 said:

I have another question about the metadata providers.

Is it still up to date that tmdb is recommended as a provider for both movies and tv shows? (https://www.themoviedb.org/)

Corresponding articles:

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

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

 

 

 

The defaults are Tmdb for movies and Tvdb for TV.