Whats the best way to Display an YouTube Archive?

[Shiniri 0]

Hi there I recently switched from PLEX to Emby and from Windows Server to PROXMOX with a VM of Ubuntu Live Server 24.

I have 3 Drives lets call them X,  Y,  Z. those are mapped like:
/mnt/x:/mnt/x; /mnt/y:/mnt/y; /mnt/z:/mnt/z; 

 

They do all follow the same Path Structure like /mnt/x/videos/youtube-archive/YouTubeChannel/All Videos/ YouTubeChannel - S01 Exxxx [Video-ID] - /mnt/y/videos/youtube-archive/YouTubeChannel/All Videos/ YouTubeChannel - S01 Exxxx [Video-ID].

 

In Emby I added both dirs into a TV Lib, disabled metadata Grabber besides Image Capture and NFOs (while also enabling the creation of NFOs and Pictures).

My Files are all MP4s with Embedded Metadata as well. Such as Title, Description and Thumbnail.

How do I force merging the "Channels" (Shows) ? Giving them a random ID from a MetaDB  doesnt seem to merge them, unless I enable the MetaDB (which is a hit or miss) and at that point Emby ignores the setting to prefere local Metadata or the embedded title over Filenames. Hence my Archive is auto updating itself daily it would be a hustle to turn the settings on and off again and again.

 

So any Idea how to do it the best way for the given situation?
- Auto updates daily

- Partially whole Channels

- Different Playlists from one Channel which should be listed as another Season under the Same Show (Channel)

- Embedded Metadata

- Same Pathing on multiple Drives

[Luke 42077]

Hi, show merging happens based on tvdb id of the series, so you'd have to give it some kind of fake value in order to force that.

[Shiniri 0]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, show merging happens based on tvdb id of the series, so you'd have to give it some kind of fake value in order to force that.

Oh so basically some ID that isnt used with any real entry they have and keep the metadata Agent active in Emby und the Show unlocked to gather new embedded metadata down the road?

[Luke 42077]

52 minutes ago, Shiniri said:

Oh so basically some ID that isnt used with any real entry they have and keep the metadata Agent active in Emby und the Show unlocked to gather new embedded metadata down the road?

Well let me just say that this is an uncommon situation, and therefore, there's bound to be some quirks with it. But yes, in theory that sounds right, but I don't know if you're going to run into some undesirable things that might happen.

Obviously it would be nice if we had other criteria to merge upon, that way you could avoid the need for a fake tvdb id, but currently that does not exist.