gogginguy 4 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Emby Linux 4.9.3.0. Here are two screenshots. Before scanning for new media and after. There should be a way of disabling metadata (poster) changes at the library level for already identified movies. (and "Lock this item..." doesn't stop it either.) This undoes a LOT of time manually changing these posters. Thanks in advance.
gogginguy 4 Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 So, I created a backup to "reset" this issue and troubleshoot it. Another library having the same issue. It has Primary posters, but "The Beast From 20000 Fathoms" (as with MANY others as you see) doesn't show an image when "Edit images" is shown. Next to it, "The Black Cat" does have an image. Thus, when Scanning, it removes the Primary, with nothing to replace it. I disabled "Primary" on the Fetch Metadata (screenshot), but it insists on removing the Primary that is there, anyway.
ebr 16169 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Hi. It appears it has an image but it is not loading for some reason: Can you please post the server log from the refresh?
Luke 42077 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred: How to Report a Problem Thanks!
gogginguy 4 Posted January 26 Author Posted January 26 My apologies -- it is not feasible to attach the embyserver log(s) as there are many logs during that time which have no more than 0.1MB. I will attach a couple. embyserver-63904809600.txt embyserver-63904806461.txt
Luke 42077 Posted January 27 Posted January 27 HI, did you tamper with the contents of the server metadata folder? It looks a file that used to be there is gone; 2026-01-23 23:02:26.955 Info HttpClient: GET https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/tsCiJ9tI1EpQF9oh3AlgOqnXmaS.png 2026-01-23 23:02:26.955 Error ImageService-0HNIQQDIG7TP8:0000001B: Error processing request *** Error Report *** Version: 4.9.3.0 Command line: /system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /config -ffdetect /bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 Operating system: Linux version 6.12.0-124.21.1.el10_1.x86_64 (mockbuild@iad1-prod-build001.bld.equ.rockylinux.org) (gcc (GCC) 14.3.1 20250617 (Red Hat 14.3.1-2), GNU l OS/Process: x64/x64 Framework: .NET 8.0.22 Runtime: system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 20 Data path: /config Application path: /system System.IO.FileNotFoundException: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file '/config/metadata/library/28/285aba1687899960526c977248cbd54a/poster.jpg'.
gogginguy 4 Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 I did not. At least not by intention. The installation had to move to a new server and it was installed as a new instance then restored from full backup. The new library content locations were added, scans completed and the old content locations removed. There was one library which mistakenly did not get the final folder location and pulled in everything from the parent folder. I went methodically through each library in turn to correct any issues in identity or images. What puzzled me was that when executing a scan from the library level it triggered a scan for ALL libraries. This was unexpected. Is this by design?
Luke 42077 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Quote The new library content locations were added, scans completed and the old content locations removed. Hi, if you restored from a backup, then why did you have to do this?
gogginguy 4 Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 Restore from backup on the new system was the first step. Drive locations had all changed and needed to be updated (as mentioned above) One limitation of the Emby server design is that it insists on "looking" for different poster images, etc. when not asked to do so. And when paths change, but the content organization in the final directory is the same, metadata is unnecessarily updated.
Luke 42077 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Hi, it depends. If you enable metadata on the library then it will try to add new information using the metadata providers. It won’t change your existing metadata.
JeffJ0 1 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Hello @Luke, Running Emby 4.9.3.0 (also tried, 4.10.0.1 beta) on Linux, I noticed that the metadata behavior and folder view settings have changed in a negative directions compared to previous releases. 1. In my Home Photo/Videos library I have multi-level folders e.g. Videos>2025>01-Jan..12-Dec. I can see the folder thumbnails for 01-Jan to 12-Dec based on the first video inside those folders. However, the top level folder 2025 does not show any thumbnails. This was not the case in the past. It makes video navigation harder and overall an 'incomplete' look to my library. Attached images show this behaviour. 2. In the previous versions I could set the default content view to folder so that when clients opened the Videos tab for example, the folder view was greeted. Now I don't see an option to set this, always see individual videos first. I read in the 4.9.3.0 release notes a comment about 'Add library option to use legacy folder scanning method' but could not find it anywhere. Can you please allow an option or a workaround (with out having to manually add a posted/image to each top level folder) to have the previous functionality? Regards, JJ
Luke 42077 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Quote 2. In the previous versions I could set the default content view to folder so that when clients opened the Videos tab for example, the folder view was greeted. Now I don't see an option to set this, always see individual videos first. Hi, can you please explain more of what you mean by this? The videos tab is not folder based, right?
yocker 1247 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Maybe related so i will add this. Settings this still resets chapter info so for example intro skip chapters gets removed. 1
JeffJ0 1 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 7 hours ago, Luke said: Hi, can you please explain more of what you mean by this? The videos tab is not folder based, right? I have two libraries called Photo, Videos.. Inside these libraries everything is stored in folders>sub folders. Already the video subfolders won't show thumbnails. But Also when I open the Video library, the default view is individual items not Folders. I have to manually select View as folders each time. The most pressing issue for me is the redaction of previous functionality i.e. folder thumbnails. Regards, JJ
Luke 42077 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Quote But Also when I open the Video library, the default view is individual items not Folders. Hi, can't you use your emby user home screen settings to set the default tab?
JeffJ0 1 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Yes you're right, I got default folder view now!, Apologies..I was checking in the Emby Web Settings, I realise it's user setting. That just leaves the folder metadata as the only bad apple. 1
curation 0 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Are there universal control options for metadata? For example, something similar to the Refresh Metadata window menu when selecting the three dots of a "Media Title". The menu reads "Refresh mode": Replace all metadata or Search for missing metadata? Looking for an option to confirm keep existing metadata "as is" and add missing metadata.
Luke 42077 Posted February 4 Posted February 4 5 hours ago, curation said: Are there universal control options for metadata? For example, something similar to the Refresh Metadata window menu when selecting the three dots of a "Media Title". The menu reads "Refresh mode": Replace all metadata or Search for missing metadata? Looking for an option to confirm keep existing metadata "as is" and add missing metadata. Hi, that’s what search for missing metadata does.
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