DMazer 7 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 Greetings.... I searched the forums and didn't see anything pertaining to this, so apologies in advance if it is somewhere and I didn't see it. Occasionally a movie/video, added to my library, doesn't scrap the provided .NFO included in the same directory. I do have it set correctly in the setting as, I would say 98% of them work correctly. There is a "Edit Metadata" to manually enter all the information and a "Refresh Metadata" that will scrap from the internet update what it finds, ignoring my included .nfo. Some video's like personal ones or Theater performances which don't have data to be scrapped. This is why I used TinyMediaManager (TMM) to create a .nfo for everything, to ensure it has all the data I want included in the library. FEATURE REQUEST: I there a possibility to get an option on the movie EDIT dropdown called "Reload NFO" to force it to read and import the .nfo provided in the same folder as the video file? Thank you for considering this request.
GrimReaper 4739 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 18 minutes ago, DMazer said: Occasionally a movie/video, added to my library, doesn't scrap the provided .NFO included in the same directory. I do have it set correctly in the setting as, I would say 98% of them work correctly. It should actually work 100% correctly, so I reckon it's better to focus on particular examples and figure out why they aren't imported properly.
DMazer 7 Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 (edited) 6 minutes ago, GrimReaper said: It should actually work 100% correctly, so I reckon it's better to focus on particular examples and figure out why they aren't imported properly. I have two version of the same "Wicked" theater show two different years. 2013 and 2014. The .NFO's are identical except the title that includes the year "Wicked (2013)" and "Wicked (2014)", the cast and a few other minor things. Both made with TMM. The 2014 one imported correctly, the 2013 one does not. I have even deleted the 2013 version several times, cleaned the database and re-added it. I am not sure if it's because they are to similar, which is why I named them the way I did. Either way, the only fix, I have found is I had to manually input all the data in the "Edit Metadata" section. It holds once I do that. But, I don't want to have to do that for everything added that doesn't come across. Edited February 2 by DMazer
GrimReaper 4739 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 6 minutes ago, DMazer said: Both made with TMM. Scraped from where - which scraper you used? Could you also attach NFOs for those two movies?
ebr 16169 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 [moved to general section] 12 hours ago, DMazer said: called "Reload NFO" to force it to read and import the .nfo provided in the same folder as the video file? We already prioritize local metadata.
DMazer 7 Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 6 hours ago, ebr said: [moved to general section] We already prioritize local metadata. I have tried several times without success. EMBY automatically scraps and selects "The Wicked Uncle" 2011 and does not use the .NFO in the "Wicked (2013) directory. I have seen this most often when I try to import personal, theatre performance or multipart related videos, and the very rare movie .nfo. 18 hours ago, GrimReaper said: Scraped from where - which scraper you used? Could you also attach NFOs for those two movies? Attached are the two Wicked .NFO files... if I am doing something wrong, I would greatly appreciate guidance... Wicked (2014) 480p.nfo Wicked (2013) 720p.nfo
GrimReaper 4739 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, DMazer said: Attached are the two Wicked .NFO files... if I am doing something wrong, I would greatly appreciate guidance... Your issue is that both of your items have same - wrong - external IDs: Wicked (2013) NFO: Quote <uniqueid default="false" type="tmdb">402431</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="true" type="imdb">tt1262426</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tvdb">136493</uniqueid> Wicked (2014) NFO: Quote <uniqueid default="false" type="tmdb">402431</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="true" type="imdb">tt1262426</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tvdb">136493</uniqueid> All those IDs point to another item, Wicked (2024) movie, as neither of those theater shows exist on TMDB/IMDB/TVDB. In any case, that 2013 version is not being not shown/imported - it has just been multi-versioned with another item carrying same ExternalID. What you should do is change those ExternalIDs to some different, provisional, non-existent IDs so they cannot be matched to any existing items with online provoders - hence they can be tracked separately. Edited February 2 by GrimReaper
DMazer 7 Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 (edited) 32 minutes ago, GrimReaper said: Your issue is that both of your items have same - wrong - external IDs: Wicked (2013) NFO: Wicked (2014) NFO: All those IDs point to another item, Wicked (2024) movie, as neither of those theater shows exist on TMDB/IMDB/TVDB. In any case, that 2013 version is not being not shown/imported - it has just been multi-versioned with another item carrying same ExternalID. What you should do is change those ExternalIDs to some different, provisional, non-existent IDs so they cannot be matched to any existing items with online provoders - hence they can be tracked separately. I didn't even catch that. Thank you for catching it. It must have been something TinyMediaManager added when I created them. I will remove all the bad IDs. Thank you !! Edited February 2 by DMazer
DMazer 7 Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 I removed all the ID's from both Wicked 2013/2014 versions. Removed both from my library, Set emby to vacuum the database on restart. Shutdown and relaunched Emby. Re-added both the 2013 and 2014 versions and Emby again treats the 2013 version as in the image above "The Wicked Uncle" While I was messing with this one, I noticed that another theater play "Nation Theatre Live Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch) (2011)" and "Nation Theatre Live Frankenstein (Johnny Lee Miller) (2011)" are now combined vs two separate plays. Not sure when this happened, but it used to display as two different ones. While they are technically the same play, with the same IMDB/MOVIEDB codes they are different and should not be combined. I named them (as shown above) so they would not combine. Is having the same ID's causing an auto combine? I Thought combining of videos only occurred when they are in the same folder. Emby for some reason is doing its own thing here. In the case of "Frankenstein" they displayed correctly for some time, and at some point (I assume after an update), something cause it to change. Unfortunately, things like this are not discovered unless you're looking at it, especially if you have a large library. I Hadn't looked at this folder since I last uploaded a theatre play, which was sometime last year, until now with Wicked. Anyway, thanks for all the assistance.
Luke 42077 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 How have you configured automatic grouping in your library options? 1
DMazer 7 Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 On 2/2/2026 at 8:31 PM, Luke said: How have you configured automatic grouping in your library options? Hi Luke, This is the only setting I could find relating to grouping... Yes I have it set to automatically group "Parts". It was working great until recently. So not sure why its grouping movies in different named folders. It was my understanding that to be grouped the files had to be in the same movie folder and have " - Part 1" and so on in the title. This is how I have done all my multi-part movies.
Luke 42077 Posted February 7 Posted February 7 And what about the other automatic grouping options? 1
DMazer 7 Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 21 hours ago, Luke said: And what about the other automatic grouping options? Hi Luke, I don't know of any other settings. As I noted in the previous post. Can you screen shot and send me the other locations and I can check them. But I just went through all the setup screens and didn't see anything else pertaining to automatic grouping? Thanks again in advance for working with me on this.
Luke 42077 Posted February 8 Posted February 8 2 hours ago, DMazer said: Hi Luke, I don't know of any other settings. As I noted in the previous post. Can you screen shot and send me the other locations and I can check them. But I just went through all the setup screens and didn't see anything else pertaining to automatic grouping? Thanks again in advance for working with me on this. Hi, it's right underneath the multi-part item option. It is the multi-version option. 1
DMazer 7 Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 (edited) 21 hours ago, DMazer said: Hi Luke, I don't know of any other settings. As I noted in the previous post. Can you screen shot and send me the other locations and I can check them. But I just went through all the setup screens and didn't see anything else pertaining to automatic grouping? Thanks again in advance for working with me on this. 19 hours ago, Luke said: Hi, it's right underneath the multi-part item option. It is the multi-version option. Hi Luke, Oh, I just checked.... I never changed this one, so wasn't sure exactly what it did. Should this one be ... "Detect Multi-version items based on files" ... If I change it in all my libraries, during a new scan, will it fix those that have been combined... or do I need to go through the library and remove and re-add the affected videos? Edited February 8 by DMazer
Luke 42077 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Quote "Detect Multi-version items based on files" ... It sounds like it, but that's up to you. Once you change it just run a library scan. 1
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