Matching for shows and TV

[taunnnt0 1]

I know Emby wants as much as Plex. Issues is Plex is still far better. Look at matching. Most of the time Emby will match something from a Asian release. Or just the wrong thing. So how does this match items? It should look by name, episodes number total and last ep title. That would make it correct a lot of the time. For movies I have the title and year. Yet it will still match it to a Asian title not even with the same year. I have to go in identify, then match by imdb code. It's a lot more work for me, yet again. Example the series The Playlist 6 eps. Was matched to Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist not 6 eps.

Also I love how it's been 10 years and still no great actor info. There's still tons missing.  As in all what they've done, future things. Just wiki info. Often I see someone died years ago, but there no death date on Emby. Yet we want the same as Plex.

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Movie Naming TV Naming Music Naming

[Luke 42077]

Hi, how are your files named and organized?

[pwhodges 2012]

Emby's requirements for folder structure and file naming are not the same as Plex's.  While it is possible that some arrangements work properly on both, the simple fact that Plex finds things correctly is not in itself a guarantee that Emby will find the same.  Following Emby's naming instructions (linked above) will lead to results just as good as Plex.

Paul

[taunnnt0 1]

18 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, how are your files named and organized?

For movies they're like this:

title-(year).fileextenson

TV shows

title (maybe year that all depends)/

title-S##E##-ep name-fileextenson

[pwhodges 2012]

And the directory structure? (Note: Emby is happiest using the containing directory name for movie and TV series identification.)

Paul

Edited Friday at 11:23 PM by pwhodges

[taunnnt0 1]

18 hours ago, pwhodges said:

And the directory structure? (Note: Emby is happiest using the containing directory name for movie and TV series identification.)

Paul

It's semi in there. All of what I mentioned uses the root of that directory. Movies have no dir structure, and TV is just how it is above. I know adding folder in folder and so on. Makes any a lot of media apps botch up. So I don't do that.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Emby currently requires all episode be in their parent show folder.   It will not recognize loose episodes in a root folder as it will make the root folder the show folder. 

Dev has mentioned maybe one day but we are not there.  So all shows must have their own folders.

Edited Sunday at 05:45 PM by Happy2Play

[taunnnt0 1]

On 2/14/2026 at 11:21 AM, Happy2Play said:

Emby currently requires all episode be in their parent show folder.   It will not recognize loose episodes in a root folder as it will make the root folder the show folder. 

Dev has mentioned maybe one day but we are not there.  So all shows must have their own folders.

They are in a seperate folder. For each show.It goes Folder/TV Show name/Episodes. I guess this will never be fixed. O joy more work for the user!

[RanmaCanada 494]

23 minutes ago, taunnnt0 said:

They are in a seperate folder. For each show.It goes Folder/TV Show name/Episodes. I guess this will never be fixed. O joy more work for the user!

It's not Emby's fault you refuse to name your files properly. I run both Emby and Plex on the same machine and have 0 issues with Emby finding movies and TV shows, because I name them correctly. Asian stuff can be a little difficult as it depends on your metadata source and if you're using the original untranslated name, or the westernized name. Just use the proper naming conventions as linked above and you should have no issues. And yes I do have a lot of Asian content, not just anime.