Global Missing Episodes

[HTanner 4]

First, I want to say how happy I am with Emby. I have a large video library with lots of TV shows and movies, and Emby does a great job of providing access to it. Most of my family and friends that use it are newbs, and they find the interface easy to understand and use. And the lifetime premiere license was very reasonable. So thank you.

I know the Missing Episodes feature was changed a while ago. It now requires I go into each show to look for missing episodes. As previously noted, I have a large TV library and this is problematic as there are just too many shows to review. The upcoming episodes view is helpful, but it would be more helpful to tweak that view and just show the missing episodes (in a different tab, or a switch on the existing tab). It seems simple enough, because you already know which episodes are coming up, and you also know which episodes are in the library. The upcoming tab is slow anyway, and checking whether that episode is in the library should not add any significant time to the view.

[GrimReaper 4819]

Metadata manager>Views>Missing Episodes

[HTanner 4]

LOL. I was looking for this, and looking for this, and I couldn't find it. Thank you so much for pointing it out!

[HTanner 4]

I've been adding the missing episodes (thanks again, @GrimReaper) and most of the episodes are being loaded into Emby just fine. I'm having a problem, though, with one episode. It's Marvel's Luke Cage S02E01 (although that probably doesn't matter). Emby says that episode is missing, yet the file exists in Windows. I can play this episode just fine in Windows, but it's not in Emby. I've deleted all the nfo and jpg files from the show and refreshed the metadata. I've also rescanned the library files. The nfo for that episode is now created, but Emby still isn't showing the episode, and no jpg is created for that episode. I'm not sure what to do.

Edited Sunday at 06:40 PM by HTanner

[GrimReaper 4819]

How is that episode named? You can also attach its NFO here.

[HTanner 4]

The episode is named "Marvel`s Luke Cage (2016) - S02E01 - Soul Brother 1.mkv". The nfo is here"Marvel`s Luke Cage (2016) - S02E01 - Soul Brother 1.nfo

[GrimReaper 4819]

It has been merged under Luke Cage S01E01.

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<title>Moment of Truth</title>
<sorttitle>Moment of Truth</sorttitle>
<imdbid>tt4179626</imdbid>
<tvdbid>5545823</tvdbid>
<uniqueid type="tvdb">5545823</uniqueid>
<uniqueid type="imdb">tt4179626</uniqueid>
<episode>1</episode>
<season>1</season>

If yo go to S01E01 episode details view, you'll see a Version dropdown with both of those episodes. If you scroll further down, you should see "Split Versions apart" button and both episodes details/paths.  

[HTanner 4]

Thank you. When I get home I'll check out.

[HTanner 4]

As you said, I saw S01E01 had an option to "split episodes" So I did that. Now I have 2 S01E01's, with S02E01 being misidentified as S01E01. I deleted the nfo and refreshed the metadata, but I still have 2 S01E01's.

[GrimReaper 4819]

Not knowing your setup, wild guess would be that something in your filefolder naming/structure (an any level) is throwing parser off. Since it's a single episode only, you can edit metadata manually, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes for that. Or if you're really keen on troubleshooting/automating it, post your complete structure here so maybe something can be glimpsed.

[HTanner 4]

I edited the metadata manually, fixing all the text, the season, and the Netflix and TVDB id's. Now it shows up as S02E01. I suppose this is ok until I refresh the metadata on Luke Cage. Any idea why only this one episode is being misidentified?

Edited Sunday at 10:26 PM by HTanner

[GrimReaper 4819]

3 minutes ago, HTanner said:

I edited the metadata manually, fixing all the text, the season, and the Netflix and TVDB id's. Now it shows up as S02E01. I suppose this is ok until I refresh the metadata on Luke Cage.

You can lock that item (or particular fields individually) to prevent any future changes.

Edited Sunday at 10:29 PM by GrimReaper
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[HTanner 4]

I saw that when I was editing the metadata. I wasn't sure why it would be needed. Now I understand. Thanks again!

[HTanner 4]

FYI, I found a second episode that was misidentified - this episode is named "The Magicians (2015) - S02E13 - We Have Brought You Little Cakes" - it was identified as S03E13. I was able to fix it by manually editing the nfo, like I did with Luke Cage. FYI I have 948 TV shows in my library and 19,203 episodes, and these are the only 2 episodes that were misidentified. I wish I could understand why they were misidentified by Emby so I could prevent this from happening again. This episode, like the misidentified episode in Luke Cage, is named like all the other episodes in the show, and none of the other episodes have this problem. For the past 5 years, they're all named as "Show Title (year) - SxxExx - Episode Title". Older shows have episodes named only as "SxxExx", but I've been slowly renaming them to this new format. Both Luke Cage and The Magicians are named using this newer format.

[visproduction 324]

HT,

I avoid using so many dashes and I think I never have your issue.  Dashes are used inside EMBY to break apart name from subtitles to make subtitles drop down lists not repeat the title.  Emby is already using dashes to change titles around.  I believe dashes can throw off comparing your title against the imdb or other online list of episodes that don't have dashes.  I think that is where your title confuses the online search code that can't handle the dashes.

I use names like this:
The Magicians S02E13 We Have Brought You Little Cakes (2015) - 1080P

Online database matching can run into all sorts of issues if you don't use the exact format recommended.  Think about this.  How can a new online search code be tested against 10,000 possible name variations that people come up with?  It can't.  It works if you have the exact title they ask for.

Hope that helps.

Edited yesterday at 06:23 PM by visproduction

[Neminem 1580]

Exactly how is you folder naming, season and episode naming?

Here is how I do it, and that only fails on edge cases, like "#1 HAPPY FAMILY USA"

Folder : Ash vs Evil Dead (2015) [TvdbId=296295]

Season : Season 01 etc.

Episode : Ash vs Evil Dead - S01E01 - El Jefe [Bluray-1080p].mkv

[HTanner 4]

Guys, thanks for your suggestions, but if my naming convention was a problem, I'd have many more misidentifications. And the two errors were a single episode in 2 different shows. And this is out of many thousands of episodes in almost a thousand shows. So I truly doubt my naming convention is causing problems for Emby.

[visproduction 324]

11 minutes ago, HTanner said:

Guys, thanks for your suggestions, but if my naming convention was a problem, I'd have many more misidentifications. And the two errors were a single episode in 2 different shows. And this is out of many thousands of episodes in almost a thousand shows. So I truly doubt my naming convention is causing problems for Emby.

A logical point.  Try renmaming the problem ones with the two suggestions above and see if that works.  Another issue I've seen is that with Apple iOS hardware you can add a "forced space" different quotations single and double and a few other odd characters that look normal, but won't match in an online search. Sometimes typing a title out on a MacOS keyboard gets one of these odd characters.

[HTanner 4]

28 minutes ago, visproduction said:

A logical point.  Try renmaming the problem ones with the two suggestions above and see if that works.  Another issue I've seen is that with Apple iOS hardware you can add a "forced space" different quotations single and double and a few other odd characters that look normal, but won't match in an online search. Sometimes typing a title out on a MacOS keyboard gets one of these odd characters.

My Emby server is running on Windows, and I get all my content and do all my naming, on Windows too. I use automation to do all this work, so if I screwed up making my templates, then all those episodes would have a problem too. Another good guess, but no sale.

As I said above, I've fixed the nfo's for these 2 episodes manually, and I prevented changes as suggested by @GrimReaper. So those episodes won't get messed up again if I reload the metadata for those shows for any reason. So it's all fixed now.

Edited 1 hour ago by HTanner