Treat Movie NFO files like TV Show NFO files.

[Morgulking75 2]

With a TV show you have three layers of NFO files:

1. Series
2. Season
3. Episode

This works great for my custom collections because I can modify / move / delete / rename any of the seasons and episode files and the show never leaves the custom collections I have. 

With movies, we have only the movie NFO per movie file we have. So if my file is replaced by a different version, my custom collection assignments are wiped out. I suggest having the NFOs be split:

1. Movie 
2. Version

In the Movie NFO, we would have all the basic metadata (Name, release date, description, cast, collections, etc.). In the version we would have pretty much just the run time and stream details. But it would mean that my time spent adding items to custom collections isn't wasted, or won't need to be redone. 

 

[Luke 42228]

HI, yes it does make sense. Thanks for the feedback.

[pünktchen 1410]

7 hours ago, Morgulking75 said:

In the version we would have pretty much just the run time and stream details.

However, Emby does not read this information from an NFO file, but probes the video file for it. If your collection assignment gets broken after replacing the movie file with some other version, then something other is wrong on your end.

[Bottles51 75]

@Morgulking75Question do you have your movies named with quality (ex: 1080p) at the end of file name? If so have you tried renaming your nfo file to the correct quality before Emby re-scans? I often upgrade movies from 1080p to 2160p and a quick rename as I am adding does the trick. Of course you have to delete the old movie file so duplicates are created.

Edited 21 hours ago by Bottles51

[Morgulking75 2]

@Bottles51 I have quality, source, group, encoder on the files. It makes it easier to know when something is better quality. Regardless of what setting I have put for the NFO settings, it gets removed or overwritten. I don't do it manually, I have an *arr help me with management.

I have had an additional thought to all of this: subtitles and images.

We have the ability to group movies by making the items in square brackets, and associated subtitles will also be grouped with the respective video file. But there might be a large collection of subtitles for each different video file.

All images seem to assume a singular video file. But if we change the dropdown, wouldn't it be nice for some of the other images to change as well? To show that the director's cut is different?

While extreme, wouldn't a solution to this to be subfolders similar to how there are seasons in TV shows? Extras are treated as a special season already, why not have subfolders for versions?