Cartoon Shows that are Actually Movies Organization Question

[AVTechMan 9]

I haven't seen much on this but, as we know most cartoons are known based on series, season and individual episodes. However, I have alot of older cartoons, like Looney Tunes, Tex Avery and Droopy in which these were shown as theatrical shorts rather than episodes, so apparently TMDB is best over TVDB for these. 

Would it work to create a separate movie library to put the shorts into? Like for instance I already have a Movie library for feature length films, but now need to create another 'Movie' based library for the cartoon shorts, and would rather put it under Animation I suppose with mixed content so I could have all of the cartoons in one place. 

So something like this:

\Movies\Tex Avery Collection\Bad Luck Blackie (1949).mkv

Emby should be able to scrape this with TMDB and display correctly in the library. I believe alot of the Looney Tunes shorts should be done this was as well rather than forcing a season/episode layout that won't come out correctly. 

The Three Stooges are like this too, though there is a season/episode format with TVDB, they were also originally released as individual movie shorts and should probably be renamed that way similar to the cartoons. 

Does this sound about right? How about those that have done these particular shows? I have alot of LT and Tex cartoons I have yet to rip from my discs because of figuring out the file structure for these. 

Edited 7 hours ago by AVTechMan

[RanmaCanada 573]

2 hours ago, AVTechMan said:

I haven't seen much on this but, as we know most cartoons are known based on series, season and individual episodes. However, I have alot of older cartoons, like Looney Tunes, Tex Avery and Droopy in which these were shown as theatrical shorts rather than episodes, so apparently TMDB is best over TVDB for these. 

Would it work to create a separate movie library to put the shorts into? Like for instance I already have a Movie library for feature length films, but now need to create another 'Movie' based library for the cartoon shorts, and would rather put it under Animation I suppose with mixed content so I could have all of the cartoons in one place. 

So something like this:

\Movies\Tex Avery Collection\Bad Luck Blackie (1949).mkv

Emby should be able to scrape this with TMDB and display correctly in the library. I believe alot of the Looney Tunes shorts should be done this was as well rather than forcing a season/episode layout that won't come out correctly. 

The Three Stooges are like this too, though there is a season/episode format with TVDB, they were also originally released as individual movie shorts and should probably be renamed that way similar to the cartoons. 

Does this sound about right? How about those that have done these particular shows? I have alot of LT and Tex cartoons I have yet to rip from my discs because of figuring out the file structure for these. 

It depends on where you want to put them, as they could be in both movies or TV series. Pretty sure the Tex Avery are under MGM for TV series https://thetvdb.com/series/mgm-cartoons MGM Cartoons {tvdb-241901}. Looney Tunes https://thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes Looney Tunes {tvdb-72514] The layout is done by year and episode as they were released as shorts by year. You'd want to use tools like Rename my TV Series and make sure that the content is right. I tried to have Looney Tunes in Movies and it just made a mess of things and caused a LOT of headaches for myself. It's far easier to have them in TV series in my experience. I only have the actual movies in the movies directory now, but they are also copied in the tv series because of OCD for completion, eg Looney Tunes - 1936x06 - Alpine Antics

I personally have the Tex Avery in TV series library. using your file as an example this is the path I have TV\MGM Cartoons {tvdb-241901}\MGM Cartoons - 1949x02 - Bad Luck Blackie

I did the same with Disney Shorts.

Hope this helps.

Edited 4 hours ago by RanmaCanada

[pwhodges 2083]

You could use a mixed content library to show the series and movie type shows together.  For that to work you need to be strict about the folder structure you use (separate folder for each movie, season folders for every series, even those with only one season).  Because Emby looks them up differently according to the folder structure, the settings can use TVDB for shows and TMDB for movies, even in the one library.

Paul