Featurettes, Extras Always Top Level with Two (or more) versions of a Show

[millerajm 4]

Hi I'm having this issue also, it appears to have started recently (last week?), even though I haven't updated emby in a while (4.9.5.0), not sure if that's possible.

The issue has appeared on a film with 14 separate versions (a choose your own adventure film).

Naming follows the recommended convention "movie (year) - [Start_Here].mkv", and the extras are under their own directory Is there a change in logic happening when a file has many versions?

[Luke 42978]

@millerajm

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[millerajm 4]

Here is the folder contents:

And the contents of "extras":

 

This has been in my library since 2023 with no issue, but when I added some movies and rescanned yesterday, I now have no extras on the film, and they show in the main Movies listing instead:

[millerajm 4]

Acutally, the nfo files were updated in July, so it's possible that it happened after I installed 4.9.5.0, and I just didn't notice until now, I'm not sure.

[Luke 42978]

Are the versions actually grouped together?

[millerajm 4]

Yes, the versions are being grouped together correctly, but I did notice on closer inspection that there were some slight differences in their metadata (one I had edited and locked, and maybe the others had refreshed from another source since then?)

I've tried a couple things now: First I deleted the .nfo files and rescanned, it didn't change anything.

In order to ensure that all versions were being treated the same and the different metadata wasn't somehow causing it to look for multiple movies in this folder, I deleted the whole folder from my collection, scanned library files, verified it was gone from my library, and then copied the whole folder (with no nfo files or images back into my collection, and rescanned library files.

After doing this, all versions look identical, and group correctly, but even on this totally fresh add to the library, it has put the extras as their own films.

I then tried the above process again, re-adding the folder to the library fresh, but this time I removed " - 1080p" from the filenames of the extras, in case that was somehow an issue. This had the exact same result, the movie versions are together nicely, but the extras are their own movies.

[Luke 42978]

I wonder if the brackets are causing an issue. Can you test by whipping up a second folder that doesn’t have the brackets?

[millerajm 4]

I will try that now and report back. I have brackets on all my other multiversion movies with no issue, see this example showing the brackets around the version name, and still the extras are treated correctly:

[millerajm 4]

Okay, I tried it with the brackets still, but only put two versions, and it seems to be identifying everything as I would like, extras are shown as extras, as shown below.

I think my suspicion is correct, that when you get over some number of versions, it is changing its logic to assume you're being silly and not following the suggested formatting, and it begins looking for many movies within the folder. I will add some versions and keep rescanning and see if I can get them all in without the extras being caught as their own movies.

[millerajm 4]

Adding parts one by one and rescanning, I was able to get to 8. When I added the 9th and rescanned, it split the extras again.

Edit: I now also tried removing one "version", and rescanned, and the extras are no longer seen as movies. Adding the version again, they go back to being movies, so it is changing on only a "Scan Library Files".

I will try to lock all the metadata of the extras, and then add the versions and see if that can get me where I want to be.

Hopefully this is helpful info, it worked when I first added this movie in '23, so I'm fairly certain this is a newer feature, probably intended to treat folders full of movies in a smarter way, but that's a little problematic when it interprets correctly structured folders incorrectly.

Edited 17 minutes ago by millerajm

[millerajm 4]

Unfortunately, even when locking the extras metadata, and then adding the 9th version, it again identifies them as their own movies. This does at least prevent the extras from suddenly misidentifying as whatever imdb entry their names resemble, so the lock is working, it's just there is no way to edit the metadata to indicate that this item is an extra and not a movie as far as I know.

[Luke 42978]

21 minutes ago, millerajm said:

Okay, I tried it with the brackets still, but only put two versions, and it seems to be identifying everything as I would like, extras are shown as extras, as shown below.

I think my suspicion is correct, that when you get over some number of versions, it is changing its logic to assume you're being silly and not following the suggested formatting, and it begins looking for many movies within the folder. I will add some versions and keep rescanning and see if I can get them all in without the extras being caught as their own movies.

Yes I think you’re probably right.