Are large casts problematic?

[podonnell 51]

Hi,

Just had some media added to Emby that has an exorbitant amount of people listed under cast. 750+ were added to one item.

My Emby server also got hung around this time.

I'm worried that future metadata refreshes might also be a problem with this. I imagine adding that many to the DB at once could have choked the I/O.

Once they're in the database, should I care about this? Or is it worthwhile for me to edit metadata and lock the item? Would this actually clean up the db, or would the people added still exist there?

Thanks for any advice.

[tedfroop21 102]

Every movie, TV show, and actor is an item to lookup.  So 750 actors is like 750 movies when it comes to lookup.

They are each a separate item for which Emby needs data and a picture, and for some no data exists. Plus there are limits for the number of lookup's in a day from some providers.

Once they are in the database they are in the database. Emby can use one instance of the actor data for many shows.

When you dump that many on it it may slowdown for a while. 

 

Edited 30 minutes ago by tedfroop21