bm-uk 1 Posted October 12 Posted October 12 (edited) Currently running Version 4.11.0.6 beta as a App in Home Assistant for a couple of years and it has been working really well. My media is organized via scripts that do various lookups against TMDB and TVDB to validate the IDs of shows and Movies and these numbers are embedded in the directory and file names. The library is large and I have created single character folders under the series and movies folders to reduce the number of subfolders. For example, for series they are like this. There are no season subfolders. The script replace any non usable character with underscores, so ' or ? get swapped to a _. Series A Abraham Lincoln [tvdbid=416399] Abraham Lincoln [tvdbid=416399] - S01E01 - iptv.strm Abraham Lincoln [tvdbid=416399] - S01E02 - iptv.strm Abraham Lincoln [tvdbid=416399] - S01E03 - iptv.strm Absentia [tvdbid=330500] Absentia [tvdbid=330500] - S01E01 - iptv.strm Absentia [tvdbid=330500] - S01E02 - iptv.strm Absentia [tvdbid=330500] - S01E03 - iptv.strm B Baby Reindeer [tvdbid=417223] Baby Reindeer [tvdbid=417223] - S01E01 - iptv.strm Baby Reindeer [tvdbid=417223] - S01E02 - iptv.strm Baby Reindeer [tvdbid=417223] - S01E03 - iptv.strm Movies are organized the same but have the TMDB ID in the the folder and file names. Back a couple of years ago I originally had this issue with only a single series. Marvel_s 616 [tvdbid=367227] I just deleted it and everything was fine until some new series got added recently and displayed the same behavior. Yakamoz S-245 [tvdbid=394252] Gordon Ramsay_s 24 Hours to Hell and Back [tvdbid=338893] Jamie_s 30-Minute Meals [tvdbid=197031] Blake_s 7 [tvdbid=75565] All the series affected seem to have digits as part of the title. Now the annoying bit. When one of these series is placed in the folder Emby gets very confused. For example if the Blakes 7 folder is placed under the B folder with several hundred other shows, all the shows starting with B disappear and the B folder becomes some random show name that does not exist, this random show then displays as having several thousand episodes. None of the B shows can be found or accessed. If I remove the Blakes7 folder and rescan all the other shows come back. While searching for this issue I came across someone reporting similar behavior for Jellyfin #13875. I have recreated the issue on fresh Emby server and just placed a few files in in the media directories and the behavior is consistently reproduced. Edited October 12 by bm-uk
Abobader 3544 Posted October 12 Posted October 12 Hello bm-uk, ** This is an auto reply ** Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you. It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread: Thank you. Emby Team
Luke 43549 Posted October 12 Posted October 12 Hi, what is the content type of the library in emby library setup?
bm-uk 1 Posted October 12 Author Posted October 12 TV shows All the settings for the library are at the current default. Only thing changed was the grouping is now turned off (Tried that to see if it made a difference). TheTVDB is the default for all the metadata and TMDB as fallback. There are no NFO files in my library.
Luke 43549 Posted October 13 Posted October 13 Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred: How to Report a Problem Thanks!
bm-uk 1 Posted October 13 Author Posted October 13 embyserver.txt Used a new test vm with Emby and put a few episodes of 2 shows in the library and scanned media files. Restarted Emby, turned on debug logging, added some episodes of Blakes 7 and scanned the media files again. Before screenshot After Screenshot
Luke 43549 Posted October 13 Posted October 13 13 hours ago, bm-uk said: embyserver.txt 157.68 kB · 1 download Used a new test vm with Emby and put a few episodes of 2 shows in the library and scanned media files. Restarted Emby, turned on debug logging, added some episodes of Blakes 7 and scanned the media files again. Before screenshot After Screenshot what were the new episode files?
bm-uk 1 Posted October 13 Author Posted October 13 The Blakes 7 files "Blake_s 7 [tvdbid=75565] - S01E01 - fast.strm" and "Blake_s 7 [tvdbid=75565] - S01E02 - fast.strm"
bm-uk 1 Posted October 13 Author Posted October 13 The title on TVDB has an apostrophe (') at that position. I replace all those "special" characters with an _
Luke 43549 Posted October 14 Posted October 14 If you put the year in the series folder name, does that help? So for example: Blake_s 7 (xxxx) [tvdbid=75565]
bm-uk 1 Posted October 14 Author Posted October 14 (edited) Tried adding the year as suggested to the folder and file names and the result was the same as without the year. Then tried removing the _ (Also removed the year) and it identified correctly and the separate series showed correctly. Edited October 14 by bm-uk 1
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