double listing for TV Shows

[reyes136 2]

I have 2 different folders where TV shows are recorded to. One is for my HDHR and the other is for wmc. I created a library in EMBY and added both folders to the library. The problem is that when I log in to the server with my client I see 2 listings for say "the big bang" one is for the shows in the HDHR folder and one is for the WMC folder. Is it possible to combine these into one show listing?

[Luke 42083]

It's a planned feature for the future

[reyes136 2]

Wow that seems like something basic that should already be there. Is there a feature status area where I can track this. I wanted to come back to EMBY from Plex for the kodi integration but I guess its back to plex till then.

[ebr 16187]

Most people with large sets of drives are using drive pooling solutions to not only simplify this particular issue but also many more (only needing to manage a single location for a whole host of processes).

 

Therefore, the demand for this feature hasn't been terribly high so it just hasn't made it to the top of the list yet.

[carlbme 13]

It'd never occurred to me that this might even be needed. I'm curious why house the files in two different locations? I'm not familiar with HDHR and WMC, but do they not allow you to set where you content is? If so then have a central storage (NAS/SAN/FS) where everything is and then have everything point to that one location.

[StockportJambo 0]

Drives run out of space. NAS only has a limited number of bays, then you need to add more hardware and locations.

 

I have my TV shows spread out over about five different network locations (each library has 5 folders).

 

I'm a new user (and supporter) of Emby, but I can't use it in place of Plex until this issue is sorted one way or another - it's a deal-breaker. 

 

I don't even know what "drive pooling" is, beyond what Google tries to tell me, so if someone can point me in the direction of an article that explains in easy terms how I can get 3 different NAS systems, plus a Windows 2012 server (running Emby) with two internal and two external drives to be seen as "one" *without* having to copy data or reformat any drives, that would be great   

Edited February 25, 2016 by StockportJambo

[ebr 16187]

Google FlexRaid, DrivePool and unRaid.

 

I believe FlexRaid can pool network locations.

[StockportJambo 0]

ebr,

 

Thanks for the suggestion of FlexRAID. I'm playing with it now. It's the only solution I've found that seems to work without any reformatting of drives or extra hardware.

 

Cheers!

[lal 4]

Read up on symbolic links (symlinks).

That's the solution I currently use for shows that span multiple drives, works wonders.

[StockportJambo 0]

Lal,

 

Can you give a scenario where that works wonders? Seems to me that solves a different problem to the one I'm facing.

 

Symbolic links only let you point to different locations for the actual data - but the names have to be unique. How could I have a directory of 'TV' on five different drives, with sub-directories for each show, and the actual episodes spread across those five drives? Do you suggest making a symbolic link for every individual episode?

[lal 4]

Do you suggest making a symbolic link for every individual episode?

 

You can, but wouldn't recommend it, too labor intensive.

You'd have to rethink how you use your drives and where you save your data.

I found using symlinks by season for my TV shows to be the most efficient way of doing it.

 

e.g.: I currently have 5 drives that store media.

Drive 1, 4, 5 for TV

Drive 1 is where I dump my latest TV shows, be it rips, recordings for the latest season.

Drive 4, 5 is used for long term storage.

 

Drive 1 - F:\Latest\-=Media=-\TV\South Park\S19

symlink - Drive 4 - G:\Media\TV\South Park\S19 <-- this links to Drive 1

Drive 4 - Also houses Season 1 to 18, actual media storage

 

The last piece, do not list Drive 1 in your TV libraries in Emby, only Drive 4.

With this setup, I have seasons on 2 drives and South Park only shows up once in Emby with all the seasons 1 to 19.

 

If your using windows, this would be the symlink you would paste in a cmd prompt for the above example:

mklink /J "G:\Media\TV\South Park\S19" "F:\Latest\-=Media=-\TV\South Park\S19"

 

Hope that helps.

[coralmedia 1]

Does emby running in mono on *nix support symlinks now?

Edited February 29, 2016 by coralmedia