organization of media

[rcrh 1]

Perhaps my OCD has got the better of me but I have my media organized to help me maintain watched status & my backups.  Under my TV folder I have folders for new, watched & archived.  My series then fall under each so that I might have various seasons of a show in all three places.  Like so:

 

tv

  new

    show A

      s04e03

  watched

    show A

      Season 2

        s02exx

      Season 3

        s03exx

      Season 4

        s04e01

        s04e02

  archived

    show A

      Season 01

        s01exx

 

In Kodi I would all tv/new, tv/watched, tv/archived to a single share and the library would scan everything correctly.

In Emby if I do that I end up with three iterations of each show.

 

I also tried just added TV to emby and then I only get three shows in my library: NEW, WATCHED, ARCHIVED.

 

I wouldn't even mind if after scanning the library I had to combined the multiple entries but I can't find how to do that.

 

Any suggestions?

 

[Guest asrequested]

Perhaps my OCD has got the better of me but I have my media organized to help me maintain watched status & my backups.  Under my TV folder I have folders for new, watched & archived.  My series then fall under each so that I might have various seasons of a show in all three places.  Like so:

 

tv

  new

    show A

      s04e03

  watched

    show A

      Season 2

        s02exx

      Season 3

        s03exx

      Season 4

        s04e01

        s04e02

  archived

    show A

      Season 01

        s01exx

 

In Kodi I would all tv/new, tv/watched, tv/archived to a single share and the library would scan everything correctly.

In Emby if I do that I end up with three iterations of each show.

 

I also tried just added TV to emby and then I only get three shows in my library: NEW, WATCHED, ARCHIVED.

 

I wouldn't even mind if after scanning the library I had to combined the multiple entries but I can't find how to do that.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 I'm not quite sure what you're trying to achieve, but in the libraries will display whether you have watched something without moving the files to another directory. If you want to keep doing that you can set up libraries specially for those. Your folder structure looks workable ( https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV%20naming ). You can see here how to set up libraries.

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Library%20Setup

Edited May 17, 2016 by Doofus

[Deathsquirrel 745]

That's not going to work with TV.  You need to put all the episodes in the same folder structure:

 

\TV\Show Title\Season 01

\TV\Show Title\Season 02

\TV\Show Title\Season 03

\TV\Show Title\Season ETC.

[bluemonkey07 590]

I think it will work in beta as I believe Luke has been working on pooling TV show episodes of the same show that are stored in different physical locations to show under just one title.... At last:)

As to why you would go to the trouble of moving episodes after watching I have no idea.... That's a whole nother level of OCD

Edited May 17, 2016 by Vidman

[rcrh 1]

I think it will work in beta as I believe Luke has been working on pooling TV show episodes of the same show that are stored in different physical locations to show under just one title.... At last:)

As to why you would go to the trouble of moving episodes after watching I have no idea.... That's a whole nother level of OCD

That's good news.  I'll watch for the beta to progress.

As to my OCD this structure does a couple of things:

1) it tracks what I've copied to a back up media.  Nothing in any manager will do that,

2) allows me to see what I've watched if I'm not in Emby (like when I'm using VLC and a file manager),

3) helps me rebuild a library (like I'm doing right now with Emby),

4) it lets me keep my current stuff on faster, more easily accessed storage, and

5) makes me "feel" less itchy.

 

Thanks for the help. 

[dcook 299]

You can watch in VLC, just use the EMBY Sync feature, works fantastic

[rcrh 1]

I think it will work in beta as I believe Luke has been working on pooling TV show episodes of the same show that are stored in different physical locations to show under just one title.... At last:)

As to why you would go to the trouble of moving episodes after watching I have no idea.... That's a whole nother level of OCD

Is there anywhere I can follow along with development so I'll know if this moves into stable release?  

And BTW, your example is a perfect second use of this feature and I'm sure it's somewhat common for people without a NAS to have media spread across multiple drives.

Thanks.

[Luke 42085]

It's currently not enabled in beta but will be again soon.

[rcrh 1]

It's currently not enabled in beta but will be again soon.

Luke, what are you calling the feature?  So I can watch the blog and the change log.

Thanks.