Auto Box Sets not working correctly

[chjohans 34]

This has newer worked correctly for me. I have 1000+ movies in my collection nut Auto Box Set only finds and creates 3 collections. I know for a fact that I should have many more.

 

Any suggestions on how to debug this and which logfiles (locations please) are relevant?

 

I would really like to get this to work so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Does Emby collect all your metadata?  Do your movies contain the collectionid in the metadata?

[ebr 16169]

What Happy said.

 

Do you use external metadata files?

[chjohans 34]

Yes I use Media Center Master to manage my metadata, so Emby gets it's metadata from external files. But I have allowed Emby to download metadata as well.

 

MCM creates (among other files) movie.xml in each movie folder, and I assume Emby reads this. This file contains the tag

 

<CollectionNumber>8091</CollectionNumber>

 

(taken from the movie "Aliens")

 

Which is the correct collection ID for that movie btw. Somehow the "Alien Collection" is among the very few collections Emby will find. But lots of my other movies have this tag, so I believe that if Emby/Auto Box Sets would read it it could generate the collections based on my metadata files.

 

For my understanding, how does Auto Box Sets get it's metadata?

 

And any chance of getting this to work? I really like MCM for managing my metadata so I really don't want to stop using it.

Edited August 31, 2016 by chjohans

[ebr 16169]

Is that collection ID always going to be the Tmdb ID or is it possible for you to configure MCM to fill it in with another source?

[chjohans 34]

Yes, if that tag is there it will be the Tmdb *collection ID*. I cannot configure MCM to alter this tag in any way.

[ebr 16169]

Luke - I pushed a change that should handle this.

[chjohans 34]

That's just super news, thanks a lot!

[ebr 16169]

Assuming it works as expected, once the change is released, you will have to refresh the metadata on the movies themselves.  Just running the Auto BoxSets task won't pick it up.

[chjohans 34]

Ok, but exactly what does that mean? Can I just refresh my metadata from MCM so the "movie.xml" files are "refreshed" (overwritten and a new date)? Or do I have to do something on the Emby side?

[ebr 16169]

That would probably work but easier to just do a refresh at the library level in Emby (... menu).

[chjohans 34]

Ok, will do that then, thanks.

[Happy2Play 9780]

MCM creates two collection ids, so I don't see this to be an issue unless this is really old metadata.

 

<TMDbCollectionId></TMDbCollectionId
<CollectionNumber></CollectionNumber

[chjohans 34]

No, MCM no longer creates TmdbCollectionId, it just creates CollectionNumber

Edited August 31, 2016 by chjohans

[Happy2Play 9780]

Really just create one right now.

 

debug log

8:41 AM :: [08:41:27.588] DEBUG:  Extra XML: TMDbCollectionId=9485
8:41 AM :: [08:41:27.588] DEBUG:  Extra XML: CollectionNumber=9485

 

and from xml

<TMDbCollectionId>9485</TMDbCollectionId>
<CollectionNumber>9485</CollectionNumber>

[chjohans 34]

Hmm, mine does not (latest version). Will post in the MCM forum then.

[Happy2Play 9780]

I'll see you there.

[ebr 16169]

The one that we read might be the result of you having some sort of "MediaBrowser" compatibility mode set...

[Luke 42077]

Why not just use Emby for everything? You can make things quite a bit easier for yourself.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Why not just use Emby for everything? You can make things quite a bit easier for yourself.

Probably all of the other integrated stuff that Emby will never have.  But even with MCM creating metadata, the most you have to do in Emby if you have issues is a Refresh for missing metadata to resolve any issue.

[chjohans 34]

An update on this: Emby now finally creates all my "collections" correctly.

 

It turns out I had most of my metadata "locked" in MCM, so it didn't update them with the tag "<TMDbCollectionId></TMDbCollectionId>", at some point MCM must only have supported "<CollectionNumber></CollectionNumber>" because most (if not all) of my movies only had that tag. So i "unlocked" all my metadata in MCM and did a full refresh, took a shilw but when it was all done Emby built my "collections" as it should.

 

I prefer to use MCM to manage my metadata for several reasons:

- Habit, I've used it for years and it works extremely well

- It has a lot of "download functions" integrated so I can make lists of what I want and if everything is configured correctly it will just "magically" appear in my collectrion once available

- It creates metadata for a lot of different platforms - I like to keep my options open

 

Thanks for all the help with this!