Any way to manually add a single file?

[Accomidus 1]

Greetings,

I am new to Emby. I have  gotten set up and so far I am loving it. My question here is I set up my movie library I noticed it ignored what seems to be 1 solitary file. Like emby just doesn't see it at all. The file in question is the movie 9 (2009). It is an mp4 file and is named 9 (2009).m4v. All other movies that were recognized are in the same folder with the same naming convention and extension. When I say it doesn't recognize it I mean it is not like files it finds but cant look it up in TMDB.com...it simply doesn't show up at all. So is there a way in Emby to point to a specific file to flag it as media instead of a whole folder that it scans?

 

Thanks for you time

Acc

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

You should be able to select Identify off the 3-dot menu and it will provide a number of choices. If it doesn't then enter 12244 into the TMDB ID field and try again.

[blade005 185]

You should be able to select Identify off the 3-dot menu and it will provide a number of choices. If it doesn't then enter 12244 into the TMDB ID field and try again.

He said the scan doesn't recognize the file for inclusion in the library.

 

Accomidus,

 

I have the same movie in my library, but a MKV file. Named the same as you. 9 (2009).mkv

 

Not sure why the scan is not picking it up, but it may be worth a try to just rename the actual file from the number 9 to the spelling Nine (2009).m4v and perform another library scan to see if it picks it up.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Only the log can truly say why that movie is not being added during a library scan.

[Rumbaar 13]

I have 9 (2009).mp4 and it shows okay in my library.  If that helps at all?

 

Maybe try and change to .mp4 and see if it shows up, then it might be some other coding issue not liking the combination at the server level?

[Abobader 3464]

Good day,

 

As Happy2Paly said, it best to provide emby server log.

 

Just in case, can you check that media folder and insure no file or folder in it are hidden, if you find this the case, then remove the hidden flag from it and do library scan and see if that fix the issue.

 

My best

[Accomidus 1]

So I took up the suggestion of someone and tried to rename the file "Nine (2009).m4v" and now it finds it (although it has no idea what movie it is...easily fixed with the identify feature). Seems it doesn't like the 9 at the front of the file name. Or it could have been just changing something about the file set it off (it was the first thing I did whilst trying to figure out how to upload logs).

[Luke 42078]

@@Accomidus, if you're saying the video was never visible period, then I don't think we need to look at the logs. Instead, I would like to look at the folder structure and how you set it up in Emby. Would it be possible to take some screenshots of that? Thanks !

[Accomidus 1]

@@Accomidus, if you're saying the video was never visible period, then I don't think we need to look at the logs. Instead, I would like to look at the folder structure and how you set it up in Emby. Would it be possible to take some screenshots of that? Thanks !

 

Below is the SS of the top of my movies directory...all movies (past 2000, 1999 and below are in another directory for ease of searching) in the same directory. Mix of m4v and mkv (when I encoded them I forget to click mkv in handbrake (/blush)). 9 (2009) was right there before the 10000 movie (which does show up). 

 

 

 

 

Here is how the file looks now (and is showing up...the ONLY thing changed was from the number 9 to the word Nine). It can't look it up in TMDB but at least it sees it for me to edit it.

 

[Luke 42078]

Is it possible that it did show up but as something entirely different, meaning, possibly positioned later in the library where you didn't even notice it?

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

There was a movie named 9 and one named Nine in 2009.

 

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10197-nine

[Accomidus 1]

Is it possible that it did show up but as something entirely different, meaning, possibly positioned later in the library where you didn't even notice it?

 

Yes it is possible. But if it did, it didnt show up in the library under a search for the term 9 or nine. Also (the reason I noticed it) there was no system information file created for it like all the other movies.

[ebr 16184]

Is it possible that it did show up but as something entirely different, meaning, possibly positioned later in the library where you didn't even notice it?

 

I think this is by far the most likely scenario.  Somehow, it got mis-identified as some other movie so you didn't know what you were looking at.  

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Yes it is possible. But if it did, it didnt show up in the library under a search for the term 9 or nine. Also (the reason I noticed it) there was no system information file created for it like all the other movies.

 

There is a nine (2009).nfo file in your screenshot. It is the file with the computer and the exclamation mark since .nfo is also a type of Windows system file. So it was identified as something. The contents of the file should be XML and therefore text. Open the file in notepad and see what it has for the title.

[Accomidus 1]

There is a nine (2009).nfo file in your screenshot. It is the file with the computer and the exclamation mark since .nfo is also a type of Windows system file. So it was identified as something. The contents of the file should be XML and therefore text. Open the file in notepad and see what it has for the title.

That didn't appear until I renamed the file to "nine (2009).m4v". When it was "9 (2009).m4v" it had no NFO file...that is how I knew it probably wasn't in the database.

Edited January 19, 2017 by Accomidus

[Luke 42078]

Yea, I get that you think that but most likely it was in the database but probably named with some title you did not recognize. either way we can still look at better handling the situation. thanks.

[Accomidus 1]

Yea, I get that you think that but most likely it was in the database but probably named with some title you did not recognize. either way we can still look at better handling the situation. thanks.

Either way, I am happy it all worked out. Thank you all for your assistance.