Metadata Issue

[godbodian 57]

Maybe I'm missing something but the metadata on the latest group of files is not being picked up by Emby.

Every other file in my movie library, you have a description and so forth but the most  recent adds it's as if there's no .xml file and the movie is listed by the file name.

 

The same goes with my newly added episodes. None of them have titles, they're all S28E01, styled as opposed to the title of the respective episode.

 

Please advise. I don't know what logs or info you may need to troubleshoot so please let me know and bear with me.

 

I'm hoping it's just an error on my part, per usual.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

(UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I've tried literally everything I know to try. Which aint much. Refreshing, deleting cookies, clearing the database, repeated scanning, etc.)

Edited June 12, 2017 by godbodian

[Luke 42085]

What's not being picked up, the media file, or just the metadata file?

[godbodian 57]

Hey Luke, it's just the xml file. It's the weirdest thing. It was working and nothing changed. I'm not getting notices of newly added items either. Although they are there once I actually go into the webapp.

 

 

 

The items at the bottom are examples of newly added items that aren't populating any SPECIFIC metadata.

Edited June 12, 2017 by godbodian

[Luke 42085]

Ok, my apologies. I am still in process of writing up the announcement of the new release. But support for reading the legacy xml format has been moved to the Xml Metadata plugin, so you'll need to install that and then it will work fine.

 

I apologize for the change but the vast majority are not using xml anymore and this allows us to improve the performance of the library scan for those users. Thanks.

[godbodian 57]

Okay cool. See, I read alot of your responses to similar issues and I thought that might be it as well from what I understood in my brief research. I've already installed the plugin but I'm still getting the same issue.

 

Is there a step I'm missing?

[Luke 42085]

have you tried adding a new episode since installing it?

[godbodian 57]

I hadn't but I just removed a previously added file, removed the metadata and then readded it. Still no avail.

 

So just for added clarification, my issue isn't really throughout my entire library... it's like the last seven movies and like 12 episodes I've added within the last week or so.

All the other XML/metadata populates as it always has. 

 

(UPDATE: It worked I had to run another scan, meaning twice. But it only worked for that file. So I think I have to pull and everything I added and reintroduce it?)

[godbodian 57]

Thanks @@Luke as always. Everything is now sorted out.

[One2Go 120]

@@Luke

Just read in the new server release about the xml plugin. Since I am using xml files and have thousands of them and especially using some as templates for new content that is not available from the meta data sites, I just want to make 100% sure that my set-up continues to function as it has been so far.

 

I need to install the xml plugin which I presume is listed as an available plugin in the server dashboard?

 

Any other gotchas to watch out for?

 

Thanks

O2G

[blade005 185]

Ok, my apologies. I am still in process of writing up the announcement of the new release. But support for reading the legacy xml format has been moved to the Xml Metadata plugin, so you'll need to install that and then it will work fine.

 

I apologize for the change but the vast majority are not using xml anymore and this allows us to improve the performance of the library scan for those users. Thanks.

@@Luke

 

I have transitioned all metadata information in TV and Movie folders to NFO format. But, the previous XML files created over the years are still there in most cases.

 

When XML support was in Emby and not a plugin, you could prioritize the Metadata reader to read NFO files before XML in Emby Dashboard. If I don't install XML plugin, would removing all legacy XML files have any impact on library scan performance, or without the plugin it is not looking for that information?  Would removing legacy XML files have any impact on DB performance and size?  I have about 3,500 movies and 28,000 TV episodes.

Edited June 12, 2017 by blade005

[Luke 42085]

Thanks @@Luke as always. Everything is now sorted out.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

[Luke 42085]

@@Luke

Just read in the new server release about the xml plugin. Since I am using xml files and have thousands of them and especially using some as templates for new content that is not available from the meta data sites, I just want to make 100% sure that my set-up continues to function as it has been so far.

 

I need to install the xml plugin which I presume is listed as an available plugin in the server dashboard?

 

Any other gotchas to watch out for?

 

Thanks

O2G

 

Hi, just install the Xml Metadata plugin from the Emby plugin catalog and that will allow us to read your xml metadata.

[Luke 42085]

@@Luke

 

I have transitioned all metadata information in TV and Movie folders to NFO format. But, the previous XML files created over the years are still there in most cases.

 

When XML support was in Emby and not a plugin, you could prioritize the Metadata reader to read NFO files before XML in Emby Dashboard. If I don't install XML plugin, would removing all legacy XML files have any impact on library scan performance, or without the plugin it is not looking for that information?  Would removing legacy XML files have any impact on DB performance and size?  I have about 3,500 movies and 28,000 TV episodes.

 

If you don't have the plugin installed then you can just leave the xml files there and they will cause no harm. Or you can search and delete them to clean things up.