Episodes' primary images not displaying

[amaga 4]

Hello

 

For a couple of weeks now, the primary images for new episodes I add to my library don't display. Instead, the series' poster appears. Old episodes still display their primary images.

 

In my setup, I disabled Emby from fetching photos because I like to add them myself. So I have the "Download artwork and metadata from internet" option disabled and the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" option enabled.

 

I don't save metadata in nfo files, only xml. My directory structure has a subfolder called metadata for each season folder with an xml and jpg file with the same name as the episode. For example:

 

Game of Thrones

- Season 07

  - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.mkv

  - metadata

    - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.xml

    - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.jpg

 

Movies are displaying their images with no problem as well as seasons - only the episodes are having this problem.

 

When I open Metadata manager, it indicates that the episode is missing its primary image. 

 

I'm running Emby Server 3.2.26.0.

 

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks!

[ebr 16187]

Hi.  Please see: Server not reading MetaBrowser .xml anymore?

 

Also, I'm not sure if the separate metadata folder may be considered legacy as well in the case of us not retrieving the images...

[doddsie 10]

I can confirm this may be a problem. Clean install adding a folder with 6 movies in folders with no data apart from the movie inside. Emby downloads all the images but in the server there is no primary image

 

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[Luke 42083]

I can confirm this may be a problem. Clean install adding a folder with 6 movies in folders with no data apart from the movie inside. Emby downloads all the images but in the server there is no primary image

 

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@@doddsie, this has no relation to what's being discussed here. Please open your own topic and attach the information requested in how to report a problem. thanks !

[amaga 4]

I've been reading a couple of threads and just want to clear things up before I start updating my library.

 

If a separate metadata folder is legacy, I should move images to the seasons' folders. Also, I should migrate xml files no nfo. So in my previous example, my structure should go from:

 

Game of Thrones

- Season 07

  - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.mkv

  - metadata

    - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.xml

    - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.jpg

 

To:

 

Game of Thrones

- Season 07

  - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.mkv

  - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.nfo

  - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01-thumb.jpg

 

Is this correct?

[Luke 42083]

Correct although the contents of the xml and nfo files are different, so you can't just move and rename the xml file to where the nfo should go.

[amaga 4]

Hi

 

Just finished updating the metadata for all my series. Now I'm using Kodi's file structure, for example:

 

Game of Thrones

- season07-banner.jpg

 

- season07-poster.jpg

- season07-fanart.jpg

- /Season 07

   - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.mkv

   - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01.nfo

   - Game.of.Thrones.S07E01-thumb.jpg

 

Episodes' images, metadata, backgrounds - everything is displaying fine, except that, for some series, the seasons' posters don't display and are marked as missing in Emby server's metadata editor. This only occurs with some series - around 20-30% of them. I've tried to find a pattern, but couldn't, since all series have the same file structure. Any ideas on how I can find out what's wrong?

 

Thanks!

[Luke 42083]

Can you discuss an example? Thanks.

[amaga 4]

Hi Luke

 

Thanks for the help. I'm attaching two images - one of the folder structure for Breaking Bad and another showing that in metadata manager it says there is no season posters. Is there any log file I can view? This only happens in some shows, not all.

 

 

 

[Luke 42083]

If you click on each season in the metadata manager, do they have a season number filled in?

[amaga 4]

That solved it Luke. Thanks!

 

A suggestion for a feature is, when a tv show library is re-scanned, Emby could check the folder name to try to figure out the season number, if it is missing. That would prevent this from happening.

 

Once again, thanks for the help.

[Luke 42083]

Thanks for the feedback.