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Hi

 

I added a new movie title to the library and this now makes a collection of two titles. 

 

I went in to the Auto Box Sets plugin and pressed the "Refresh Box Sets" button, but looking in the library later I cannot see that it has created a new Collection for these titles. 

 

The option "Create BoxSets only if I have at least this many of its movies:" is set to 2.

 

Anyone else having this problem? 

 

Thanks. 

Posted

Does the new movie have a tmdb collection ID?

 

What is your metadata source?

Posted

Hi there.

 

Yes the new title added has all the ID's populated:

 

External IDs:
 
IMDb Id:
tt3393786
 
TheMovieDb Id:
343611
 
TheMovieDb Collection Id:
403374
 
Thanks
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However looking at the first film from 2012, it does not have the TheMovieDb Collection Id field populated. Perhaps that is the problem ? 

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Posted (edited)

OK I manually added the collection ID in to the first film's info in Emby. I then ran the refresh box sets again. 

 

And now I have a new Collection in the movie collections view. 

 

So how is this normally handled ? 

 

Obviously in 2012 when this first film was scraped in to Emby, there was no collection hence no collection ID number. 

Edited by cw-kid
Posted

The plugin depends on your movies having Tmdb Collection Id's, so yes that's something you need to make sure of.

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The plugin depends on your movies having Tmdb Collection Id's, so yes that's something you need to make sure of.

 

And how do I do that? I'd presumably have to re-scrape the entire movie collection for new metadata like these collection IDs. 

 

Thanks

Posted

You may not need to do anything, but if you're noticing some collections not being created, then this gives you an idea of how to correct it.

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In the past it always seemed to work on its own and created new collections without user intervention other than maybe pressing the refresh button to set it going now and again. But there well could be collections it has missed and I have never noticed etc.

Happy2Play
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One reason I like nested collections for this situation. :) 

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One reason I like nested collections for this situation. :)

 

In that instance, you would have to go find the previous movie and physically move it to a new location.  How is that easier than than simply refreshing its metadata?

Happy2Play
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In that instance, you would have to go find the previous movie and physically move it to a new location.  How is that easier than than simply refreshing its metadata?

 

Well the media is already that way in my situation.

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Well the media is already that way in my situation.

 

But, in his example, it wouldn't be.

 

Single movie #1 comes out no collection ID and it is all alone in your configuration.

 

A few years later movie #2 comes out.  Now, you either have to move movie #1 (your situation) or ensure it has the new collection ID (auto situation).

 

In any other scenario, Auto Box sets will just pick it up without anything else happening (no matter where the new movie is :)).

Happy2Play
Posted

I know what you are saying, but when movie #2 comes out Collection folder is made and both movies are put in it to stay organized. 

Deathsquirrel
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But, in his example, it wouldn't be.

 

Single movie #1 comes out no collection ID and it is all alone in your configuration.

 

A few years later movie #2 comes out.  Now, you either have to move movie #1 (your situation) or ensure it has the new collection ID (auto situation).

 

In any other scenario, Auto Box sets will just pick it up without anything else happening (no matter where the new movie is :)).

 

Just to throw in an extra complication, and the one that made me so freaking happy to stop doing this on disk, the drive holding movie 1 is full.  Now you have to move the movie to a new storage location to create a collection...

Happy2Play
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Just to throw in an extra complication, and the one that made me so freaking happy to stop doing this on disk, the drive holding movie 1 is full.  Now you have to move the movie to a new storage location to create a collection...

 

Well Drive Pooling resolves that issue. :D 

Deathsquirrel
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Well Drive Pooling resolves that issue. :D

 

Tell that to my 21TB array with about 50GB free at the moment. ;)

Happy2Play
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Tell that to my 21TB array with about 50GB free at the moment. ;)

 

OT: Well I got my 18TB/2TB free and 38TB/7TB free.  And all I have to do is add another drive at any time. :o

Edited by Happy2Play
Posted

Isn't this the case of the option "Automatically refresh metadata from the internet:" for the library is set to NEVER.  Should the OP set it to some other option to allow automatic metadata updating?

Posted

Depends on how much he wants that vs. the slower library scans it will bring.

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