dcrdev 255 Posted September 27, 2017 Posted September 27, 2017 Traditionally my TV library has been organised into "Seasons" despite the convention here in the UK being "Series", all of my media is organised in the following way Show/Season/Show - Episode Number - Episode.extension. Last night I noticed that new seasons are now being tagged as "Series" instead of "Season", so I now have shows with a mix of seasons and series. Is there any way to override this? I'm assuming this is because I have my locale set to UK and that there has been some kind of change to metadata handling recently.
paulsalter 84 Posted September 27, 2017 Posted September 27, 2017 There was a change to make things more regional I just go into Meta Data Manager now and rename after I have added a new Season, prefered it how it was prior when it used the folder naming https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/50757-regional-terminology/ The only way i know to avoid this is setting up as US, but then you get dates in the wrong order
dcrdev 255 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Posted September 27, 2017 That's not good - Surely that means I have to edit every single episode's metadata going forward? I probably add 20-30 new episodes every week... @@Luke is there no way to override this, how do locales work - are they defined in a file I can modify without recompiling? Alternatively - if I were to switch to the "Series" convention, would I pretty much have to run an update statement on each database file and then do some regular expression on each local nfo file?
Luke 42080 Posted September 27, 2017 Posted September 27, 2017 Yea this is happening because we are taking the "Season X" text from our localizaton files contributed by users. Exposing it for configuration is not a bad idea.
paulsalter 84 Posted September 27, 2017 Posted September 27, 2017 That's not good - Surely that means I have to edit every single episode's metadata going forward? I probably add 20-30 new episodes every week... @@Luke is there no way to override this, how do locales work - are they defined in a file I can modify without recompiling? Alternatively - if I were to switch to the "Series" convention, would I pretty much have to run an update statement on each database file and then do some regular expression on each local nfo file? It's only when you add a new Season that you need to change it, not for each episode I have been tempted to change over, but i prefer the Season term, especially for US shows
dcrdev 255 Posted November 2, 2017 Author Posted November 2, 2017 Lol so since my database got corrupted and I switched to the core version, I decided to tackle this problem. Since I'm british, I thought I might as well redo everything as "Series". I deleted all of the metadata in the folders under my TV Shows, did a bulk rename using awk to change "Season" to "Series" and then proceeded to scan my library back in. Guess what - everything is now exclusively showing as "Season" and yes I've changed all the regional settings to "English (United Kingdom)" both in the general and individual library settings. I give up.
Luke 42080 Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 What is your preferred metadata language for that particular library? It's the metadata language that determines it.
dcrdev 255 Posted November 2, 2017 Author Posted November 2, 2017 Uh well that's just "English" there's no distinction between British English and US English in the list. The "Country" option underneath it though is set to "United Kingdom"
dcook 299 Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 @@Luke Why is it a bad idea to allow the end user to use the term he prefers? It was working fine all along up until you made this change and now forcing us to use whatever is in your localization file. If I am living in UK and I want to use term "Season" why do you have a problem with that? Yea this is happening because we are taking the "Season X" text from our localizaton files contributed by users. Exposing it for configuration is not a bad idea.
CBers 7451 Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 For the record, I'm in the UK, with English/United Kingdom metadata set for my TV libraries and I have SEASON. I want SEASON, not SERIES.
dcrdev 255 Posted November 2, 2017 Author Posted November 2, 2017 I really don't care either way - I just want consistency because otherwise it screws up the sort order in kodi. I had season, was fine with it - then you made a change and new episodes started going under series. I was manually having to change everything to season every time I got a new episode - this got tedious, so decided to rename all folders to series and start again. But like I said now everything's showing as season - so to save me having to rename everything yet again. Could we just allow customisation of this?
jordy 284 Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 For the record, I'm in the UK, with English/United Kingdom metadata set for my TV libraries and I have SEASON. I want SEASON, not SERIES. FTR, I am in Australia, Emby Server Language is English / UK (for the date issue) and Metadata language is English / Australia. All TV shows are labelled as "Season" which is exactly what I want also.
Luke 42080 Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 I think it makes sense to introduce a setting to use your season folder name if that's what you want. 3
paulsalter 84 Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 I think it makes sense to introduce a setting to use your season folder name if that's what you want. That would be fantastic
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