Question about my Doctor Who .nfo files

[Marc_G 95]

Hi folks,

 

Complete fresh reinstallation of Emby Server (windows) was done last weekend.

 

Now, today, I dropped some recent episodes of Doctor Who (2005) Season 10 (episodes 7-12) into the pre-existing folder that had an earlier episode. Prior to all this, it was identified correctly I believe.

 

Now, Emby is considering these files to be part of the earlier twentieth century doctor who instead of the one that started in 2005. Nothing I do has fixed it.

 

I've deleted all the metadata from the folder, gone to Metadata Manager and did an identification, picking the 2005 version, then refreshing metadata. No dice

 

I've renamed the folder to \Doctor Who (2005)\, then forced a new identification and refreshed metadata. No dice.

 

I've fussed around, poked, identified, refreshed, library scanned, and so on. HELP. What do I need to do?

 

Path names would be like this:

 

\\HTSERVER\TV Series\Doctor Who (2005)\Season 10\Doctor Who S10E07.mkv

 

Possibly related, possibly not, I noticed that when I Dropped all the new episodes into the Season 10 folder, all the thumbnail jpgs were right into that folder when created, instead of in a subfolder for Metadata. I went into the library settings and unchecked the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" button, figuring maybe I checked that after doing my server rebuild and shouldn't have. I want all that metadata into tidy metadata subfolders. No new metadata has been created in the Season 10 folder since I did this, so maybe it was not the right thing to do, unchecking that box.

 

Anyway, what is my next step. I'm sure this is user error one way or another, but I don't know what more I can do to tell Emby this is the New Doctor Who not the old Doctor Who.

 

Please advise! I've attached some logs from today, in case that helps.

 

server-63646905600.txt

server-63646959336.txt

[Luke 42083]

Actually according to the log it appears the path does not contain the year

\\HTServer\TV Series\Doctor Who\Season 10\Doctor Who S10E07-thumb.jpg

and that probably explains the mismatch.

[Marc_G 95]

Actually according to the log it appears the path does not contain the year

\\HTServer\TV Series\Doctor Who\Season 10\Doctor Who S10E07-thumb.jpg

and that probably explains the mismatch.

 

After fussing for a while with the old folder name, which was always identified correctly previously, I changed the path to include (2005), then reidentified, scanned, etc.. Still no proper identification. For clarity, I changed the path about halfway through my efforts. I've been playing around just now for another half hour without getting it identified. This is a puzzler.

Edited November 22, 2017 by Marc_G

[Luke 42083]

Probably because you left metadata inside the folder and that metadata was picked up. Is that correct?

[Marc_G 95]

Probably because you left metadata inside the folder and that metadata was picked up. Is that correct?

 

Nope, I removed all the metadata (the old folder called Metadata, and all the jpgs and nfo files and such, before renaming).

 

Here's what it looks like:

 

[Marc_G 95]

OK! I got the identification to work! Not sure what I did. I reidentified one more time, using a different suggestion (there are two for Dr. Who 2005). This time it gave the right metadata.

 

Yea

 

Now, what setting do I need to tweak to get it to put the metadata into a "Metadata" subfolder. Currently the box is checked to put metadata in the media folder. Is it that I must uncheck that, then rescan? Or some other process, to get it into Metadata subfolder?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I don't have season 10 on disc yet but just as an FYI this naming convention is working well for me:

 

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\Doctor Who (2005)\Season 08\Doctor Who (2005) S08E01 Deep Breath.mkv

[Marc_G 95]

Hi everyone,

 

After experimenting a bit, I believe the problem was user error in part, or at least user ignorance. Plenty of that going on with me. :-)

 

When I deleted the metadata in the \Season 10\ folder, I didn't delete the .nfo file in the parent \Doctor Who (2005)\ folder, and that appears to have been necessary. I thought that deleting the .nfos for each episode, along with the thumbnails, would be sufficient. It's not, apparently. Oops.

 

As for the "Metadata folder" issue, I'll start another thread dedicated to that, if I don't figure it out.  Thanks to everyone for their help in this thread.

[Luke 42083]

Thanks for the info.

[naeonline 27]

EMBY doesn't put metadata into a subfolder named metadata fyi

eg. TV Show\Season 01\metadata\

 

It only places the metadata in the same folder as the media files themselves.

[Marc_G 95]

EMBY doesn't put metadata into a subfolder named metadata fyi

 

eg. TV Show\Season 01\metadata\

 

It only places the metadata in the same folder as the media files themselves.

 

Respectfully, in my experience it does, though i'm not sure if it is Emby itself or the CoverArt plugin. Any TV series library I have, the individual season folders contain a Metadata folder, which contains .jpgs of each episode. Here is an example:

 

 

At some point after my server reinstallation, it started putting the jpgs directly into the season folder instead of the metadata subfolder. Not sure why.

Edited November 23, 2017 by Marc_G

[ebr 16187]

_{We eliminated the metadata folder a couple of years ago I believe.}

[CBers 7452]

_{We eliminated the metadata folder a couple of years ago I believe.}

I found a load in my TV and Movies library yesterday.

 

I deleted them and then rescanned my library and they weren't recreated.

[Marc_G 95]

That saddens me. I preferred having stuff in the metadata folders for tidiness. But, at least I know that there's no settings I need to tweak to get them back. My server was rebuilt (hardware wise) a year ago and I migrated content (with no metadata) at that time. Metadata subfolders were created then and have been updated as I add new content episodes to those series all year. But no longer I suppose. [emoji31]