Genres? How does it work?

[muratpak 1]

Lovely app. I've tried a lot of things, emby wins with it simplicity and magical powers for me.

 

I would like to understand how "genres" work -- I assumed they are auto extracted from movies but after a full metadata refresh of my whole library the "genres" section for my emby medi a server is still empty.

 

Any guidance about this is appreciated, if there is a way to auto extract genres from movies.

[aspdend 177]

in my experience, the genres are filled in automatically with each movie or tv episode with a metadata refresh - the info is pulled down from tmdb or tvdb - if available.

[ebr 16192]

Hi and welcome.

 

If your items have pre-existing .nfo files then that is where our metadata will come from so they would need to contain the genres.

 

Have you enabled downloading of metadata from the internet?

[muratpak 1]

in my experience, the genres are filled in automatically with each movie or tv episode with a metadata refresh - the info is pulled down from tmdb or tvdb - if available.

For me it wasn't there!

 

 

Hi and welcome.

 

If your items have pre-existing .nfo files then that is where our metadata will come from so they would need to contain the genres.

 

Have you enabled downloading of metadata from the internet?

 

This seems to fix the issue! I've re-created all of the nfo files (deleted, and recached) - this seems to fix the issue! Thank you, compared to the competitor, plex, I love how direct and easy to use emby is!

[ebr 16192]

Thanks for the feedback!

[aspdend 177]

For me it wasn't there!

 

 

 

This seems to fix the issue! I've re-created all of the nfo files (deleted, and recached) - this seems to fix the issue! Thank you, compared to the competitor, plex, I love how direct and easy to use emby is!

Glad it was sorted for you and you will love Emby the more you use it!