Unset Content Folder Inheriting TV Type

[TheBrainninja 0]

With a recent update, a folder I have inside an Unset Content library is incorrectly deciding it is a TV show - despite it housing actual TV shows and movies. I've tried fiddling with custom Content Types system.xml, but that hasn't done anything...and I'm not able to manually Identify any of the series or movies inside of it, as they think they are seasons of the parent folder.

 

Any ideas? I'm on server version 3.2.50.0, but the issue was introduced a few releases ago.

[Luke 42080]

it's probably due to the numbers, which ended up getting parsed as season and episode numbers.

 

Here's the problem with the mixed content type. It's impossible for us to perfectly detect every possible situation that can be presented to us. We reluctantly offer it but we don't recommend it. I would suggest using the the more basic tv and movie content types which means possible rearrangement.

 

Or you could use the home videos content type, but then of course there's no internet metadata, which you'd have to provide on your own.

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[TheBrainninja 0]

it's probably due to the numbers, which ended up getting parsed as season and episode numbers.

 

Here's the problem with the mixed content type. It's impossible for us to perfectly detect every possible situation that can be presented to us. We reluctantly offer it but we don't recommend it. I would suggest using the the more basic tv and movie content types which means possible rearrangement.

 

Or you could use the home videos content type, but then of course there's no internet metadata, which you'd have to provide on your own.

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

Thanks for the quick response!

 

That number filing system works pretty well elsewhere, so I'd really like to keep it. Is there any way I can manually enforce the content type (including "directory") in individual cases? I don't mind doing the manual work for the few times this goes wrong.

[TheBrainninja 0]

it's probably due to the numbers, which ended up getting parsed as season and episode numbers.

 

Here's the problem with the mixed content type. It's impossible for us to perfectly detect every possible situation that can be presented to us. We reluctantly offer it but we don't recommend it. I would suggest using the the more basic tv and movie content types which means possible rearrangement.

 

Or you could use the home videos content type, but then of course there's no internet metadata, which you'd have to provide on your own.

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

 

Hopefully this doesn't count as a necro within the same month, but to update: I removed everything but one folder from that directory, removed the year from the file name...and it still detects it as a TV show. I think it's getting hung up on the word "Series" in the file path, but...that's the show's full name. I had a similar problem with my folder of Halloween movies, because of Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I removed the subtitle from that one, but reducing this show to Batman: The Animated would be grating and confusing.

 

Is there any way to manually override the detected content type? I understand the difficulty in automatically detecting every conceivable use case, but in a situation like this where I know the detection is wrong it would be very nice to choose it myself.

 

Thanks again for any assistance, and happy holidays! 

[Luke 42080]

Hi, sorry, this is a hard one, and that is why we haven't answered yet. In fact, that's really why we have the top level content type selections to begin with, it to avoid this kind of thing because it very complicated, very quickly.

[Luke 42080]

@@TheBrainninja please let us know if this has helped at all. Thanks !

[TheBrainninja 0]

@@TheBrainninja please let us know if this has helped at all. Thanks !

Hey, sorry for the delay. I deleted "Season" and "Series" where it appeared in directory names, and the problem went away. Changing the library-level content type isn't really viable for me, as I've deliberately mixed my Movies and TV from a philosophical standpoint. Emby's plasticity regarding content types is honestly its largest draw for me over, say, Plex, which is far more rigid about what content can be in what folders. With those strings absent, the content detection calmed down and treated the parent folders as plain directories again, so I remain a happy Emby user.

 

If I could implore development to implement some kind of content-detection override in the future, it would make my life easier - but honestly, understanding the true nature of the issue is good enough for me to work around that. Thanks for checking back in!

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the feedback !