Handle TV shows and Movies in a single folder

[mishoboss 1]

Congrats for the great piece of software! However I'm little bit frustrated right now. Seems it can't handle both TV shows and Movies in a single folder? They need to be two different folders and Emby must know which is what. Why? I'm an old Plex user and I was so happy with Plex, because it handles that automatically. I kinda naturally expected it from Emby too. Is there a possibility to make it happen in some future version? Going thru my collection and manually arranging it into folders is not what I expect from a 2018 media server.

Keep the good work, guys!

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  Telling the system what type of item it will encounter allows us to provide more features and support more formats.

 

However, we do have a content type called "Mixed/Unset" which can interpret both movies and TV shows.

 

Have you tried that?

[mishoboss 1]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I tested the "Mixed/Unset" type, but again it failed to distinguish which is TV show and which is Movie, and to get covers and data. Is it supposed to do exactly this? Maybe I did something wrong? Will try again.

[ebr 16169]

What, exactly, does your structure look like?

[mishoboss 1]

I wouldn't call it a structure at all. I use Deluge. Is a client-server torrent app like Transmission. Its hosted on a DIY NAS and it has a hard-coded destination path where goes everything. You can see the "structure" below. Plex handles it extremely well. I use that approach since many years and had no issues with Plex dealing with my mess.

 

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I would not expect that naming or organization to work.  This is backed up well by the fact that it isn't.  Have a look at the naming wiki.  There are lots of tools that can automate renaming and organization.  There's even an auto-organize plugin you can check out.

[Luke 42077]

In the future I'd like for us to be able to handle a mish mash structure like this, but it's not something that we currently support.

[mishoboss 1]

Thanks for replies. What kind of work is needed this to be done? I would like to help. Where scraping logic is described? Would you like to extend the existing "Mixed/Unset" or would be better to introduce a new one, e.g. like "Movies/TV"?

[Luke 42077]

I am still in planning stages with it but there are other things that need to be looked at first to lay the groundwork.

[mishoboss 1]

Hi, guys, is there any progress on that topic? I really, really, really would love to switch to Emby. But I don't want to be a slave of my library and do manual managing work. Really, why there's A.I. if it can't be used for  such a boring stuff I'm ready to help developing the necessary logic if I'm guided properly. 

Edited August 1, 2018 by mishoboss

[Luke 42077]

Not yet but hopefully soon. Thanks.

[dejo78 0]

I second this - Plex handles it well. Hopefully Emby will soon - for now I am doing it manually file by file :-(

[Carlo 4560]

Hi, guys, is there any progress on that topic? I really, really, really would love to switch to Emby. But I don't want to be a slave of my library and do manual managing work. Really, why there's A.I. if it can't be used for  such a boring stuff I'm ready to help developing the necessary logic if I'm guided properly. 

No reason to do it manually.  Use one of the tools that will automate the whole process and allow you to drop a file into a specific directory and it will do it's magic to organize, rename and move to it's proper location. No more worries.

[dejo78 0]

No reason to do it manually.  Use one of the tools that will automate the whole process and allow you to drop a file into a specific directory and it will do it's magic to organize, rename and move to it's proper location. No more worries.

 

Which tools are you referring to? I had shows automatically download and Plex automatically recognize it and sort it. Is there a tool/plugin that automatically recognizes newly downloaded files and sorts them (without inputs from the user after initial set up)?

Edited October 14, 2018 by dejo78

[legallink 187]

I think the auto organize feature does this. Just point it at your folder and make sure it isn’t a folder that is part of your library.

[thelanranger 11]

This seems a little crazy, but there's something I brought up in another thread that they locked as duplicate to this one. 

 

What if you just have a single episode of a bunch of shows? I setup an RSS feed to just download first episodes and throw them into a junk folder. Plex picked this up fine. There's no way to put each one into its own folder. Clearly the scanner can already read the name of the file (it's doing it once you put it inside a folder) why can't it just read the names when they're mixed together?

[Happy2Play 9780]

This is something that Emby would like to do in the future but currently random episodes in a folder is not supported.

[Waffull 2]

This is something that Emby would like to do in the future but currently random episodes in a folder is not supported.

Will Emby support a single folder for all movies, at some point?  Currently, this screws up things like theme songs.

 

If would be great to have a single folder where all theme songs are stored and get named according to the movie title.  Same thing for subtitles.  I'm new to Emby.... coming from many years of using Plex.  It makes sense to have a folder structure for TV shows... title--> seasons.  But for movies, when most of them are a single file, it doesn't seem to make sense to have a complicated folder structure.  Couldn't Emby get the movie name from the filename and then store all data and symlinks in a database?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Will Emby support a single folder for all movies, at some point?  Currently, this screws up things like theme songs.

 

If would be great to have a single folder where all theme songs are stored and get named according to the movie title.  Same thing for subtitles.  I'm new to Emby.... coming from many years of using Plex.  It makes sense to have a folder structure for TV shows... title--> seasons.  But for movies, when most of them are a single file, it doesn't seem to make sense to have a complicated folder structure.  Couldn't Emby get the movie name from the filename and then store all data and symlinks in a database?

 

But theme songs are third party, so I would have to ask what is the issue since single folder already works?

[Luke 42077]

Hi @@Waffull we already support a single folder for all movies, just not movies with extra files such as theme songs.