Best setup to maintain metadata with offline film library

[JSH19 0]

I live on a boat and have poor to no internet connectivity aboard.

 

Currently I have the majority of my media on a Synology NAS connected to a router on the boat (but NOT to the internet.)

 

I have Emby Server running on a laptop and I have a folder on the laptop for Metadata. When I add new media I import it to the local drive and then, later move it to the shared drives (M: for movies or T: for TV Shows, my OCD manifesting I guess)

 

Is there anyway to import/move the metadata with the media files?

 

Would you recommend a different structure given my situation

[Carlo 4561]

Emby should run pretty well offline given the right clients but you probably already know this.

 

Is your issue adding new media?

How do you get your new media?

When you do add your new media do you do it when you have internet access so it can pull down the meta data?

 

Give us a bit more info on how you run your system.

[Luke 42080]

To maintain offline metadata i would suggest enabling nfo saving support to local media folders. this will save metadata directly alongside your media for safe keeping and easy editing.

[JSH19 0]

Emby runs just fine offline (as long as you connect to the internet and run it every few days)

 

I do not have issues adding new media, typically I buy my content on DVD and then rip them to AVI on the laptop my Emby server resides on (I typically use this laptop to watch media as well.

 

My take my laptop to the local cafe and can easily download metadata for media on the local drive, my problem comes when I move the media files to my NAS. I, previously, had metadata stored with the media files (as Luke has suggested) but had changed to storing it all in a folder on my local drive because I was having issues with a huge delay in populating the media list for items on the shared drive every time I opened Emby Theater. I am not sure if this is still an issue, I migrated to this almost a year ago.

 

If I do go back to storing metadata in media folders, will I be able to migrate my currently downloaded metadata to the media folders or will I need to copy them to my laptop, download the metadata and then copy the metadata files back to my NAS?

[abescalamis 84]

Emby runs just fine offline (as long as you connect to the internet and run it every few days)

 

I do not have issues adding new media, typically I buy my content on DVD and then rip them to AVI on the laptop my Emby server resides on (I typically use this laptop to watch media as well.

 

My take my laptop to the local cafe and can easily download metadata for media on the local drive, my problem comes when I move the media files to my NAS. I, previously, had metadata stored with the media files (as Luke has suggested) but had changed to storing it all in a folder on my local drive because I was having issues with a huge delay in populating the media list for items on the shared drive every time I opened Emby Theater. I am not sure if this is still an issue, I migrated to this almost a year ago.

 

If I do go back to storing metadata in media folders, will I be able to migrate my currently downloaded metadata to the media folders or will I need to copy them to my laptop, download the metadata and then copy the metadata files back to my NAS?

 

When you download the metadata, the paths of images get added to the NFO according to the folder structure for when you download the metadata from the internet, and when you will copy the movies to a different folder structure (NAS) it will have to redo a new NFO correcting the paths of the images that is why you had a huge delay populating the media, emby was correcting the images paths.

 

and when you started to save the metadata in a folder in the harddrive it didn't change the paths, because you would just connect it to the NAS.

 

Your options

 

# 1 Wait for the media to populate, if it takes a while is because is correcting the paths. ( I would do this)

# 2 Take your nas with you and download the metadata.

# 3 just keep doing it the way you are already doing it.

Edited March 15, 2018 by abescalamis

[Carlo 4561]

Or setup your laptop and nas to use the same NFO path settings so that it doesn't need to get fixed upon loading.