Emby picking the folder name instead of the filename

[filipemcoelho 0]

Hello, I'm trying Emby Server and like it so far, however when it scans my movie files it's picking up the folder name instead of the filename.

 

i.e. All my files are under a folder with it's index number and the movie name:

 

Movies\5687. JFK\jfk (1991).mp4

 

and Emby is scanning it as "5687. jfk" meaning that it doesn't recognize it and doesn't get the right information for the movie itself.

 

The strange thing is that all my movies are like that and some it recognizes correctly.

 

Thanks in advance for helping me understand/solve this.

[arche 177]

Take a look at this if you haven't already. https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie%20naming

 

Maybe the period in the folder name is screwing it up, not sure though.

[filipemcoelho 0]

Hi, thanks for the fast reply.

I saw the link before and was hoping that the folder name with the index and movie name wasn't conflicting.

Tried to remove the period and did the same "5687 jfk" (without the period).

 

On kodi it works (since they have an option to say that the folder doesn't correspond to the name of the movie itself.

Any other possibilities?

 

Thanks,

[arche 177]

The only other thing I can think of right now and not sure if it matters, do you have the "Display a folder view to show plain media folders" checked? Not sure if this could be a folder permission thing or not. Might have to wait for the devs to chime in. 

[Luke 42080]

On kodi it works (since they have an option to say that the folder doesn't correspond to the name of the movie itself.

Any other possibilities?

 

Thanks,

 

They have this setting per title or for the whole library?

[filipemcoelho 0]

I think it's for the all library, when adding/editing the source files, on "Content scanning options" they have "Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title". In my case, I have this option disabled.

[Luke 42080]

I wonder if this can just be smart and automatic, like for instance, if we can't extract a title and year from the folder name then we could try file name. I suppose that could lead to false positives though.

[ebr 16185]

I suppose that could lead to false positives though.

 

I would think potentially a lot of them since there are movies called "Movie 43" etc.

[filipemcoelho 0]

Well, since I'm going to start using Emby, I decided to Identify all movies (one by one), however, here are my pennies worth on this subject. The organization itself, meaning folder structure, shouldn't have anything to do with the automatic identification of the movies. What should matter is the actual filename, if done correctly, "Name of the movie (release year)" and metadata (if filled) I really doubt that who has a big collection, will have the metadata filled correctly. I have around 6000 movies, and using another software to organize my list, I really have to start using an index number to identify the movies in the folder structure. In my research on this forum and others I see that most people organize it actually alphabetically which (for me) it doesn't make sense (unless I have a HD for every letter) otherwise I'll spend my life moving files from a disk to another because it filled.

 

About the false positives, I would prefer to have a wrong identified movie, than to identify all of them hand by hand.

 

What Emby could do about the false positives (or when in doubt) is display the error on a user friendly log, so the user can see what Emby had doubts or movies not identified.

 

But until then I'll have to manually do it. 

[ebr 16185]

Well, since I'm going to start using Emby, I decided to Identify all movies (one by one), however, here are my pennies worth on this subject. The organization itself, meaning folder structure, shouldn't have anything to do with the automatic identification of the movies. What should matter is the actual filename,

 

The problem with that is, when you rip your own movies from optical media - most of the time what you end up with is a folder named for the movie with a single video in it called "title01.mkv" or such.  We need to continue to support that.