people images

[kingy444 117]

i noticed alot of my images were 'poor' quality and wanted to just do a full refresh (i recently did the same for all media items metadata)

 

i renamed the 'people' folder in the metadata path, rescanned etc, and the folder was recreated but no content downloaded

 

i rebrowsed the library and i see that some people are still appearing (cache?)

 

whats correct process to redownload all people?

[Luke 42079]

Refresh the metadata of the media that contains those people.

[kingy444 117]

so essentially if i recently did just that - and also ticked the 'replace existing images' the people images should also have been updated anyway?

 

or do they only update if missing in that circumstance? 

[kingy444 117]

Refresh the metadata of the media that contains those people.

 

It appears they are 'poor' because they are landscaped 'folder.jpg' rather than the newer 'poster.jpg' created when using 'edit images'

 

so far running a refresh metadata has not brought down the new images - tried both replace all metadata and search for missing metadata

 

i dont want to replace all images for the tv series etc aswell as it was quite a task to get the images i liked, consistency etc

 

is there an api way or similiar to refresh just actors, crew, etc?

Was thinking along the lines of calling all series etc, getting the id for each actor, then using that with the /item/refresh call?

[Luke 42079]

 

 

so far running a refresh metadata has not brought down the new images - tried both replace all metadata and search for missing metadata

 

Check the metadata settings for your library. If you've disabled metadata providers for your media, then this will also affect people as well.

[kingy444 117]

Check the metadata settings for your library. If you've disabled metadata providers for your media, then this will also affect people as well.

 

Nope - i have pretty much all metadata providers turned on for everything

 

If i go 'edit images' and manually download a new image for an actor it places it in the metadata directory as you described

 

is it possible that because the items are 'cached' emby still thinks they are there?

ie. even though i moved the folder contents - i can still see the images in the ui

[Luke 42079]

I'm guessing you customized something and if anything we're just guilty of allowing too many options that create scenarios we haven't tested.

 

At this point, please discuss an example and see how to report a problem. thanks.

[kingy444 117]

I'm guessing you customized something and if anything we're just guilty of allowing too many options that create scenarios we haven't tested.

 

At this point, please discuss an example and see how to report a problem. thanks.

 

I've been tailing the log and all i can see is a search for metadata - no image checks on actors

 

the only thing i could call 'custom' in this space is the 'IMDB People Downloader' but I thought all it did was place an image in the directory - if i have cleared the directory contents, where is emby pulling the images from

[Luke 42079]

In order for me to be able to assist you I will need the information requested. Thanks.

[kingy444 117]

In order for me to be able to assist you I will need the information requested. Thanks.

 

See attached log

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42079]

What exactly did you refresh, and from what screen?

[kingy444 117]

What exactly did you refresh, and from what screen?

 

The top level of a library (main screen) - one containing approx 30 movies so it wouldnt take as long

 

I have also tried with library items directly

 

File not founds are obviously because i renamed the directory - but the new people images dont appear to be coming down.

 

I've tried refreshing with the 'Refresh All Metadata' and 'Search for missing metadata' (with and without the replace images checked) - i really just want to update the library so i only have portrait images for actors.

[Luke 42079]

Can you try it from emby library setup by clicking the 3-dot menu on a library? thanks.

[Happy2Play 9780]

tested on test machine with small library on current beta server.

 

I had to nuke the cache folder for people images to redownload.

 

Steps taken

deleted all People sub-folders

scan library (cached people images existed on all series and Movies via UI, but broken image at actor/person view)

Tried Refreshing all /with replace images at series level and actor level not change (also library level Home Screen and Library setup).

nuked cache sub-folders and people folder was repopulated during the Refresh.

 

 

But none of the people pulled any metadata, only images.  Correction, none to the TV Series got metadata, all movies got metadata and images for People.

[kingy444 117]

tested on test machine with small library on current beta server.

 

I had to nuke the cache folder for people images to redownload.

 

Steps taken

deleted all People sub-folders

scan library (cached people images existed on all series and Movies via UI, but broken image at actor/person view)

Tried Refreshing all /with replace images at series level and actor level not change (also library level Home Screen and Library setup).

nuked cache sub-folders and people folder was repopulated during the Refresh.

 

 

But none of the people pulled any metadata, only images.  Correction, none to the TV Series got metadata, all movies got metadata and images for People.

 

mich better description than i have managed though essentially you have done exactly as i have

 

i havent deleted the cache as i didnt want to have to rebuild it all, were there particular folders you blew away?

 

@@Luke

with all metadata providers enabled would you expect people metadata for tv to redownload aswell?

[Luke 42079]

Yes I would, but you shouldn't have to delete any folders manually.

[kingy444 117]

Yes I would, but you shouldn't have to delete any folders manually.

 

Just thought i would give this a crack on the latest release - still having the same issue.

 

If i need to blow away cache directories to fix this - is there something more direct i could do (certain subfolders) rather than destroying the whole thing?

[Luke 42079]

I would just refresh the media that contains the people.

[kingy444 117]

I would just refresh the media that contains the people.

 

Doing so without blowing away the cache has no effect.

 

Essentially removing all contents of the 'Emby-Server\metadata\People' folder so all people can refresh - but the people data never gets redownloaded.

 

@@Happy2Play described the process pretty accurately above

[Luke 42079]

Ok then do his steps, and next time I would just leave the People folder alone rather than deleting it.

[kingy444 117]

Ok then do his steps, and next time I would just leave the People folder alone rather than deleting it.

 

I havent actually deleted it - its just renamed so i can roll back as i did last time.

 

I was just wanting to refresh people data as IMDB People Downloader made a bit of a mess of the quality

 

Do I have to blow away the entire cache and cant just do specific people?

 

This line from @@Happy2Play was somewhat concerning if taking the deletion path

But none of the people pulled any metadata, only images.  Correction, none to the TV Series got metadata, all movies got metadata and images for People.

[kingy444 117]

@@Luke - I guess i will just start from scratch then as a way to clear the library mess

 

I have two additional questions:

1. There are 'Series Image Fetchers' and 'Season Image Fetchers' and even 'Movie Image Fetchers'
   I assume that the actor image preference is basing off these same settings? Is there any way to specify an order preference for Actor images
2. In order to rebuild the cache of Actors is there a special url I could hit to display all actors - therefore not needing to access each individual item
   I understand this is no longer part of the GUI, but i assume the code was not actually deleted?

[Luke 42079]

For #1 - Yes, and no.

 

#2 - I don't really understand, sorry.

[kingy444 117]

For #1 - Yes, and no.

 

#2 - I don't really understand, sorry.

 

for #1 i guess i can temporarily change my tv preferences to the moviedb and change back after rebuilding actor images

 

for #2 - i am asking if there is a way for me to display all actors in my entire emby database, not per movie. I believe this was removed from the GUI but hoping either the code still has a special entry there so i could manually hit something like http://emby:8096/web/index.html#!/itemdetails.html?page=actors

Would it even be possible to simply find the relative html page in the github repository and manually roll that file back temporarily?

[Luke 42079]

There currently is no way. The old html will not work anymore.