Music Videos Not Scanning

[GaryJSmith 1]

Hi: I installed Emby a few days ago to handle my music videos. The music videos are all in one overall folder (local to server) with 1 sub folder for each artist (total of 50 sub folders). Each artist folder has a number of music videos (a few folders only have 1 or 2 videos while others may have 10 to 15). Of the 50 folders, 18 scanned fine and the other 32 folders only had 1 item from each folder scanned as an individual music video (I believe it was only the first video in the folder). A few of the folders not fully scanned only had 1 or 2 videos in them but rest had more (usually 5 to 8 videos). 

 

All of my folders and folder contents are consistent in naming format (Music Videos/Artist Name/Artist Name - Video Name.mp4).

 

Any suggestion on what I should do to get all videos into the library and associated with the folder they are contained in. (which I can set up with artist info through metadata).

 

I have over 300 music videos and do not want to have to change file structure. I am migrating from Plex (if I can get music videos to work). I has all the music videos in Plex with this format and everything worked fine.

 

Any suggestions? I can add the original scan log file if it is needed.

[Luke 42096]

Hi, can you go over some specific examples? Thanks.

[GaryJSmith 1]

Hi: I have attached a screen shot of the folder for Ariana Grande music videos. When I scanned the library, only the first item (Everyday) was included as a single music video (not in a folder). Same thing happened for many other folders.

 

About an hour ago, I copied some additional content to the Ariana folder and after re-scanning the folder, all content (new and old) showed up. I tried this for a second folder and same thing happened.

 

I then deleted the new content I added in the Emby folders (which deleted in the Emby library and the 2 windows folders). The folder view in Emby was removed and reverted back to where I started.

 

Hope this additional info helps. Let me know if you would like any other screen shots or other info.

[Guest asrequested]

Probably because they are all named the same, the artist. Try removing the artist name from one video, rescan, and see if it changes. 

[GaryJSmith 1]

Hi: I removed the artist name on the second video in three different folders. I then re-scanned the library and folder views showed up for all three folders. All 3 folders had 5 or more videos and I only changed the name for the second video but all videos in the folder were displayed in Emby. I then went back and put the artist name on the video in one of the three folders and re-scanned. That folder was no longer in Emby and reverted back to only the first video from that folder.

 

Strange and interesting behavior. This could be a temporary work around for me but I don't think this should be the final solution.

[Guest asrequested]

Yeah, it's been brought up several times. I have the same problem. You could also try putting the artist name in brackets. Anything in brackets should be ignored.

[GaryJSmith 1]

Hi: I tried the brackets around the artist name and it worked out well (as you said). Not sure how to close this item as I will use the workarounds mentioned. Perhaps this will be fixed properly in a future release.