fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Since the 4.0.0.2 update and rescan every movie has a date added listed as today. Is my only option to manually update that field based on the file date? Or is there a plugin that will rescan and correct all that data? I know there's the option under Library | Advanced for the Date Added Behavior, but rescanning after changing the setting doesn't seem to do anything. I always always happy with the setting set to date scanned into library, but didn't expect the rescan to reset everything. For whatever reason, television shows did not get reset.
Luke 42081 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 I apologize for this. It was a major update, and if you had changed the date added behavior, then that's why this happened.
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 Isn't date scanned the default? That's what I had. My question is now, how do I fix it? Now that they're all set, changing the setting to file date isn't causing a refresh.
Luke 42081 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 No, the default is to use the date created timestamp of the files. You could set it back to default, remove the library from Emby, run a full scan, then add the library back.
neush1 1 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 No, the default is to use the date created timestamp of the files. You could set it back to default, remove the library from Emby, run a full scan, then add the library back. Same thing happened to mine and I've never touched that setting. Though to be fair I am running a Docker container so perhaps it was configured that way at some point? Luke, doing what you propose above will bring these back in with the dates the files were added to the library? I just want to confirm before I take what seems like a drastic step. How does it know when these were originally added? Thanks!
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 Hmm, part of this is on-topic and part off, but maybe related. I have movie.xml files in most of my movie folders. I've been running Emby for a long time though. Are those just a throwback to an older time and aren't being read anymore during a rescan? Because I see the date added contained in them. The part off-topic is related to the movie.xml files, for some reason, some movies that were in my libraries are no longer identified with the rescan, but they also have movie.xml files in them. Again, if those were read, I would have my movies identified. What's super bizarre though is I have some unidentified movies that have .nfo files (which I thought were definitely the currently supported format). The .nfo file has all the proper info for the movie... but it doesn't show up in the server anywhere? Are any external files being read?
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 Oh, and interesting tidbit. Every single movie that didn't reidentify has the version dropdown showing with the exact same thing listed in both versions. I checked with MediaInfo and there's only one video and audio contained in the container, yet in Emby if I scroll down I have this "Split Versions Apart" button showing. Bug in the file detection also causing a problem getting through identification?
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 No, the default is to use the date created timestamp of the files. You could set it back to default, remove the library from Emby, run a full scan, then add the library back. I'm considering that, but if I remove/readd the library, does that mean I lose all the "watched" status for my users for all those items?
tman 47 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Can confirm since v4, all my 'latest movies' list is now shot. Whatever the rescan has done, it's added them back in an order that I haven't changed.
Luke 42081 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 I'm considering that, but if I remove/readd the library, does that mean I lose all the "watched" status for my users for all those items? Assuming the provider ids (tmdb/imdb) stay intact, then no you should not. 1
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) Assuming the provider ids (tmdb/imdb) stay intact, then no you should not. Tested with a single folder of a multi-folder library and you're right, it kept the watched status. Somehow even on a movie that it couldn't even auto-identify?! Maybe I'll take this time to drop the libraries and recreate them with that new folder-based access control in the patch notes. Edited January 17, 2019 by fraenhawk
Luke 42081 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Somehow even on a movie that it couldn't even auto-identify?! That could be due to either local metadata or just improved use of metadata providers.
Luke 42081 Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Hmm, part of this is on-topic and part off, but maybe related. I have movie.xml files in most of my movie folders. I've been running Emby for a long time though. Are those just a throwback to an older time and aren't being read anymore during a rescan? Because I see the date added contained in them. The part off-topic is related to the movie.xml files, for some reason, some movies that were in my libraries are no longer identified with the rescan, but they also have movie.xml files in them. Again, if those were read, I would have my movies identified. What's super bizarre though is I have some unidentified movies that have .nfo files (which I thought were definitely the currently supported format). The .nfo file has all the proper info for the movie... but it doesn't show up in the server anywhere? Are any external files being read? You would need to use the xml plugin if you want to utilize xml metadata files. Nfo is our default format now and has been for several years.
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 18, 2019 Author Posted January 18, 2019 You would need to use the xml plugin if you want to utilize xml metadata files. Nfo is our default format now and has been for several years. Okay, I figured the xml was from a bygone era. That there's a plugin to read them is good news. Although I took your advice from earlier in the thread and just readded the folders to my library instead and that worked. It still makes me wonder why for the movies that did have an .nfo file in the folder, why they were showing up as unidentified after multiple scans. Is there some logic that says "I'm already in the database so don't read from the NFO file anymore?" Are nfo files purely for backup/recovery (first scan) and never read from after initial scan (only written to)?
fraenhawk 61 Posted January 18, 2019 Author Posted January 18, 2019 Oh, and interesting tidbit. Every single movie that didn't reidentify has the version dropdown showing with the exact same thing listed in both versions. I checked with MediaInfo and there's only one video and audio contained in the container, yet in Emby if I scroll down I have this "Split Versions Apart" button showing. Bug in the file detection also causing a problem getting through identification? @@Luke Not sure if this means anything to you, maybe it will help you identify an issue others might run into, but I did go ahead and remove my kids movie folders from the separate library and merged them into my main Movies library so I could take advantage of the new folder-level access controls. When the scan of those folders occurred on in their new library none of the movies that had previously had the double video versions were doubled again. Sounds like something went wrong on the initial post-upgrade scan that only completely removing them from the library could solve. Also, all of them auto-identified instead of just showing up as the filename again.
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