New to EMby

[bretswinney 22]

I am new to Emby. Trying it out for a month to decide if I want to move from Plex.  I am having a few issues that I am hoping someone can help with.

 

1. Sync my watched data

2. Getting a scan to recognize my files. It adds the shows info but it says that there are no files available.

3. New data Emby is putting in my folders is making my Plex scanner go crazy.

4. Live TV data not loading at all.

 

Any help with these issue would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

Bret

[paulsalter 84]

Hi

 

1, Best option for this is to use the Trakt plugin, this stores your watched state on the Trakt website (can be made totally private if you wish), this will then sync the watched state between Emby & Plex

 

3, Emby stores metadata inside the folders with your files (not sure if this is the default or not), after initially setting up Emby it will cause Plex to constantly scan as it thinks changes are being made, after everything is running and scanned this should settle down

 

Not sure on the other points

[Luke 42077]

Saving metadata into media folders is off by default, in case that helps.

[Luke 42077]

What have you done to setup live TV?

[bretswinney 22]

Saving metadata into media folders is off by default, in case that helps.

This has now been turned off on all libraries

[Carlo 4560]

This has now been turned off on all libraries

Honestly I think you'll like Emby better than Plex.  Assuming that premise:

 

1) As mentioned, install the Trackt plugin for plex (manually since they removed plugins) and do an export or sync.  Install the Trakt plugin for Emby and do an import or sync.  This will keep both system synced on your watch status.

 

2) Need more info to understand what your specific issue is.  Can you elaborate more on what #2 means?

 

3) I'd turn the option back on and allow Emby to store this data with the media.

What you can do is change your Plex options so it's not updating the libraries on every new file change or addition.  Just let Plex scan once or twice a day using a schedule.  Once Emby is done adding all the meta-data you can turn this option back on in Plex.  Sort of getting past the "hump" of the initial Emby load of data.

 

4) We need more info to understand how far you got.  What tuner(s) do you have and what guide did you select?

 

What platform are you running Emby server on?  Windows, NAS, etc?

Are you running Plex on this same system?  (they will run fine on the same box)

What clients do you have (i.e. Android TV, Roku, etc?

[bretswinney 22]

 

Nothing under seasons like this one but they are on the computer

[bretswinney 22]

Honestly I think you'll like Emby better than Plex.  Assuming that premise:

 

1) As mentioned, install the Trackt plugin for plex (manually since they removed plugins) and do an export or sync.  Install the Trakt plugin for Emby and do an import or sync.  This will keep both system synced on your watch status.  I have done this I believe but not sure its working

 

2) Need more info to understand what your specific issue is.  Can you elaborate more on what #2 means?  See post above

 

3) I'd turn the option back on and allow Emby to store this data with the media.

What you can do is change your Plex options so it's not updating the libraries on every new file change or addition.  Just let Plex scan once or twice a day using a schedule.  Once Emby is done adding all the meta-data you can turn this option back on in Plex.  Sort of getting past the "hump" of the initial Emby load of data.  Just seems like its only getting partial info & scanning freezes

 

4) We need more info to understand how far you got.  What tuner(s) do you have and what guide did you select?  I have 3 hdhomerun primes & 1 hdhomerun quatro with premium tv

 

What platform are you running Emby server on?  Windows, NAS, etc? Windows 10

Are you running Plex on this same system?  (they will run fine on the same box) Yes

What clients do you have (i.e. Android TV, Roku, etc? iOS Apple TV  Fire Stick & others

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.  I do like the emby interface & alot of the feature but it just seems a little buggy the the media & finding it so far.  Hopefully it is something I am doing wrong.

 

Bret

[legallink 187]

#1 You installed the trakt plugin and provided your trakt login info to the plugin?

#2 When did you install?  It took the better part of a day and a half for my new emby install to "settle in"

#3 I'm not smart enough to answer this question.

#4 On Live TV.  Can you show a screen shot of the live tv dashboard screen?  Does it find all of your tuners?  Also, are you running a VPN or anything similar on your network or your emby computer?  Laslty, is everyone on the same subnet?

Edited January 18, 2019 by legallink

[Luke 42077]

 

Nothing under seasons like this one but they are on the computer

 

What is the folder structure for this series? Can you please go over that? Thanks.

[bretswinney 22]

[Luke 42077]

Have you completed a library scan since adding this? 

[bretswinney 22]

Yes i believe so but it seems like it just doesn’t want to finish

[Luke 42077]

I would allow the initial scan to complete and then I think it will be fine.

[bretswinney 22]

Ok how long should it take?

 

 

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[Happy2Play 9780]

Ok how long should it take?

 

 

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Everyone's system is different.  It all depends on how much media and what options are enabled per library.

 

Can you post a server log.

 

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[Luke 42077]

If you can attach the server log i can provide some tips on how to speed it up based on what features are enabled. Thanks !

[Carlo 4560]

What directory did you add to the TV Shows library?

Did you add:

G:\TV Shows

or 

G:\TV Shows\BK Shows

???

[Carlo 4560]

Provide a screen shot or two of your Tuner/Guide setup in Emby so we can look at that as well.

[bretswinney 22]

What directory did you add to the TV Shows library?

Did you add:

G:\TV Shows

or

G:\TV Shows\BK Shows

???

BK Shows

 

 

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[bretswinney 22]

Provide a screen shot or two of your Tuner/Guide setup in Emby so we can look at that as well.

 

 

 

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[bretswinney 22]

Scan media library failed: Operations that change non-concurrent collections must have exclusive access. A concurrent update was performed on this collection and corrupted its state. The collection's state is no longer correct.

at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.FindEntry(TKey key)
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.TryGetValue(TKey key, TValue& value)
at Emby.Server.Implementations.EntryPoints.LibraryChangedNotifier._providerManager_RefreshProgress(Object sender, GenericEventArgs`1 e)
at MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager.ProviderManager.OnRefreshStart(BaseItem item)
at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.Folder.ValidateChildrenInternal(IProgress`1 progress, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Boolean recursive, Boolean refreshChildMetadata, MetadataRefreshOptions refreshOptions, IDirectoryService directoryService)
at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.Folder.ValidateSubFolders(BaseItem[] children, IDirectoryService directoryService, IProgress`1 progress, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.Folder.ValidateChildrenInternal(IProgress`1 progress, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Boolean recursive, Boolean refreshChildMetadata, MetadataRefreshOptions refreshOptions, IDirectoryService directoryService)
at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.PerformLibraryValidation(IProgress`1 progress, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.ValidateMediaLibraryInternal(IProgress`1 progress, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.ScheduledTaskWorker.ExecuteInternal(TaskOptions options)

Edited January 19, 2019 by bretswinney

[Luke 42077]

Can you please attach the emby server log? Thanks.

[bretswinney 22]

Can you please attach the emby server log? Thanks.

 

 

Done.  Thanks for helping!

embyserver.txt

Edited January 19, 2019 by bretswinney

[bretswinney 22]

 

 

 

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Guide issue was resolved with manual mapping

Edited January 19, 2019 by bretswinney