Question about my metadata settings

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[TylerV76 84]

The folder structure is probably causing it. Try re-naming the movie container folder. Time Freak (2018)\Time Freak 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 H265-d3g.mkv

 

 

​I haven't had any issues identifying HEVC files but my folders are all structured "Name Of Movie (Year)"\

 

See this page for proper folder structures: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie%20naming

Edited January 24, 2019 by TylerV76

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[PenkethBoy 2068]

The parent folder does not match the filename in your second example

 

try changing it to 

 

\\MediaStation\Media-2\Movies\Time Freak 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 H265-d3g\Time Freak 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 H265-d3g.mkv

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Posted Today, 02:33 PM

Changed it, but with no effect.
path is now:
\\MediaStation\Media-2\Movies\Time Freak 2018 10bit hevc-d3g\Time Freak 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 H265-d3g.mkv

 

Thats not the path i suggested

 

But as you have "randomly" named folders and files which do not conform to the Movie Naming Wiki then you will always get these types of miss identify situations

 

I doubt it has anything to do with x265 - more how emby tries to identify your movie with those folder\filename combos - and sometimes fails

 

May be upgrade your process to rename the files and folders to give emby a better chance to identify them correctly

 

[ebr 16177]

Hi.  Those folder names don't really follow our supported conventions.  Try:

 

Time Freak (2018)

 

As the folder name (and you can have whatever you want as the file name as long as you don't need multiple versions).

[TylerV76 84]

@TylerV76

 

I've tried your approach, and this actually did work.. Movie was identified with the folder renamed.

\\MediaStation\Media-2\Movies\Time Freak 2018\Time Freak 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 H265-d3g.mkv 

 

I thought Emby first checks the filename and then checks the folder? I still want to fix this because in my automated download>transfer proces it doesn't rename files/folders. And i'm still confused why Emby manages to do this perfectly with evenly named 264 content.

 

 

 

 

Emby checks the folder first and I believe has for a while. 

 

Look at your 264 folder name, "Snitch.2013.1080p.BluRay.x264-AN0NYM0US". See the periods between the name and year? Emby can search that. The 265 files have spaces and Emby cant search that. Rename the 265 folder to "Time.Freak.2018.10bit.hevc-d3g" Emby will probably find that although that is still not a proper way to structure your folders. 

 

Also, when renaming them the proper way, put the year in parentheses. Time Freak (2018)

Edited January 24, 2019 by TylerV76

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[ebr 16177]

Perhaps your other items have/had existing metadata along side them that identifies them?

 

If you aren't following our naming conventions, then the identification will be hit or miss.

[TylerV76 84]

If Emby has trouble identifying a file named like this "White Boy Rick 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 Multi H265-d3g.mkv" how come it finds the movie perfectly when I manually identify the movie by searching the name "White Boy Rick 2018 BluRay 10Bit 1080p DD5.1 Multi H265-d3g.mkv"

 

I have 800 movies in my library ( either h264 or older ).. none follow the naming convention. Say that 95% of those all identified perfectly without my interference. Yet ALL 265 that i've downloaded so far fail to do so..  obviously it's not the file format that's causing this, but something is messing with Emby's search algorithm, no?

 

 

Which tools would you recommend for folder organisation for new files but also in retrospect? Is it possible to automate this proces for existing libraries?

 

 

 

 

This is just a guess but it finds it when you "identify" because there you are being given options to correctly identify the movie. When it does it automatically it is looking for exact matches because its not giving you a choice and wants to properly name them.

 

@@ebr, will the auto organize plug-in automatically rename his folders after it has found the metadata properly? Ive never used it so not sure.

 

Otherwise, Im doubting there is anything to change the names all at once because they are all drastically different. Its not like the names are proper anywhere for something like the "Bulk Rename Utility" to pull from. 

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Filebot would be a good thing to try as it looks up metadata and can do folders as well as filenames

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[TylerV76 84]

Filebot would be a good thing to try as it looks up metadata and can do folders as well as filenames

 

 

 

Just came back to mention filebot. I wonder if it or anything can scrape the nfo files in the directory and use that to rename all the folders. 

 

I went through this a year or so ago and couldn't get anything to run it properly so I had to go one by one and rename ever folder. Then I used Bulk Rename Utility to append the file name to match the folder name. Took some time but now its much easier to stay on top of. 

[TylerV76 84]

Exactly my thought.. bulk rename would be nice, but is probably difficult. Folder names have been like this since forever Back in the day when we loaded our drives on LAN parties over DC++ I didn't really care about folder naming conventions hehe, didn't use a NAS/Mediaserver back then. I have no objection to start now if I can find decent tools for that.

 

I use File Juggler to monitor a folder and transfer movies to my NAS when the download is complete, but I can only manipulate folder and filenames by adding variables such as "date added, date created, file type, file extension, file name etc"

 

I download remotely by letting Deluge (torrent) watch a folder that I have synced with dropbox, so any torrent added is downloaded automatically. So.. I don't know how to update my current setup. I've tried Sonarr/Radarr but I can't get it to work with private torrent trackers ( and my IT knowledge is limited )

 

 

Unless someone has an answer one way or another, I would personally install the auto organize plugin and see if there's an option in there for it. Something like what iTunes does when you add music if you select "organize my library". It takes the metadata and creates a folder for the artist, then the album then each song. Thats what you need here. 

[TylerV76 84]

This thread got me curious and I found this. Have a read and see if this guys methods would work for you.

 

https://medium.com/the-techglider/organizing-a-messed-up-movie-collection-dc17ec4e9435

[Kwin 3]

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Edited April 23, 2019 by quintox

[One2Go 120]

Just my experience with folder naming. ALL my movie folders follow the recommended naming "Movie Name (YYYY)" it has served me well as the meta data fetchers rely upon a clean none obfuscated name following an established convention. Sometimes I change it to "Movie Name, The (YYYY)" because I don't want it to be sorted by "The" or "A" in an file explorer view as I browse the libraries. The naming convention is absolutely necessary to follow as sometimes theTVDB or theMovieDB do not identify it correctly. Sometimes with theTVDB I had to manually enter their series ID to get the correct metadata.

Edited January 24, 2019 by One2Go

[TylerV76 84]

I've tried auto organise in the past but never got it working as intended.. either I didn't get it, or it was buggy, or it doesn't work as I thought it would?

 

It doesn't really automatically do anything, I have to manually press the "Organize" button.. what am I missing here?

So.. I tried to re-send one of the files that were blue ( skipped ) in the hope that it'd transfer again but this time with the right convention ( Auto organise: %mn (%my)\%fn.%ext ) but after loading for 30sec I got the popup saying "Not allowed".

 

When I look at the activity log, the movie that said 'not allowed' is now marked as completed, but the folder structure is still exactly the same. It feels like it's a plugin with a lot of potential, but just falls short somehow..

 

One more thing I'm confussed about tho:

How come it failed to identify Gladiator. I didn't have the year in the name, but surely the folder named "Gladiator" with a file inside named "Gladiator (2000) 10th Anniversary Edition REMASTERED Extended 1080p BRRip x265 (HEVC) DTS-HD MA 5.1 - MaryJane"  would lead to a positive hit? I can't wrap my head arround how that doesn't get identified while a movie like this:  "The Hobbit And Unexpected Journey 720p\the.hobbit.an.unexpected.journey.2012.720p.bluray.x264-sparks.mkv" is ( it even has grammar issues in its name ).

 

 

 

Probably just the inconsistency in folder names. Honestly, this is why the folder structure is so important. I get why you have them like that, for automation purposes, but it really is going to cause more headache and time to fix it then to change them properly from the get go. It sucks but it really is a lot less headache. Plus you can almost guarantee it will work properly with any software you use.

 

I typically place any ripped media into a folder named "Convert". In there I change folder names and file names to match then open Media Companion to grab a trailer. Once that's done I move them to my Movies folder and Emby handles grabbing the artwork, subs and creating an nfo. At first it seems like alot but you get used to it and it moves very quickly.

Edited January 24, 2019 by TylerV76

[Luke 42078]

Please make sure you're also running the latest version of emby server. thanks.

[Kwin 3]

Server is fully up to date. 4.0.1 was deployed 4 days ago.

Anyways, I sort of 'fixed' the problem. In File Juggler I can transfer files by creating a target folder with the same name as the file. Since folder and file no longer differ from eachother, Emby has been able to identify movies correctly again. Unfortunately File Juggler isn't able to extract metadata and create proper folder structures, it's a dumb but efficient transfer program.

@@tyler
I've tried FileBot yesterday ( Renamer doesn't work on Win10 anymore ), but for some reason I don't get how it works.. instead of loading all folders and renaming the folder structure to something more efficient, it loads ALL files within folders and tries to handle them seperately..  ( SRT's with the same name would be indexed as a movie. ).

Filebot didn't seem to offer what I was looking for, without scrambling my library anyways

Edited January 25, 2019 by quintox

[Carlo 4561]

This thread got me curious and I found this. Have a read and see if this guys methods would work for you.

 

https://medium.com/the-techglider/organizing-a-messed-up-movie-collection-dc17ec4e9435

Decent overview but some things are wrong.  FileBot for example can create the folders and put the media in the folders.  You just have to configure it correctly.

 

Server is fully up to date. 4.0.1 was deployed 4 days ago.

 

Anyways, I sort of 'fixed' the problem. In File Juggler I can transfer files by creating a target folder with the same name as the file. Since folder and file no longer differ from eachother, Emby has been able to identify movies correctly again. Unfortunately File Juggler isn't able to extract metadata and create proper folder structures, it's a dumb but efficient transfer program.

 

@@tyler

I've tried FileBot yesterday ( Renamer doesn't work on Win10 anymore ), but for some reason I don't get how it works.. instead of loading all folders and renaming the folder structure to something more efficient, it loads ALL files within folders and tries to handle them seperately..  ( SRT's with the same name would be indexed as a movie. ).

 

Filebot didn't seem to offer what I was looking for, without scrambling my library anyways

Don't give up on FileBot.  Play with it more and learn the options/settings which is the key to this utility.  A whole lot of us use it and we wouldn't recommend it if it didn't work.

[da1stprince 5]

Please make sure you're also running the latest version of emby server. thanks.

what's changed in the latest version of emby that would stop the function of identifying new content? since i updated to the latest version of server, I've downloaded 4 new movies using  sonaar (which automatically renames files accordingly and places them in the proper folder sequence for you) and no metadada could be fetched for it. imdb or any other tool to identify content yields no results. just plain doesn't work. have been using emby premier since day one and have not encountered this issue

Edited January 27, 2019 by da1stprince

[Luke 42078]

what's changed in the latest version of emby that would stop the function of identifying new content? since i updated to the latest version of server, I've downloaded 4 new movies using  sonaar (which automatically renames files accordingly and places them in the proper folder sequence for you) and no metadada could be fetched for it. imdb or any other tool to identify content yields no results. just plain doesn't work. have been using emby premier since day one and have not encountered this issue

 

Hi there, we're happy to help. Please discuss an example and see how to report a problem. thanks !

[da1stprince 5]

Hi there, we're happy to help. Please discuss an example and see how to report a problem. thanks !

apologies, was just adding on to this existing topic because i have the exact problem