Grouping Movies (Multi-Version)

[dual-o 19]

Hello Emby Team,

 

I found a bug in 4.0.1.0. When I group a movie with two quality versions all ist fine.

But when I join the movie to a collection it will be shown in the collection but outside the collection too.

I think one or two pictures will explain it better.

 

 

Show movies in collections view-setting is allowed

[Luke 42077]

@@Happy2Play can you reproduce?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

This doesn't happen when you have two different editions.  I don't keep different quality copies so can't test that angle.

[dual-o 19]

This doesn't happen when you have two different editions.  I don't keep different quality copies so can't test that angle.

 

Yes of course. It only happens with "grouped-movies"

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Yes of course. It only happens with "grouped-movies"

 

Different editions also group like different quality settings.  Seemed worth checking.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Hello Emby Team,

 

I found a bug in 4.0.1.0. When I group a movie with two quality versions all ist fine.

But when I join the movie to a collection it will be shown in the collection but outside the collection too.

I think one or two pictures will explain it better.

 

1.jpg2.jpg3.jpg4.jpg

 

Show movies in collections view-setting is allowed

5.jpg

 

Can you break this down for this example with exact folder structure and steps used.  So I can verify I am not doing something different.

 

 

 

@@Happy2Play can you reproduce?

 

If the steps I took are the same, then yes manually grouped versions appear in Collection and in list in both stable and beta.

[dual-o 19]

Can you break this down for this example with exact folder structure and steps used.  So I can verify I am not doing something different.

 

No problem.

Folderstructure:

movies/Spider-Man/The Amazing Spider-Man/

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2012.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-FuN.mkv

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2012.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-FuN.nfo

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2012.German.AC3.DL.2160p.UHD.BluRay.HDR.HEVC.Remux-NIMA4K.mkv

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2012.German.AC3.DL.2160p.UHD.BluRay.HDR.HEVC.Remux-NIMA4K.nfo

movies/Spider-Man/The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Rise of Electro/

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2.Rise.of.Electro.2014.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-FuN.mkv

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2.Rise.of.Electro.2014.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-FuN.nfo

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2.Rise.of.Electro.2014.German.Dubbed.DTSHD.DL.2160p.UHD.BluRay.HDR.HEVC.Remux-NIMA4K.mkv

The.Amazing.Spider-Man.2.Rise.of.Electro.2014.German.Dubbed.DTSHD.DL.2160p.UHD.BluRay.HDR.HEVC.Remux-NIMA4K.nfo

 

 

Steps:

1. scan for DB Update
2. Shows me 2x "The Amazing Spider-Man" and 2x "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Rise of Electro"
3. Mark each pair and set group movie
4. Shows me 1x "The Amazing Spider-Man" and 1x "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Rise of Electro"
5. Go to Server Settings -> Plugins -> Movie Collection Plugin -> Refresh

   When I mark the two movies and go to "add to collection" I got the same Issue

 

So as you can see I grouped manually. Can I realize automatic movie grouping with my Setup/Nameconvention?

 

Thanks for your help

Edited January 28, 2019 by dual-o

[Luke 42077]

@@dual-o, no, for automatic grouping you need to follow the guidelines in our multi-version naming guidelines. thanks !

[dual-o 19]

@@dual-o, no, for automatic grouping you need to follow the guidelines in our multi-version naming guidelines. thanks !

 

ok, thanks for advice. I will continue to group manually.

But, would be great when grouping and collections work in combination.

[Carlo 4560]

You should rename your files properly to end this type of issue.  It's should be easier to rename them outside of Emby before adding them, then to group them in Emby after the fact!

[Mccluney 0]

Is there a tutorial on what the proper names for files look like btw?

[Carlo 4560]

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie-naming

[dual-o 19]

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie-naming

 

@@Luke is it possible to implement " - " und ".-." ?

[PenkethBoy 2068]

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Edited February 3, 2019 by PenkethBoy

[Luke 42077]

@@Luke is it possible to implement " - " und ".-." ?

 

It's something we can continue to improve, yes. The challenge though is avoiding false positives.

[dual-o 19]

It's something we can continue to improve, yes. The challenge though is avoiding false positives.

 

For TV Series it works fantastic with my name convention.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the info.

[dual-o 19]

Hello,

 

do you have any updates with the this issue?

when i grouped manual the movies won't be added to the collection.

This is annoying when i get through my collections.

 

do you have any advices to workaround without renaming movie-files?

My Idea is an button you can configure that the scrapper searches for the foler name and group automatically all files inside that folder.

movies
  MyMovieCollection
    > MyMovie.1 (2019)
      > my.movie.1080p.mkv
      > my.movie.DolbyVision.2160p.mp4
      > my.movie.1080p.extended.edition.mkv
    > MyMovie.2 (2019)
      > my.movie.2.next.1080p.mkv
      > my.movie.2.next.DolbyVision.2160p.mp4
      > my.movie.2.next.1080p.extended.edition.mkv
  JustAnotherMovie (2017)
    > myothermovie.1080p.mkv
    > myothermovie.480p.uncut.avi

thanks for all the work.

[Luke 42077]

@@dual-o, what exactly is your issue?

[dual-o 19]

my movies are organized like this

 

movies
  MyMovieCollection
    > MyMovie.1 (2019)
      > my.movie.1080p.mkv
      > my.movie.DolbyVision.2160p.mp4
      > my.movie.1080p.extended.edition.mkv
    > MyMovie.2 (2019)
      > my.movie.2.next.1080p.mkv
      > my.movie.2.next.DolbyVision.2160p.mp4
      > my.movie.2.next.1080p.extended.edition.mkv
  JustAnotherMovie (2017)
    > myothermovie.1080p.mkv
    > myothermovie.480p.uncut.avi

 

with this naming convention the movies won't be grouped by versions. So I do this manually over the menu (mark all multiple scanned movies and set "group version")

the issue is that this grouped movie isn't shown in collections. Not even when I set collection manually.

Since release 4.0.1.0 I have only "single version" movies collected in my collections.

 

 

 

here an other example

 

Edited March 3, 2019 by dual-o

[Deathsquirrel 745]

with this naming convention the movies won't be grouped by versions. So I do this manually over the menu (mark all multiple scanned movies and set "group version")

the issue is that this grouped movie isn't shown in collections. Not even when I set collection manually.

Since release 4.0.1.0 I have only "single version" movies collected in my collections.

 

You are not following the published naming convention for multiple versions in a single folder.  I'm not having any trouble adding movies with multiple versions to collections on movies that do follow the published guidelines.

 

You can see the naming wiki at https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie-naming.

[dual-o 19]

You are not following the published naming convention for multiple versions in a single folder.  I'm not having any trouble adding movies with multiple versions to collections on movies that do follow the published guidelines.

 

You can see the naming wiki at https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie-naming.

 

I named the movies like the release-name to distinguish the diffrent versions. In TV-Series it worked great.

But in movies my painpoint is: Each version must begin with the folder name, followed by " - "

Would be nice to "group" movies in the same folder regardless of the filename

[Luke 42077]

I named the movies like the release-name to distinguish the diffrent versions. In TV-Series it worked great.

But in movies my painpoint is: Each version must begin with the folder name, followed by " - "

Would be nice to "group" movies in the same folder regardless of the filename

 

How would the server know if it's multi-version, multi-part, or sequential/episodic?

 

That is why the naming conventions exist so that these kinds of determinations can be made, and that groupings aren't created when they shouldn't be. Thanks for the feedback.

[swroger 6]

Sorry for the necro-post.

 

So this only occurs when the items are grouped manually ?

 

I prefer to keep the original filenames, so I group versions manually (also helpful with things like Star Wars where there's the VHS, Bluray, 4K77, etc versions).  But if I used the naming conventions I wouldn't have this issue ?

 

I considered setting up some symlinks on the file server to the original files and putting .ignore files in their directories, but it seems overkill when I can manually group them.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, if by "this" you mean what is described in the first post, then it has been resolved for the upcoming 4.2 server release.