Moving from plex to emby - question about library

[Veggav 9]

So the thing is, I'm considering moving from Plex to Emby but I want to ask this first. 

 

With Plex I had to organize my library in a very specific way with FileBot and it must match with perfection TheTVDB. 

If the episode doesn't match it will not show up. 

 

 

My question is this: Some TV Shows, specially cartoons like Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken have a single file with 3 segments on it and TheTVDB treats each one as a different episode. 

 

Another example is a famous TV Show named Chapolin Colorado. TheTVDB has 91 episodes and the show have 200+ episodes. 

Plex keeps trying to match the episodes and it will wrongly match the ones not present in TheTVDB.

 

 

What I would like to know with Emby is: 

Can it show episodes not present in TheTVDB  UNDER  the receptive TV Show. 

 

/Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Episode 14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv (not present on TheTVDB) 

Is it possible to make it show up under the first season of the TV Show in Emby?

 

If it just shows the filename I would be satisfied enough. 

[rbjtech 5284]

Under Advanced in the TV library settings - there is a setting called "Prefer embedded titles over filenames"

 

I've not used it myself, but probably worth having a search on the forum for it use - I believe if it can't find metadata, then it will attempt to use the embedded metadata (title in the local MKV or whatever) - which may be what you want ?  As a last resort, I think it then uses the filename.

 

To note - Emby would also have trouble matching any title without sufficient details -

 

/Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Episode 14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv 

 

It would be better for Emby (and any other PMS to be fair P**X, Kodi etc) to have it as -

 

/Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Johnny Bravo - S01E14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv 

 

but I think you are aware of this as if it's not in one of the scrapers, then it's not going to match it anyway, regardless of the correct naming convention.

Edited March 28, 2019 by rbjtech

[kanipek 230]

In my experience with this scenario - As long as the TV show in question IS identified, and a tvshow.nfo has the correct series info within it, the non-existent (tvdb) episodes will be included and a generic .nfo for each of the episodes will be created - It won't have any type of specific info in it other than the file name and artwork info (if generated), the rest of the .nfo will be blank fields, except for the audio/video fields.

 

These episodes display normally in the various Emby apps. Does that answer your question?

[siu99ss2 13]

Hi Veggav,

 

For files that contain multiple episodes you can use the multi-episode naming convention e.g. S01xE02xE03 episode name.ext

 

A full list of accepted multi-episode naming formats is available at https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV-naming

 

Hope that helps.

[rbjtech 5284]

Under Advanced in the TV library settings - there is a setting called "Prefer embedded titles over filenames"

 

I've not used it myself, but probably worth having a search on the forum for it use - I believe if it can't find metadata, then it will attempt to use the embedded metadata (title in the local MKV or whatever) - which may be what you want ?  As a last resort, I think it then uses the filename.

 

To note - Emby would also have trouble matching any title without sufficient details -

 

/Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Episode 14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv 

 

It would be better for Emby (and any other PMS to be fair P**X, Kodi etc) to have it as -

 

/Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Johnny Bravo - S01E14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv 

 

but I think you are aware of this as if it's not in one of the scrapers, then it's not going to match it anyway, regardless of the correct naming convention.

 

I've actually tested this for you (I used 2 dummy files in Seasons 1 & 2) - and surprisingly, it appears to have picked it up fine by using your original file structure 

 

ie - /Tv Shows/Johnny Bravo/Season 01/Episode 14 - Bla Bla bla.mkv 

 

Season 1 has 38 episodes (including episode 14) ..

 

Edited March 29, 2019 by rbjtech

[Luke 42086]

 

 

Can it show episodes not present in TheTVDB  UNDER  the receptive TV Show. 

 

Yes, internet metadata is not required just to get episodes to show up.

[Veggav 9]

Exactly what I wanted.

Amazing support.

 

Time to move from the past to Emby.

 

The other main reason I want it is because of Emby for Kodi.

I don't want to keep transcoding content I want native playback with Kodi compared to chromecast.

 

This will be fantastic if I can pull this off.

 

Thanks once again!

[Veggav 9]

So, started using Emby to be half happy with the result. 

 

Please, tell me there`s a way to force a show to remove metadata?

 

With Chapolin and El Chavo Del Ocho, two popular shows here, it wrongly matched a bunch of episodes, the titles have nothing  similar, and some that it did not find any correspondence are just like I wanted: showing just the file name. 

 

 

Is there a way to have the TV Show poster and just showing the file name instead of the wrong metadata?

[rbjtech 5284]

You can correct the metadata - or delete it fully if you wish - using the Meta Data Editor built into Emby.  Just remember to 'lock' the metadata - or it will get overwritten when you next do an update.

 

Alternatively, it may also be worth checking your naming of those episodes to see if it matches what thetvdb.com actually lists - it may be that you have named episodes incorrectly (or close to something else) and hence Emby is just matching those to tvdb, via the series and episode number.  Do you have an example of how how you are naming these (a correct, and an incorrect one) - it could give us some clues on why it is mis-identifying them.

Edited March 31, 2019 by rbjtech