Emby doesn’t pick up all files

[leon123456789 3]

Hi guys.

 

I have my Emby running inside a docker container. It works fine.

I have created some libraries with videos in it. It works fine.

I have added videos (long time ago) and emby did pick up them nicely.

 

But recently when I add files then wont get found by emby. I named the videos matching to the content, something like “seriesname_season1_episode1”, so that emby can find the metadata for it. But still, emby does not show me the files, even when I scan the library or restart the docker container.

 

I hope someone can help me

Thanks!

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Thanks.

[mastrmind11 722]

Hi guys.

 

I have my Emby running inside a docker container. It works fine.

I have created some libraries with videos in it. It works fine.

I have added videos (long time ago) and emby did pick up them nicely.

 

But recently when I add files then wont get found by emby. I named the videos matching to the content, something like “seriesname_season1_episode1”, so that emby can find the metadata for it. But still, emby does not show me the files, even when I scan the library or restart the docker container.

 

I hope someone can help me

Thanks!

are the file permissions correct?  compare them on a non-working file to a working one.

[leon123456789 3]

Hi guys,

 

I´m using emby with docker and nextcloud with docker. I told emby to use some of the nextcloud directories and mapped them in my docker-compose file like this:

/mainstorage/nextcloud/data/files/admin/Movies/:/mnt/movies
/mainstorage/nextcloud/data/files/admin/Music/:/mnt/music

Then i copied files in the nextcloud directory, changed the permissions from root to www-data (the nextcloud user) and scanned the libaries in emby. No changes. I restarted the emby container (and updated it) -> no changes. Waited some days -> no changes. Even a server restart didnt fix the problem

[mastrmind11 722]

Hi guys,

 

I´m using emby with docker and nextcloud with docker. I told emby to use some of the nextcloud directories and mapped them in my docker-compose file like this:

/mainstorage/nextcloud/data/files/admin/Movies/:/mnt/movies
/mainstorage/nextcloud/data/files/admin/Music/:/mnt/music

Then i copied files in the nextcloud directory, changed the permissions from root to www-data (the nextcloud user) and scanned the libaries in emby. No changes. I restarted the emby container (and updated it) -> no changes. Waited some days -> no changes. Even a server restart didnt fix the problem

Emby needs access to them, so make sure the emby user belongs to the group that owns the files.

[leon123456789 3]

Emby needs access to them, so make sure the emby user belongs to the group that owns the files.

Because im using docker and mapp the directories in the container, i have no emby user outside my container.

The problem is, that some files that are inside the directories get deteced and others not.

 

EDIT: the permissions on all files inside the directories are the same

EDIT2: Permission example:

$ ll /mainstorage/nextcloud/data/admin/files/Movies/
...
drwxr-xr-x   5 www-data www-data           7 Apr 10  2018 WorkingMovieDirectory
drwxr-xr-x   3 www-data www-data           9 Feb  5 21:56 NotWorkingMovieDirectory
...

Edited April 11, 2019 by leon123456789

[leon123456789 3]

Is there a way to enter the emby docker container? Then I can look in the terminal if emby docker contains the files

[Luke 42078]

This may help:

http://phase2.github.io/devtools/common-tasks/ssh-into-a-container/#how-do-i-ssh-into-a-running-container

[leon123456789 3]

This may help:

http://phase2.github.io/devtools/common-tasks/ssh-into-a-container/#how-do-i-ssh-into-a-running-container

$ docker exec -i -t emby /bin/bash
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused "exec: \"/bin/bash\": stat /bin/bash: no such file or directory": unknown

But

$ docker exec -I -t emby ls /mnt/movie

works.

I can confirm that the docker container did pick up all the files. But Emby itself does not... I even thought that maybe emby has some problems with files or directories that have a space in the name, but I have files with a space that work

 

EDIT: formatting

Edited April 24, 2019 by leon123456789

[leon123456789 3]

I´ve just noticed that in an other library were the hole content missing. I removed the entire library and added it again => all files were back again in this library.

 

Then I tried it with the movie library (the library where some files are missing). I removed the library and added it again. But now are all files missing inside that movie library. I’m wondering why, because I checked that the files are there (inside the container) and when I select the path for the library, the paths from the subfolders exists.

 

Even a server restart (and container restart) didn’t fix it.

[Luke 42078]

I´ve just noticed that in an other library were the hole content missing. I removed the entire library and added it again => all files were back again in this library.

 

Then I tried it with the movie library (the library where some files are missing). I removed the library and added it again. But now are all files missing inside that movie library. I’m wondering why, because I checked that the files are there (inside the container) and when I select the path for the library, the paths from the subfolders exists.

 

Even a server restart (and container restart) didn’t fix it.

 

Hi there, how have you setup your libraries in Emby library setup?

[leon123456789 3]

I´ve found the solution: In my docker-compose file I haven’t set the UID and GID parameter. I set them to 0 to start emby as root. Now all things are back again... But I don’t know why emby only picked up a few items before starting it as root.

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback !