Any way to scan and update metadata people images?

[aslaksonal 0]

When a new movie is added to a library, Emby will create a link to an actor's thumbnail, usually at tmdb.com. But it never then seems to convert that link to one that points to a thumb in the metadata library. I can do it manually by resaving the metadata for the individual actors and then for the entire movie, but it's a royal pain to do that for a whole library, one movie at a time. Any way to automate that process?

 

Background: Three times now I've had the Emby server crash and not be able to restart. I've done a reinstall, but the reinstall doesn't seem to find the original database, so it builds a new one, apparently orphaning any existing thumbs in the old metadata folders. Maybe I've done the reinstall improperly . . . but the issue remains that all those actor thumb links are now pointing to places on the internet rather than local files. On my metered cellular data connection, every byte counts. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

 

al

[Luke 42079]

 

 

But it never then seems to convert that link to one that points to a thumb in the metadata library. 

Hi, yes it does, as soon as you view that person, it will be downloaded by Emby Server, and then all subsequent requests will come from the downloaded version.

[Pog22 52]

Hey Luke any chance of making the people image bigger in the Android mobile app. When you click into a person it should be the showcase the full size taking up most of the viewing space. See what i mean in this screenshot

 

[Luke 42079]

Yes that needs to be improved, thanks.

[aslaksonal 0]

Hi, yes it does, as soon as you view that person, it will be downloaded by Emby Server, and then all subsequent requests will come from the downloaded version.

No way to automate that? . . . sweep thru the database and download them all as necessary? Make it one of the scheduled tasks? With 1100 movies, it's a pretty daunting task. Hate to think about 7600 TV shows and episodes.

 

al

Edited April 20, 2019 by aslaksonal

[pünktchen 1409]

No way to automate that? . . . sweep thru the database and download them all as necessary? Make it one of the scheduled tasks? With 1100 movies, it's a pretty daunting task. Hate to think about 7600 TV shows and episodes.

 

al

Let's say every movie or episode has 10 people - that would be 87000 requests to the provider just for your library. Now take all the other Emby users into account, then you know why they aren't doing this.

[aslaksonal 0]

Let's say every movie or episode has 10 people - that would be 87000 requests to the provider just for your library. Now take all the other Emby users into account, then you know why they aren't doing this.

True - but it would be just once for that quantity per user. Thereafter, the requests would be much more modest - just looking for the new people added for new media.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes to me there is a big issue when it comes to existing images in \metadata\people as a new installation does not use this information.  But with the amount of people in ones collection there is no easy way to update people (200,000+).

 

Lots of discussion here.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/63331-how-to-backup-people-images-with-beta-going-onwards/