William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 I have had major frustration with a variety of situation where the server ignores files and directories. All these examples are of TV media type libraries. First i have a library that contains a variety music show (awards shows, concerts, etc). I had a directory of American Music Awards that works fine until I believe version 4+. Then it disappeared, but the Season 1 directory within it showed up. I tried everything to modify this behavior until I finally renamed the seasons directory to "American Music Awards" and now it looks normal. Very bazaar behavior. Then I had a large concert directory (60+ entries using a Season 1 directory). All the files showed up fine until i recently added a number of Ultra Music Festival files that only 3 out of 10 files would show up. Moved them to a separate director for ultra music festival. Still would not show up. Finally added "s1e1" (incrementing episode for each file) to each file name and then they show up. Then in a different library for TV shows I had a directory for The Tonight Show. Had two files in the season directory that work just fine. I added a third file (that looked similar the two files that work) and nothing i did would make it appear. Then I copied it to a library of mixed content and it appeared. It doesn't appear to me that you have thorough enough test procedure for your releases. I like Emby a lot. It's the first media server that i thought was better then Windows Media Center where I still have a huge amount of media. But some of the problems i have encountered using Emby are maddening.
Luke 42079 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 Hi there, can you please go over an example and show us what the folder structure and file names look like? thanks !
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Posted May 6, 2019 First example: Top level directory - MusicShows/American Music Awards/Season 1/ Chaged to - MusicShows/American Music Awards/American Music Awards/ Files - 2015 American Music Awards.mkv Second Example: Top level directory - MusicShows/More Concerts/Season 1/ Changed to - MusicShows/Ultra Music Festival/ Files - Alesso - Ultra Music Festival 2019 s1e1.mkv Third example: Top level Directory - TV//The Tonight Show/Season 1/ Files - The Tonight Show - New York Special 3-25-2019.mkv
Luke 42079 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 What do you mean by top level directory? You're saying this is the folder you added to emby library setup? TV//The Tonight Show/Season 1/
Luke 42079 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 This is really the directory that you want to add: TV/ Not this: TV//The Tonight Show/Season 1/
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Posted May 6, 2019 I'm sorry. I was just showing you the complete directory structure. I added just the "TV" directory to the library.
Luke 42079 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 So looking at this example: TV//The Tonight Show/Season 1/ Can you indicate the complete contents of this season folder? thanks.
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Posted May 6, 2019 The Tonight Show - In Puerto Rico 1-15-2019.mkv The Tonight Show - New York Special 3-25-2019.mkv The Tonight Show - Super Bowl Special 2018.mkv The second files is the one that would not appear.
Luke 42079 Posted May 7, 2019 Posted May 7, 2019 Perhaps it has been merged with one of the others. If you click into the other two, is there a version section drop down on the detail screen!
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Posted May 7, 2019 I don't find anything like that. Where would the drop down be? Each episode starts playing immediately.
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Posted May 7, 2019 The metadata in the two episodes with the year of 2019 in the file name have a season of 20 and an episode of 19.
Luke 42079 Posted May 7, 2019 Posted May 7, 2019 The metadata in the two episodes with the year of 2019 in the file name have a season of 20 and an episode of 19. Ok so this is likely the issue. Years in episode file names can be problematic. Try correcting all of the season and episode numbers and then see if that makes a difference. Thanks.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted May 7, 2019 Posted May 7, 2019 I don't find anything like that. Where would the drop down be? Each episode starts playing immediately. Similar to this example
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Posted May 7, 2019 Using the LG client I see no way to bring up a detail episode screen like you show above (although I would like to).
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Posted May 7, 2019 Fixing the metadata problem caused by the year fixed the problem with the third example and is the problem with the second example as well. Because all TV media is not episodic shouldn't there be a option to control that. And why a string of numbers - I can see character sequences like s1e1.
Luke 42079 Posted May 8, 2019 Posted May 8, 2019 Hi, what do you mean by this? And why a string of numbers - I can see character sequences like s1e1.
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 8, 2019 Author Posted May 8, 2019 The fact the it is grabbing the year and using it as season/episode info. And it's not consistent. I have many file names with the year first or embedded in the file name between underscores and it ignores it.
Luke 42079 Posted May 8, 2019 Posted May 8, 2019 it's due to the fact that it has similarities with our tv naming conventions: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV-naming If you can't use the supported naming conventions, then you may want to manually edit and lock those titles. Or if it's not episodic, then you could always just use a home videos library instead of TV.
William LeDuc @gmail 2 Posted May 8, 2019 Author Posted May 8, 2019 I studied your TV naming conventions in the past. I don't see an example of 4 numeric digits being use for season/episode. I do see an example under by "By Date" that recommends a month-day-year format like i used with the files in question.So your TV show naming convention documentation does not clear up why the year is being used for season/episode. I chose the TV Show media type because Emby captures the WMC metadata (which includes episode details like the name of performers or guests, etc) from the file and displays it in the list of episodes - a quick way of deciding which episode to watch. Unless I am mistaken that is the only media type that does that. What about my first example?
Luke 42079 Posted May 9, 2019 Posted May 9, 2019 For other content types you'd have to use the view controls to change the display to a list.
Luke 42079 Posted May 9, 2019 Posted May 9, 2019 Regarding the first example, does the episode have a season and episode number in emby?
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