Emby & Media Center Master

[hansolo77 11]

Hello all!

 

I've been using Emby since way back when it was called MB2.  For a long time, I've been using Media Center Master to collect metadata for all the media in my library.  In the last week, something happened to my Emby library database in which it was completely emptied.  It might have been a hacker, or it might have been me, I don't know.  All I know is the database was completely wiped.  When I restarted the server, all of the paths had been erased from the settings as to the location of my library.  So I re-added them, and after a number of hours it had re-added all my movies and TV shows.  After spending the day at work and coming home, I noticed a lot of the information in my browser was wrong.  It had mismatched TV about 30 shows.  This is easily remedied, but the problem should never have come up.  All of my TV shows are inside their own folders, and each has their collection of artwork and xml about the show.  Inside each show there are folders for each season, and each season has a subfolder called "metadata" that has the episode information.  This is how it has always worked in the past, and Media Center Master created all this information.  However, now it looks like Emby scrapes it's own metadata during the scans, and completely ignores this information.

 

My question is, does Emby no longer look for pre-existing metadata?  The idea here was so I wouldn't have to rescrape when re-adding a show I've moved off my system (I like to put shows I've watched on a removable drive to re-add in the future and it's always worked in the past).  It seems like this would be a rather large function to remove, which makes me think maybe there's a bug somewhere.  Is there maybe a setting I'm overlooking that was lost when my database was purged that allows using this information?  Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

[Happy2Play 9783]

Do you have the XML Metadata plugin installed?  If not then no Emby will not uses the existing xml metadata provided by MCM (this is not new).  But I have not done any clean build testing recently.

 

I did not experience any of the library lost issues on any of my production, beta or test builds (outside of confirming specific issues) and use MCM for my stable and beta servers.

[AxeMan 25]

This is an issue for people that had an old install and upgraded (or auto upgraded) to the latest build.

 

There's a patch that @@Luke posted in this thread:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/79481-43025-path-for-tv-shows-lost/

[Luke 42083]

Emby does still like for preexisting metadata, but out of the box it's nfo files.

 

For xml support you need to install the xml metadata, which is community maintained.

 

We strongly suggest using nfo.

[hansolo77 11]

Does MCM support creating NFO files?  I'm ok with using NFO if that's the case.  I thought I had the xml addon installed, maybe it's not working?

 

Just checked, I guess I didn't have the xml addon installed.  Thanks for the info.  I've installed, fingers crossed that helps my problem.  I'd still like to know if MCM supports creating NFO though.

Edited November 24, 2019 by hansolo77

[Happy2Play 9783]

Does MCM support creating NFO files?  I'm ok with using NFO if that's the case.  I thought I had the xml addon installed, maybe it's not working?

 

Just checked, I guess I didn't have the xml addon installed.  Thanks for the info.  I've installed, fingers crossed that helps my problem.  I'd still like to know if MCM supports creating NFO though.

Yes there is a option to generate nfo metadata also.  Go to MCM Application-S&P-Metadata.  

[hansolo77 11]

Oh hey thanks!

[hansolo77 11]

Um, sorry.. Which setting do I actually want to use?  There's a few different (.nfo) options.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Um, sorry.. Which setting do I actually want to use?  There's a few different (.nfo) options.

The Kodi/XBMC compatible metadata.

[hansolo77 11]

The Kodi/XBMC compatible metadata.

 Great thanks.  I was actually going to pick that one but I wasn't sure.