TV Series Displayed Incorrectly on Webviewer, Android app, and Emby Theater

[rckrchrdsn 0]

Emby Server, Windows, 4.3.1.0. Using Webviewer, latest updates of Android App and Windows 10 App for viewing. The display is the same for all three viewers.

I recently uploaded all seasons of Northern Exposure using naming convention of "show name - SxxExx - episode name".  I include pictures of the file system on the server drive and a picture of the directory where I noticed the incorrect outcome. 
 

In the viewers I get my "show name - SxxDxx - Play All" files at the top of the list. I then get a properly enumerated episode with Emby's episode description from episode 1 to 4. Episode 5 through 7 are not displayed but the short list of proper episodes is followed by season 2 extras out of the Season 0 directory, though the list season 0 extras is not complete is not complete showing about 9 extras out of 13.  All the episodes are shown in the picture below with a yellow rectangle around the episodes not shown. I show third image of the Season 0 subdir with the video files that show up in the Season 2 viewers lists marked in yellow, so I see two play all, 4 episodes, and 8 files from Season 0. 

 

I could live with the Season 0 since they are not listed as episodes, I attach a sample of what Emby Theater shows. Note, that the number 5 to 7 are not used, and the season 0 additions start at 8.

Here's hoping you see something obvious and easy to fix!

Edited January 15, 2020 by rckrchrdsn

[Luke 42081]

Hi, what i would suggest doing is using the Emby metadata manager to go through all of those episodes and make sure their season and episode numbers are correctly filled in. Once you do that, I think this should correct itself. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9783]

The issue will be the servers interpretation of that unsupported naming scheme.

 

What is S1d1-9 suppose to represent in a Season 0 folder?  To me it would possibly mean season 1 episodes 1 thru 9.

[rckrchrdsn 0]

The issue will be the servers interpretation of that unsupported naming scheme.

 

What is S1d1-9 suppose to represent in a Season 0 folder?  To me it would possibly mean season 1 episodes 1 thru 9.

That actually represents the numbering scheme from handbrake, that is Season1Disk1-item9.  I haven't had any problems with this under Specials in Movies. What Emby is grabbing from Season 0 seems a bit random.

So would it be your supposition that renaming the Season 0 files might take care of this?

[rckrchrdsn 0]

Hi, what i would suggest doing is using the Emby metadata manager to go through all of those episodes and make sure their season and episode numbers are correctly filled in. Once you do that, I think this should correct itself. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

I know how to use the meta manager from within the viewers, but if the episode is not showing up from in there... Is there a separate manager that lets me edit the files directly?

[Luke 42081]

Start with the ones you can see. You may also want to check the detail screen of the existing ones to see if they were grouped together based on season and episode numbers. If they were, you can ungroup them at the bottom of the detail screen of the episode.

[rckrchrdsn 0]

Start with the ones you can see. You may also want to check the detail screen of the existing ones to see if they were grouped together based on season and episode numbers. If they were, you can ungroup them at the bottom of the detail screen of the episode.

So started by checking the Play All, their metadata was blank as I expected and they were listed a the top of the list but were not numbered as an episode. 

 

Next i check the metadata of the four episodes shown. Like the champ it is, Emby Server loaded the Episode name and description and year broadcast. I love that.

 

Then I checked the metadata of the files from the Season 0 that were enumerated as episodes. In the data it showed season 2, episode 8 up to episode 16 sequentially.  No other information filled in other than filename which it used as episode name.  At this point I changed the season to 0, the episode to blank and saved. then did a refresh metadata. This took a bit on TV Series library. 

 

On inspection, I found 8 new files from Season 0. all other entries were exactly the same. I insanely repeated the last step of changing all season 0 items from season 2 to season 0/blank episodes then refreshed metadata. Guess what happened. Yep same thing. Including the long time on refreshing TV Series.

 

I cut season 0 subdir to another drive. Refreshed again, which was at least 4x faster. Then I checked season 2 looks great all episodes showing with appropriate information and names.  I checked several other series where I had started using the Season 0 format vs. the Specials subdir in each season. Those seemed to work fine, but I haven't checked all of them.  

 

The behavior that disappeared was failing to display episodes that had proper metafiles and adding files from season 0 starting the enumerator after the last valid episode number, i.e. seven episodes with random Season 0 files added starting at 8.  In season 6 of same show, there were 5 Play All, 23 episodes. I was show 5 Play All files in disk order (S06D0x) with no enumeration, 4 episodes with correct data, and 16 season 0 files enumerated starting at 24.  There was a consistent issue there.

 

I understand using Handbrake's file numbering was not the correct format, but I don't see how that should force Season 0 content into other seasons in this manner.

 

One last thing to make it clear. I have examined about 40 metafiles in six season subdirs and the Emby Server built them correctly. Those files now display nicely with proper titles and descriptions and date of release. 

[Luke 42081]

That's interesting, thanks for the info !