Identify TV episode selection in Mixed library

[lgpmichael 0]

Identifying individual episodes in a mixed library would be helpful, and as you already have the code, should be incredibly easy.

 

Right now you pull episode data from the tvdb, so all you'd need to do is add a TVDB box into the mixed content "identify" option, and pass it along the codepath for identifying an episode that you already have for TV show episode metadata pulling.

(Also adding this as the ability to do the same by adding an "identify" at episode level in TV series would be very handy and easy also.

[ebr 16184]

Hi.  Identification for an episode is by season and episode number.  Can't you just enter those properly?

[lgpmichael 0]

Hi.  Identification for an episode is by season and episode number.  Can't you just enter those properly?

You know, I've messed around with filenames and I can't make it auto-identify when you have mixed films and TV shows in one directory.

 

And it's hardly user friendly when you have to keep messing around with filenames, when a simple addition of a new tvdb textfield, calling code you already have, could solve ALL the problems that I and I expect many others are having.

 

This is a clear example for a feature which is EASY to add, and would benefit people generally, and ALSO benefit support people on here. When people are having trouble with naming files, just tell them to use the identify feature.

[Luke 42079]

In a mixed content library you still need to use proper tv naming conventions, which means a series folder and episodes underneath that.

[ebr 16184]

But we already have two fields doing the same thing - season and episode number.  You can edit those directly with the metadata editor as well.

 

However, this:

 

 

 

when you have mixed films and TV shows in one directory

 

depending on exactly what you mean there could be a problem no matter what.  TV episodes have to be under a minimum of a "show" directory.  So, you can't have something like movie1, movie2, episode1, episode2 in the same directory.  The episodes would have to be under a TV show folder.

[lgpmichael 0]

Why not? I can set the metadata by hand so it's obviously capable of having the data there.

I'm not going to be messing around with subdirectories, which in thise case don't even work. My use case, one of several, is a playlist for the MCU. It mixes TV and film. TV can be split half way through seasons, it's just not possible as it stands to do it without a lot of faffing around. And from the way you describe, the one way it works for emby is a way that will break it for the other media server I use. I've already made one compromise and re-coded some of the other media server to match emby, I'm not desperate to make another which makes no sense in the way the other one works.

I don't see why it would be impossible to do TV shows individually. You already have a scraper which works on a per episode basis. Each episode has a unique number so can be identified. This seems to be to be a trivial job unless the code was written incredibly badly. As it stands, this makes emby a no win for me and I'll probably have to look elsewhere, as to be frank I can't be doing with manually editing hundreds of files. Which is a pain because it ALMOST works well.

[ebr 16184]

Hi. If you are just trying to create a playlist, why not create a playlist?  You can mix movies and episodes in those easily...