TV Show Library problems - What is Flaklypa??

[EmbyEmbyUser202 0]

 

I need some specific information about how Emby identifies TV shows (using Emby theatre for windows, xbox one - same prob on both)

In my TV Shows library, some of my TV show folders were being recognized as television series, while others were just folders.  The ones that were just folders displayed series information, but no episodes.   I checked out one of the ones that were not being recognized as series, and removed a few files that were named differently.  This caused 3 or 4 other problem folders to magically be identified as series correctly (unrelated to the original folder where I made the change).  I then went to another problem folder and just tried changing the file names.   This caused the entire library to just give the message no shows found.

 I then removed that folder completely and now no shows are recognized as series, just folders!  When I go into the tv show folders, I am getting the title "Flaklypa TV shows" in each folder - and now the episodes are showing up but without screenshots next to them.

 

Help!

PS: I've been a windows media centre user who upgraded to windows 10 - I've followed all tutorials and wiki entries concerning library structure and folder names - renamed many files and folders - converted wtv files successfully to mp4 - had some previous success with Emby but problems now!

 

Edited June 13, 2020 by EmbyEmbyUser202

[Luke 42081]

HI there, can you please go over a specific example? How have you named and organized your TV files? Have you compared to our TV naming guide?

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159110-tv-naming

[EmbyEmbyUser202 0]

To simplify things and troubleshoot, I copied one of the folders that worked into a new folder.   I made a new library with content type TV SHOWS, but when I navigate to that folder using Emby, it says NO ITEMS FOUND.

I re-made the library with type MIXED CONTENT, and the folder is now recognized as a TV Show and works fine.

I am moving my folders one by one into the new library hoping to find the source of the problem (beside the software bug with content type).  I'm surprised Emby is so sensitive about running into a file with an unusual name.   Windows Media Centre would just ignore files that it couldn't recognize and all else would continue working as normal.

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

Can you go over specific example, folder structure, naming scheme.

[EmbyEmbyUser202 0]

Here's the setup:

Base folder for the library:  E:\Recorded TV\TV Shows re-org

Folder that only "works" when content type is MIXED CONTENT:   E:\Recorded TV\TV Shows re-org\Downton Abbey

Filenames: Downton Abbey S05E03.mp4 , Downton Abbey S05E05.mp4, ...  consistently named.

           

[Luke 42081]

Can you show the complete contents underneath recorded tv?

[Luke 42081]

@EmbyEmbyUser202 ?

[EmbyEmbyUser202 0]

Thanks for following up on my post and not forgetting about it.

Everything seems to be working fine as long as I keep the content type as "mixed content".   I'm guessing there's an invalid file or some other stray file that is hidden in one of the subfolders in my library (I wrote some python scripts to rename the files from their WMC names to Emby-compatible names after I converted them to mp4, so there maybe is a python program file somewhere in there that I forgot to delete.) 

I've got my mixed content folders for TV and movies working well at the moment.    Thanks again for following up.

 

[Luke 42081]

Thanks for the feedback.