TV sort by last episode date added crazy

[bemerika 0]

Suddenly a show which was added 2 years ago is at the top for sort by last episode date and a show I just added is at the bottom. I find this very frustrating.

There are something like 30 episodes in the old one sorting as new -- I checked the added on date for every single episode and all were from 2018. Is there a way to fix this?

It's not like people are still writing sort code. How can this not work? Either you are displaying the wrong information or you are sorting on the wrong information.

I switched to emby from Plex - I got tired of their slow decline. Feeling disappointed. I searched -- this is not the first time anyone has reported this.

[Happy2Play 9782]

I thinks we would need to look as specific examples, but only reason I could think of is future added dates keeping then listed first.

I know every thing I have added in the last 24 hour has sort first.

 

testing

Now adding any episode within a old series can make this happen, it does not mean the last episode.

I added a missing episode to a Old series, since that episode contains a new date added it moves then entire series.

Sorting Episode shows the episode with the newest DataAdded first.  So that Series will be sorted first on Shows with this sort option. Even if in the middle of a series.

 

Can you provide specific examples?

Edited August 22, 2020 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42080]

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I searched -- this is not the first time anyone has reported this.

Hi, no it's not the first time, but if you read to the end of those topics you'll see the software is function exactly as they had configured it to. Have you checked the date created timestamps of your files?

If you don't want the date added value to be based on the date created timestamps, then we do offer configuration for that as well, so this is all in your control. 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks !

[Carlo 4561]

This knowledge base article goes over what Luke mentioned above:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159241-new-media-date-handling

[bemerika 0]

OK -- the files are kept on a Synology - DS418j

When I ssh in to it and stat one of the files I see this -- does the lack of a birth (date) mean there is not one? Hence a diskstation problem?

  File: ‘Fargo (2014) - S01E01 - The Crocodile's Dilemma (1080p BluRay x265 Silence).mkv’
  Size: 1861331782    Blocks: 3635432    IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 112737167   Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx)  Uid: ( 1026/    brad)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2020-04-07 16:48:13.127639530 -0700
Modify: 2018-03-05 09:30:16.000000000 -0700
Change: 2020-06-25 17:10:33.123216780 -0700
 Birth: -

Otherwise every file and the container folder are all dated 2018 and server is configured to: Use File Creation Date.

 

[Luke 42080]

Yes you might be right. Great investigation.