Is it possible to save images with the filename they belong to?

[katbyte 40]

Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to configure emby to save images files with the same name as the filename, ie:

"Movie (1999).ext" would have "Movie (1999) - poster.ext" ect instead of just dropping in a file called "poster.ext"

Thanks

[Abobader 3470]

Hello katbyte,

Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you.

It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread:

Thank you.

Emby Team

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

20 minutes ago, katbyte said:

Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to configure emby to save images files with the same name as the filename, ie:

"Movie (1999).ext" would have "Movie (1999) - poster.ext" ect instead of just dropping in a file called "poster.ext"

Thanks

That is exactly what I see when I store artwork to the same directory as the movie. In fact I have never seen a file named "poster" that had any relationship with a movie I had.

Edited January 12, 2021 by Gilgamesh_48

[katbyte 40]

This is what i am seeing for moves:

 

this is different then what you get?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

1 minute ago, katbyte said:

this is different then what you get?

Quite different.

Maybe it is because you are using separate directories for each movie? 
Personally I have never seen the point to that.

 Directory of K:\AllMovies\H\Hostel Trilogy

01/11/2021  09:09 PM    <DIR>          .
01/11/2021  09:09 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/11/2021  09:09 PM                 0 dir.txt
04/19/2019  06:18 PM         3,806,012 Hostel (2006)-320-10.bif
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           245,934 Hostel (2006)-banner.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           307,501 Hostel (2006)-clearart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           142,503 Hostel (2006)-clearlogo.png
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           556,712 Hostel (2006)-discart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           337,139 Hostel (2006)-fanart.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           369,516 Hostel (2006)-fanart1.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           363,190 Hostel (2006)-fanart2.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           488,799 Hostel (2006)-landscape.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           334,332 Hostel (2006)-poster.jpg
12/15/2018  12:18 AM       772,230,179 Hostel (2006).mkv
12/20/2020  10:40 PM             5,424 Hostel (2006).nfo
04/19/2019  06:19 PM         5,777,051 Hostel - Part II (2007)-320-10.bif
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           123,307 Hostel - Part II (2007)-banner.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM            41,593 Hostel - Part II (2007)-clearlogo.png
07/14/2020  09:06 PM         1,357,055 Hostel - Part II (2007)-discart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           256,511 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           125,762 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart1.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           222,085 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart2.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           566,651 Hostel - Part II (2007)-landscape.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           221,633 Hostel - Part II (2007)-poster.jpg
12/15/2018  12:18 AM       783,396,779 Hostel - Part II (2007).mkv
07/16/2020  05:37 PM             4,340 Hostel - Part II (2007).nfo

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

There is no option for this that I am aware of.  

Yes structure will provide different results as a flat structure/multi-versions requires "Movie (1999) - poster.ext" ect.

[katbyte 40]

15 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

There is no option for this that I am aware of.  

Yes structure will provide different results as a flat structure/multi-versions requires "Movie (1999) - poster.ext" ect.

Thanks @Happy2Play - if that's the case i'll just continue with my cron job to fix them up daily

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

Quite different.

Maybe it is because you are using separate directories for each movie? 
Personally I have never seen the point to that.

 Directory of K:\AllMovies\H\Hostel Trilogy

01/11/2021  09:09 PM    <DIR>          .
01/11/2021  09:09 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/11/2021  09:09 PM                 0 dir.txt
04/19/2019  06:18 PM         3,806,012 Hostel (2006)-320-10.bif
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           245,934 Hostel (2006)-banner.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           307,501 Hostel (2006)-clearart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           142,503 Hostel (2006)-clearlogo.png
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           556,712 Hostel (2006)-discart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           337,139 Hostel (2006)-fanart.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           369,516 Hostel (2006)-fanart1.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           363,190 Hostel (2006)-fanart2.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           488,799 Hostel (2006)-landscape.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           334,332 Hostel (2006)-poster.jpg
12/15/2018  12:18 AM       772,230,179 Hostel (2006).mkv
12/20/2020  10:40 PM             5,424 Hostel (2006).nfo
04/19/2019  06:19 PM         5,777,051 Hostel - Part II (2007)-320-10.bif
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           123,307 Hostel - Part II (2007)-banner.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM            41,593 Hostel - Part II (2007)-clearlogo.png
07/14/2020  09:06 PM         1,357,055 Hostel - Part II (2007)-discart.png
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           256,511 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           125,762 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart1.jpg
07/14/2020  09:06 PM           222,085 Hostel - Part II (2007)-fanart2.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           566,651 Hostel - Part II (2007)-landscape.jpg
05/31/2020  05:20 PM           221,633 Hostel - Part II (2007)-poster.jpg
12/15/2018  12:18 AM       783,396,779 Hostel - Part II (2007).mkv
07/16/2020  05:37 PM             4,340 Hostel - Part II (2007).nfo

 

You my friend would not be happy if you delete a movie and the folder is removed as has happened in the past.

You also can't use some of Emby's advanced features with that layout.  For best overall experience and functionality you want each movie in it's own folder named with the year for best matching and features. Theme Music and theme videos come to mind as quick examples as well as some 3rd party plugins that won't work with that structure properly.

There is a reason for the recommended structure given in the Knowledge Base.

Edited January 12, 2021 by cayars

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

57 minutes ago, cayars said:

There is a reason for the recommended structure given in the Knowledge Base.

I never ever delete anything from inside Emby. Emby is not, for me, a file manager. I find the "advanced" features unneeded and it makes library maintenance from the file system(where I do all my maintenance), for me, much more difficult that it needs to be. I guess I could change but it would be EXTREAMLY tedious to go through all my thousands of movies and change to a directory for each movie. 

Plus the structure of having a directory for each movie is, for me, just just excessively cluttered. 

If Emby ever changes to require the folder for each movie I guess I would then spend the hours needed to make the change. But that would also cause me to reevaluate Emby. I believe in simplicity and the "recommended" structure is just not "simple" at all.

[Carlo 4561]

I can rename10K movies in under 30 minutes or so using Filebot which can creates folders and all.

So it doesn't have to take a long time with the right tools.

Emby does try to accommodate other file/folder structures than the recommended but you do give up some features doing so. This type of structure probably gets far less testing in the beta process as well so it's not recommended for multiple reasons.

To each their own but to me having movies in genres or in collection folders is tedious and not simple.  I don't need to know ahead of time that "Hole in One (2009)" is part of an American Pie spin off collection or a Comedy.  I just know it will be alphabetical on disc under H and with other movies starting with HO.  This is just personal but to me it doesn't get easier than an alphabetical list of only folder names representing each move.

I do however have 27 folders under my Movie Folder.  One folder for each letter of the alphabet plus # for all movies starting with a number or special char.  So Hole in One is easy found here:

/Movies/H/Hole In One (2009)/

That's also a very fast way for discs to retrieve information as well as to personally navigate in File Explorer as you don't have to load thousand and thousand of entries at each level.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

But I already have all the metadata and images and, while FileBot will create the structure as needed for the movie files it will not move the support files that already exist into the created directories.

But, maybe, at some point, it would be worth the hassle but at least for now it does not seem to be.

I use FileBot a lot for naming but it just does not seem to be suited for what I might need to "fix" my structure. That is particularly true since everything I have works fine.

[Carlo 4561]

Filebot can rename the images, subtitles, movies, bif files into the directory named after the movie.
It's a pretty sweet program once you get it setup.

I've helped a lot of people with thousands of files in a mess to get organized pretty quickly.

In your case if you wanted to play copy out 5 to 10 movies or a collection or two to have a "play zone" so when things don't work correctly the first couple of attemps you don't mess up anything being used.

But if what you have now works...  Another alternative is to create a new mount point and start using for new stuff you do run through Filebot.  Then you can run 500 movies a day through it moving from the present place to the new place.  Lots of ways to "migrate" without killing yourself if you choose to do it. I'd rather do this myself in small batches over days so Emby doesn't go crazy seeing all the "new" stuff.

[katbyte 40]

FWIW i've had decent success with file bot but it does make mistakes. takes some time to actually go through large numbers of movies

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

1 hour ago, katbyte said:

FWIW i've had decent success with file bot but it does make mistakes. takes some time to actually go through large numbers of movies

I have never had FileBot make a mistake if the original name was anywhere close. There have been cases where several choices were presented and, sometimes, the correct choice was down the list some ways. However the correct choice has always been in the list.

Even some very badly named TV shows were correctly renamed. I have found that the key for TV shows is that the directory they are in is named mostly correctly from the start. It seem that FileBot will use the directory name as the key when the files in it are badly misnamed. Just recently it handled a file where there was a directory called "Family Affair" and all the files under it were simply named:
1.avi
2.avi
3.avi
...
70.avi
and so on.

FileBot correctly changed the files into the format "Family Affair - SxxEyy with each file attributed to the correct season.

I believe FileBot could have even made the season folders and correctly placed the correct files into the correct season folder but I do not bother with having FileBot do that as it is simple for me to do.

I have seen a movie file so badly named to start that FileBot could not handle it but that is an extreme rarity for me.