Pulling embedded metadata

[Guest]

I missed the whole point of your post.. the SORT TITLE... I went on about my file names and embedded title..  Sorry..

I would be all for more metadata embedded support/control in video though.. I had a couple of ideas for mine at one time.. many configurations/use scenarios of this however... In some cases it would also aid identification more quickly/exacting for EMBY...

[Neonblue 3]

Just now, Hxemby001 said:

I missed the whole point of your post.. the SORT TITLE... I went on about my file names and embedded title..  Sorry..

I would be all for more metadata embedded support/control in video though.. I had a couple of ideas for mine at one time.. many configurations/use scenarios of this however... In some cases it would also aid identification more quickly/exacting for EMBY...

I've done a lot of extra work adding in extra metadata information on my movies.  Sort title is one of them, but I've also added in things like "Harry Potter", "Star Wars", "Star Trek", etc.. to group all of the movies together.   It also appears all most of the genres I have configured already are not coming through.  I only see mystery, science fiction, and thriller.  But I also use adventure, animation, classics, comedy, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, historical, history, horror, independent, military & war, music, musicals, mystery, romance, and war.  This will be an issue as I often search for a type of movie I want to watch based on my mood at the time.

It's also nice because if I move the data or rebuild it's no extra work; the server just reads all of the information in.  This is one thing Plex (only thing?) did well.  But, it was a necessity as I was always seemingly rebuilding the movie DB as it would get corrupted on its own.

[Guest]

I definitely agree with the fact addressing metadata at the file source is the way to go and address the source of the issue.. anything else would be on the database or program/app response or correlation of the data, if done correctly.

One of the reasons I used EMBY and WINAMP to refine the way I did things... still working on a completion there...online databases sometimes didn't cut it.. needed refining.. and programs do thing differently so.. getting it right would assumingly automate the process with having to redo all of the work every time.. if you change something or break something  ... or something else happens..

[Luke 42078]

We do support embedded genres.

[Mick_K 7]

Does this mean if I have all my covers and metadata embedded in my MP4's, I no longer need have folders full of .jpg and .nfo files for Emby to display metadata?

[Luke 42078]

18 hours ago, Mick_K said:

Does this mean if I have all my covers and metadata embedded in my MP4's, I no longer need have folders full of .jpg and .nfo files for Emby to display metadata?

If that's what you prefer, yes.