Missing episodes and multiple episodes

[Junglejim 385]

Hi guys, sorry if this has been covered before but it a new thing for me from 4.6..  Multiple episodes seem to give a missing episode result. I have looked at the settings and nothing jumps out as a problem. As you can see Emby thinks Ep 2 is missing but its a double. I also attached the episode data.

 

[ebr 16185]

Hi. Run a library scan and see if these clear up.

[rexerm 36]

4 hours ago, Junglejim said:

Hi guys, sorry if this has been covered before but it a new thing for me from 4.6..  Multiple episodes seem to give a missing episode result. I have looked at the settings and nothing jumps out as a problem. As you can see Emby thinks Ep 2 is missing but its a double. I also attached the episode data.

As far as I can tell, you can't do this from within Emby itself, but I add this line to the NFOs of all my multi-part episodes:

<episodenumberend>2</episodenumberend>

 

[pwhodges 2012]

You can also name the file with the episode range in the name, like: s01e01-e02.

Paul

[Carlo 4561]

You can see examples of this here
https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159110-tv-naming

[Happy2Play 9782]

The naming should not be the issue (1x01-x02).  But believe @rexermis probably correct, we would need to see the nfo for that media if nfo file is present. @Junglejim

Edited June 14, 2021 by Happy2Play
typo

[Junglejim 385]

Hi guys, I don't use nfo files and this file was named by the auto organise plugin. This issue just popped up after the 4.6 update, it was fine before. I have run a library scan but that did not fix it. What do you suggest from here? I could edit the metadata manually within Emby but this is not the only double episode affected in my library, all of my double ep's are affected.

Cheers.

Edit: Actually I don't think I can fix this using the metadata manager. I just had a look and it doesn't seem possible. Any advice would be welcome. If not that's ok I guess I'll just have to live with it.  

Edited June 15, 2021 by Junglejim

[rbjtech 5284]

It appears to work ok with NFO's but even if you use them the multi episode Metadata cannot be edited via emby. 

I see this as bug ?

My NFO had this in it (possibly from a previous build?)

  <episode>19</episode>
  <episodenumberend>20</episodenumberend>
  <season>4</season>

[Happy2Play 9782]

@Junglejim Not sure as I enabled missing episodes on a database only library (no nfo) and added this series with provided naming scheme without issue.  So all I can guess is a quirk with Missing Episodes.

 

Before

After (Stargate SG-1 - 1x01-x02 - Children of the Gods (1), Children of the Gods (2).strm)

 

Only thing I can suggest is Removing the episode, doing a library scan so both show missing, then re-add the episode and do a scan to see if they are picked up properly.

[Junglejim 385]

Thanks for the advice mate, that worked.  Now I have to find all the rest of my double episodes and do the same thing.

Cheers.

[Happy2Play 9782]

19 minutes ago, Junglejim said:

Thanks for the advice mate, that worked.  Now I have to find all the rest of my double episodes and do the same thing.

Cheers.

Not knowing your platform you could do a search assuming you used the same naming scheme.

filename:*-x

[Happy2Play 9782]

Or make a copy of your library.db run this on your copy in a database viewer.  This will show you all your multi-episode items assuming you have used the same naming scheme.

SELECT * FROM MediaItems WHERE Path LIKE '%-x%'

Edited June 15, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Junglejim 385]

@Happy2Play Thanks for the tips mate, I use a Linux OS and used KFind with some wild-cards to track down the offending episodes. All sorted now.

Cheers.

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Nuitarius 22]

Hi

I have had same issue as OP.

I just wanted to share my experience here as it may differ slightly in solution, and also may shine light on how this may be improved if someone gets bored

So I ripped Heroes season 4 today and the first disc had only 4 entries, but 5 episodes. It turned out that episode 1 and 2 are bundled together. Weird.

This thread helped me figure out what to do, to at least get information enough into Emby so that I would not ponder where episode 2 is.

I use TinyMM to scrape for data via tvdb (for shows). I used the accepted naming convention like this "S04E01E02 - Orientation, Jump Push Fall.mkv"

TinyMM accepted 2 episodes, but with identical episode naming. After renaming the episodes to the correct names I scraped and an nfo was created. Only 1 nfo though, but it contains both episodes. That was really neat.

Emby did not accept this though. So I had to add/change the following:

  <title>Orientation</title>
  <originaltitle/>
  <showtitle>Heroes</showtitle>
  <season>4</season>
  <episode>1</episode>
 

to

  <title>Orientation + Jump, Push, Fall</title>
  <originaltitle/>
  <showtitle>Heroes</showtitle>
  <season>4</season>
  <episode>1</episode>
  <episodenumberend>2</episodenumberend>

Now I have a better named episode in Emby

Maybe this can help others.

Thank you all for the assistance

[GrimReaper 4742]

That is a known issue where Emby still doesn't read standard Kodi-formatted multi-episode NFOs. Manual intervention is the only workaround currently.

 

[warrentc3 47]

On 1/20/2022 at 2:23 PM, Nuitarius said:

Hi

I have had same issue as OP.

I just wanted to share my experience here as it may differ slightly in solution, and also may shine light on how this may be improved if someone gets bored

So I ripped Heroes season 4 today and the first disc had only 4 entries, but 5 episodes. It turned out that episode 1 and 2 are bundled together. Weird.

This thread helped me figure out what to do, to at least get information enough into Emby so that I would not ponder where episode 2 is.

I use TinyMM to scrape for data via tvdb (for shows). I used the accepted naming convention like this "S04E01E02 - Orientation, Jump Push Fall.mkv"

TinyMM accepted 2 episodes, but with identical episode naming. After renaming the episodes to the correct names I scraped and an nfo was created. Only 1 nfo though, but it contains both episodes. That was really neat.

Emby did not accept this though. So I had to add/change the following:

  <title>Orientation</title>
  <originaltitle/>
  <showtitle>Heroes</showtitle>
  <season>4</season>
  <episode>1</episode>
 

to

  <title>Orientation + Jump, Push, Fall</title>
  <originaltitle/>
  <showtitle>Heroes</showtitle>
  <season>4</season>
  <episode>1</episode>
  <episodenumberend>2</episodenumberend>

Now I have a better named episode in Emby

Maybe this can help others.

Thank you all for the assistance

For all the other tmm users out there... this is a "won't fix"... 
https://gitlab.com/tinyMediaManager/tinyMediaManager/-/issues/1444

Maybe one day Emby will support reading a single nfo file that aligns with a single media file that prescribes multiple epsiodes.  Or maybe someone at Emby that has children and has kids tv shows on their system would actually be able to empathize, understand, and help make a difference.

Attaching nfo examples from tmm output and Emby generated.

 

 

tmmGenerated-Franklin and Friends 01x01 01x02 - Franklin and the Gecko Games Franklin's All Ears.nfo EmbyGenerated-Franklin and Friends S01E01E02.nfo

Edited February 21, 2024 by warrentc3
attaching nfo

[Luke 42080]

5 hours ago, warrentc3 said:

For all the other tmm users out there... this is a "won't fix"... 
https://gitlab.com/tinyMediaManager/tinyMediaManager/-/issues/1444

Maybe one day Emby will support reading a single nfo file that aligns with a single media file that prescribes multiple epsiodes.  Or maybe someone at Emby that has children and has kids tv shows on their system would actually be able to empathize, understand, and help make a difference.

Attaching nfo examples from tmm output and Emby generated.

 

 

tmmGenerated-Franklin and Friends 01x01 01x02 - Franklin and the Gecko Games Franklin's All Ears.nfo 17.35 kB · 0 downloads EmbyGenerated-Franklin and Friends S01E01E02.nfo 3.32 kB · 0 downloads

I’m sure we will.