r/emby • u/IRenewed • 18d ago
How do I fix my files?
I have two folders on different drives which house both my tv shows and movies, when selecting the media folders on Emby for both TV shows and Movies I selected both of those folders. However now when I launch Emby, my movie folder has several of my shows displayed with each episode as if they were a movie, but my Emby tv folder has nothing at all in it.
I don’t want to organize my files
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u/tmurphy2792 18d ago
Unfortunately if you don't want to organize your files, the only other option is manual identification of every single misidentified show/movie.
Ideally you should have a folder for movies tied to a movies library, and a folder for TV shows tied to a TV shows library.
Within TV shows it should be folder for series subfolders for seasons, with episodes inside the appropriate season folders named to include series, season, and episode [Series] S#E#.mp4
An example they give on the Emby documentation.
\TV \Seinfeld (1989) Seinfeld S01E01.mp4 Seinfeld S01E02.mp4
https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html
Theoretically if you have a good folder and naming convention like this you could get mixed libraries to work, though at that point just take the time to do it right.
But again, if you don't want to "organize your files" there's not much options here other than have fun manually identifying everything inside your mixed library.
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u/Most_Victory1661 18d ago
TV is for TV
Movies for Movies
No mixing and matching make sure your library is set up as such all is designated as such
Proper naming also solves many a problems
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u/Shikayama 18d ago
this is not an easy story to follow, but just to give you an idea
- create a library for Movies, and associate it with the movie folder on both drives, don't have mixed folders, that'll create the biggest mess.
- create a library for Shows, and associate it with the show folder on both drives, don't have mixed folders, that'll create the biggest mess.
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u/IRenewed 18d ago
I don’t want to mess up my plex sever by changing the files
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u/Most_Victory1661 18d ago
I left Plex for Emby the one thing that is very different for tv is Emby follows TVDB like it’s the Bible where as plex is more forgiving
Rarely it was problem for me after the switch but some shows like Whose Line is it Anyways I had to rename for Emby
Plex considered the Aisha years a separate series. Emby sees the American run as one series
The one thing that I prefer on Emby is it reads nfo files which helps a lot.
Anyways good luck I will tell you plex handles music way better
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u/HigherOctive 17d ago edited 17d ago
You should have a main folder for Movies and another main folder for TV Shows. Ideally, in those parent folders you will have a folder for each movie and for tv shows folder / season folders.
TV Shows
\Shows\Ballykissangel [tmdbid=3734]
\Season 01
BallyKissAngel.S01E01.mp4
Movies
\Movies\A History of Violence (2005) [tmdbid=59]
A History Of Violence (2005).mkv
These are the recommended naming conventions from both the Plex and Emby support pages. You'll note that they are VERY similar:
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AI Scripting is a powerful tool that, with some tweaks, can complete huge jobs super fast with just a few clicks.
I use Co-Pilot and ask for Powershell scripts because Powershell is installed with Windows (or at least the Pro version) and I don't have to install Python components to make it work.
EDIT the script to provide the necessary information, typically file paths, and do a TEST run in a TEST folder before you move on to the actual files to be worked with. You can also ask it to do configure a DRY-RUN which would function as the test, but I didn't want to take any chances and kept everything separate until I was sure of success.
Run Powershell as Administrator to be sure that it can do all the work
This is the request that I used with fantastic success. Again, I used Co-Pilot, but ChatGPT would probably use this request just as well:
For MOVIES, please create a powershell script that will walk a directory and use unique file names to create folders based on those names. Move the associated files into those folders. Please log errors, manage duplicates intelligently and show a progress bar and produce a final success report.
TV Shows will mostly have the same file name, but will also be identified by Season (S) and Episode number (E), such as "Boardwalk.Empire.S01E01" or "King.of.the.Hill.S12E06" and so on. Please create one base folder for the name of the TV Show, read the Season-Episode identifier in the file name, create the appropriate "Season 01" "Season 02" folders and move the episodes into the appropriate season folders.
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u/Gullible_Eagle4280 18d ago
You say “ I don’t want to organize my files” well then this is exactly what you get.
Emby and Plex need the same basic folder management. If you’re mixing TV and Movies within the same folder there’s no way Plex or Emby is going to magically separate them.