Keep your media organised

By default, Emby will save all your recorded TV programmes in its own folder using filenames determined by your electronic programme guide’s (EPG) description of a show. If you want to place recordings into your media library, you’ll want to take some additional steps.

First, navigate to the Live TV section under the Server Dashboard and switch to the Settings tab. From here you should choose where to save your recordings. Click the magnifying glass button next to Default Recording Path to select a specific folder, and then do the same with the two optional paths for movies and TV series if you want to save your recordings to the same folders as your media library.

Next, scroll down and verify the ‘Automatically convert recordings to a streaming friendly format’ is ticked – not just to make it easy to stream your recordings, but also to save on drive space. There are options for preserving the original video and audio, but this will likely lead to transcoding, so leave unticked unless you have a powerful server.

Check the ‘Default Recording Settings’ where you can automatically pad out your recordings by starting earlier and ending later than the scheduled times to ensure the entire recording is captured. Click Save when done.

Next, click Plugins under Extras on the main Settings Dashboard. Switch to the Catalogue tab, scroll down and install the Auto-Organize plugin. This can be configured via its TV tab to automatically rename and file your recordings into the correct folders in your library to help organise your media perfectly.