kandiman 14 Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Hey all, this has been driving me crazy for awhile when I go to IDENTIFY a movie using a IMDB Id it never pulls up the movie, one example is this movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15348026/ I assume I'm doing it correctly entering this number into Emby tt15348026 Are the results only pulled from TheMovieDb ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Hi, Emby itself doesn't use IMDB for meta-data but some other meta-data providers Emby does use will have the IMDB reference ID. So that allows Emby to search for the IMDB ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandiman 14 Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 (edited) Thanks cayars that makes sense, so I guess you will always have to add the metadata manually if the movie exists on IMDB and not on themoviedb Edited September 20, 2021 by kandiman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillmacca01 149 Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, kandiman said: Thanks cayars that makes sense, so I guess you will always have to add the metadata manually if the movie exists on IMDB and not on themoviedb If the movie is not on themoviedb, you could always add it, along with the IMDB ID 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 9/20/2021 at 9:20 AM, cayars said: Hi, Emby itself doesn't use IMDB for meta-data but some other meta-data providers Emby does use will have the IMDB reference ID. So that allows Emby to search for the IMDB ID. Is it a licensing issue why Emby doesn't use iMDB. Would also be nice to get ratings from Rotten Tomatoes like I can in Plex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 You mean like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8249 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 9/20/2021 at 9:22 AM, kandiman said: Thanks cayars that makes sense, so I guess you will always have to add the metadata manually if the movie exists on IMDB and not on themoviedb Correct, you have OMDB also but if it doesn't exist then yes you have to manually enter metadata or add the metadata to TMDB. But there are lots of cases where these TV Movies don't really exist on providers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 41 minutes ago, cayars said: You mean like this? How did you get the percentages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 What looks like happened to me is a lot of movies just copied the MovieDB ID to the IMDB ID and the ratings are all messed up. Refreshing the metadata did not fix it. On my Plex server all the ratings are fine along with Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Just now, dcol said: What looks like happened to me is a lot of movies just copied the MovieDB ID to the IMDB ID and the ratings are all messed up. Refreshing the metadata did not fix it. On my Plex server all the ratings are fine along with Rotten Tomatoes ratings. There's nothing in the server that will do that, so that's probably due to having bad data in nfo files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Just now, Luke said: There's nothing in the server that will do that, so that's probably due to having bad data in nfo files. Doesn't Emby create the NFO files? I didn't mess with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8249 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 12 minutes ago, dcol said: How did you get the percentages? If available they come from OMDB, otherwise manually. 1 minute ago, dcol said: What looks like happened to me is a lot of movies just copied the MovieDB ID to the IMDB ID and the ratings are all messed up. Refreshing the metadata did not fix it. On my Plex server all the ratings are fine along with Rotten Tomatoes ratings. I guess you could use something like notepad++ to search every nfo and clear that field, then refresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 minute ago, Happy2Play said: If available they come from OMDB, otherwise manually. I guess you could use something like notepad++ to search every nfo and clear that field, then refresh. Good suggestion. I did manually clear that field in the edit metadata settings and the IMDB came back on a refresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Just now, dcol said: Good suggestion. I did manually clear that field in the edit metadata settings and the IMDB came back on a refresh. One possible reason is that nfo saving is not enabled, so you have bad data in an nfo file, but you're not allowing the server to update it after fixing it manually. So that's why a refresh just brings it back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 If that's the I think you can turn off NFO reader, Run a refresh meta for missing and when finished turn the NFO reader back on. Does that sound correct @Luke if this is the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 It's possible but without going into detail these are just best guesses based on what we commonly see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Or should I just delete all the NFO files. Then refresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 (edited) I deleted the NFO for one movie and it created it again with the same incorrect imdb ID. I attached the NFO. If I delete the imdb ID in settings, it then gets the correct ID Onus.nfo Edited October 15, 2021 by dcol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 18 minutes ago, dcol said: I deleted the NFO for one movie and it created it again with the same incorrect imdb ID. I attached the NFO. If I delete the imdb ID in settings, it then gets the correct ID Onus.nfo 2.55 kB · 0 downloads Corresponding server log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8249 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 23 minutes ago, dcol said: I deleted the NFO for one movie and it created it again with the same incorrect imdb ID. I attached the NFO. If I delete the imdb ID in settings, it then gets the correct ID Onus.nfo 2.55 kB · 0 downloads Since Emby reuses existin providerids it just spit out what was already in the database. Only Identify will change existing providerids. So deleting the nfo does not really do anything. So removing all imbdids from nfos, then doing a Refresh Search for Missing should populate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Deleting the imdb tags in the nfo's didn't work, it actually really screwed up the database. So I deleted the library and recreated it. Now everything looks normal. There should be a better way. Seems everytime I make a major settings change I end up having to delete the library. Guess it doesn't delete everything when you make some changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 there are still a handful of movies that did not upload the imdb rating. They have the correct ID and pull in the rest of the data. Any idea why this happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8249 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Just now, dcol said: there are still a handful of movies that did not upload the imdb rating. They have the correct ID and pull in the rest of the data. Any idea why this happens? Would need to go over specific examples but all ratings come from TMDB and/or OMDB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Quote There should be a better way. Yes, the Identify feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcol 165 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 identity actually doesn,t get the ratings for movies that didn,t get them with the refresh. These movies have the imdb and tmdb ID,s. For these movies I have to enter the ratings manually in edit metadata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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