Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Can we get the option to lock external IDs, just like you can lock other items under metadata? There are times when the show you are adding isn't in your main metadata provider, but it is in the 2nd or 3rd option. However, Emby overrides the lower options to find the most similar one in your main provider. It would be great to add the ID from a 2nd tier provider and then lock it so Emby won't search another provider for that particular title. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 HI there, can you please go over a specific example? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) This series was only found on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3013722/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_11 when I added an episode to Emby, it filled in all the details with the closest match it could find on tvdb (my main provider), which ended up being "Chicago, PD". Even if I would edit the metadata, remove the wrong ids and insert the correct IMDB id, Emby wanted to auto fill with something from my main provider choice. I even added the show to TMDB, thinking two IDs might win out, but it still always went back to Chicago, PD. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/156297-police If there was a "lock" option then I could put in the correct imdb and tmdb ids, Emby would ignore the empty tvdb box, and the correct info would be inserted. Plus I could keep the main provider I want for all other shows. Edited February 15, 2022 by Bigmack3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8238 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 This could be used when there is a miss match of data between providers by locking to a specific providerid and being able to lock to a empty provider. Say Looney Tunes as you have to lock the entire series or you get mismatching id. So technically if primary provider does not have all info then secondary will be completely wrong. An option like this is needed or per show provider options. This this would probably be the easier route. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogee 17 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) I'd like to echo the others and show my interest in this as I'm currently getting very irritated with exactly this for the animated show called "Doomlands" As it's in my "Animated" library which primarily consists of Japanese anime, my preferred metadata providers are AniDB/AniList etc above all else with TVDB/IMDB at the bottom so manually identifying "Doomlands" (TVDB: 415069 / IMDB: tt17163920), the real data is overridden by the incorrect anime of "Doomed Megalopolis" as Doomlands doesn't exist as an anime It's not the first time I've run into the issue so being able to lock ID's would be a valuable addition. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what Happy2Play has said but a single button to lock all ID's per show (such as the "People"/"Genres" etc locks) would make more sense than locking empty ID's? But either way, I'm not really fussed on the how, just as long as there is an option to do any kind of locking of ID's so we can have just the correct ID's and prevent any mismatched ID's from being added. Edited March 16, 2022 by diogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 Just checking if this is something that could be added in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 When a provider id is filled in, I don't believe we ever actually change it, so that's why a lock should not be necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Luke said: When a provider id is filled in, I don't believe we ever actually change it, so that's why a lock should not be necessary. This is to lock out providers on certain shows, as the examples above show. It's so you can put in an id from tvdb for a show but lock imdb and tmdb from finding contradicting information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 OK. Locking the provider id would not actually accomplish that. It sounds like what you're really asking for is the equivalent of the library options at the individual item level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 Possibly. If we take a look at the screenshot that Happy2play posted: On 2/15/2022 at 4:43 PM, Happy2Play said: This could be used when there is a miss match of data between providers by locking to a specific providerid and being able to lock to a empty provider. Say Looney Tunes as you have to lock the entire series or you get mismatching id. So technically if primary provider does not have all info then secondary will be completely wrong. An option like this is needed or per show provider options. This this would probably be the easier route. In this example, I want the option to deleted the ids from TMDB and IMDB, and then lock/uncheck them so Emby doesn't search them for this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8238 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Luke said: OK. Locking the provider id would not actually accomplish that. It sounds like what you're really asking for is the equivalent of the library options at the individual item level. Yes if we cannot lock empty providerids then item level metadata provider selector to only query selected provider. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 Any more thought into this one? I'm having trouble with another series now. "Untold" only exists properly in tvdb: https://thetvdb.com/series/407414-untold Emby keeps forcing a different show, "Noted: Untold stories of alicia keys", to connect for Imdb and tmdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15718472/ https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/157185-noted-alicia-keys-the-untold-stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8238 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Yes, as in that case TMDB and IMDB treats each documentary as a Movie vs TVDB showing it as a Series. So current options are to clear wrong provider ids, disable providers that won't work, Refresh metadata, lock metadata and reenable providers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 I know that's one of the options, but it's just such a horribly inconvenient way of doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 Any updates to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 7 hours ago, Bigmack3000 said: Any updates to this? Hi, not yet, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 Are there any plans to implement it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Yes it's certainly something that can be looked at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 849 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Kinda related, but if I manually identify something that's been misidentified, anything that has no info in the correct identification retains the incorrect identification. For example, if it's incorrectly identified as something that has an IMDB ID and a TMDB ID, then I manually identify it as something with only a TMDB ID, the incorrect IMDB ID is retained. Same goes for artwork. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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