/Ky 3 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Hey guys, Okay so I found a couple of posts from around 4 years ago and just wondered if there is anything now that I can do as for example I have Defiance, Impratical Jokers & Primeval (TV series) on Emby and Defiance/Priveal have the same James Murray however the impractical jokers has a different James Murray but it shows the same actor for all 3 seasons - any way of pulling the individual actor? Thanks, Kyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Hi, so they're supposed to be different people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/Ky 3 Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 Hi Luke, Yes they are mate , same name different people. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615025/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2098978/ Hi, so they're supposed to be different people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 I think the next release of the server should handle this better. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/Ky 3 Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 Okie dokie, so for now there isn't a lot that I can do then I gather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Right, it's always been a tricky situation to handle due to handling people by name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/Ky 3 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KR!5 0 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Maybe create an automatic ID for them with their name followed by date of birth? I have no idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) There appears to be no change with this in beta. Tested on new portable 3.6.0.65 Only option is still edit Media metadata and change the persons name to something unique. Then manually identify the updated person with correct providerid. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/61779-same-name-different-person/?p=609220 Not sure how wrong image was acquired though. As providerids point to different Robert Taylor image. embyserver.txt Edited November 17, 2018 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 It is improved, but there are still limitations: tvdb actors have tvdb id's, but we don't store this and use it for matching. (i will correct this). when actors are saved to local metadata (nfo/xml), these are names only. that means when the local metadata gets read back in, they will be matched in the database by name because the nfo files doesn't have any id's for the actors. We will need to update the nfo saving so that it includes the tvdb/tmdb/imdb id of the actor. Actor information from Omdb is name only, so if you enable this provider and it fetches actors, they will be by name 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37068 Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Actually tvdb metadata doesn't have id's at the episode level for guest stars. that is a shame. it is all by name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
access 11 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 (edited) I just solved all this by hand, just putting (I), (II), (III) after each additional person and then redoing the meta data for their videos. Labores but I couldn't see a better way. This is how imdb solved it anyway. Edited April 22, 2021 by access Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillmacca01 150 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 That's what I have been thinking about doing, but it means going through every single actor, and I don't think I have the patience for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 There are changes to this in 4.6 but may require media Refresh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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