Meta data for old Nick cartoons

[cr0wbaar 0]

I recently downloaded some old nickelodeon cartoons like Rocket Power and Rugrats but am having some problems with the meta data.

 

Back in the day, these cartoons would play as back to back 10-15 min eps. This is how they are on my computer as well, 1 file, 2 episodes. When I uploaded them on emby, it seems the meta data is separating everything into single eps even though they are double.

 

I've attached a screen shot showing both the location of the actual files with their naming of both episodes, and the emby server, which is currently mislabeling them.

 

In my screenshot, for example, the episode 1 file on my computer contains the episodes "Rocket Repairs + Say Hello to Cement Head" but in my emby, it separates them, but what it is really doing is labeling the episode 2 file, which on my computer is "Shark Bait + A Show in the Park"  as "Say Hello to Cement Head" even though that is part of the first episode.

 

Is there anyway to find the correct meta data for this or will I have to change them all manually?

Edited June 5, 2020 by cr0wbaar

[pwhodges 1523]

TVDB numbers the (half) episodes separately. 

 

 

So your s02e01 will be correctly identified if you call it s02e01-e02, then your s02e02 should be so2e03-e04, and so on.

 

Paul

[cr0wbaar 0]

TVDB numbers the (half) episodes separately. 

 

 

So your s02e01 will be correctly identified if you call it s02e01-e02, then your s02e02 should be so2e03-e04, and so on.

 

Paul

 

 

Okay, so I should just rename the files on my computer to match the episode numbers instead of the current labling of  A+B?

[pwhodges 1523]

That's right.  Emby just sends the show name with season and episode number that you give it, using TVDB's api - there's no intelligence of the sort which might work out that your numbers are different, nor is there any awareness of episode names.

 

I typically look a show up on TVDB before adding it, just to check that I am naming it in the way that it will recognise (this is particularly important with anime, where there may be different translations of the show's title, and TVDB may or may not use the Japanese name) - this saves angst later when it gets it wrong!  It may also warn of possible problems (e.g. confusion between "Blood" and "Blood+" which are unrelated shows).

 

Sometimes there's no easy solution other than manually identifying.  For instance, Vienna Blood (that word again!) was shown as six episodes in the US and three episodes in the UK.  TVDB lists six, but TMDB lists it as three (which is the natural way, and corresponds to my recording), so I manually identified it using the TMDB code to force the version I wanted.  If I had used the TVDB numbering and combined pairs of episodes, each one would have got the rather tedious name: "story name part one, story name part two" instead of just "story name" (OK, I could have edited the metadata to tidy that up - there's more than one way to skin a cat).

 

Paul

Edited June 5, 2020 by pwhodges

[cr0wbaar 0]

That's right.  Emby just sends the show name with season and episode number that you give it, using TVDB's api - there's no intelligence of the sort which might work out that your numbers are different, nor is there any awareness of episode names.

 

I typically look a show up on TVDB before adding it, just to check that I am naming it in the way that it will recognise (this is particularly important with anime, where there may be different translations of the show's title, and TVDB may or may not use the Japanese name) - this saves angst later when it gets it wrong!  It may also warn of possible problems (e.g. confusion between "Blood" and "Blood+" which are unrelated shows).

 

Sometimes there's no easy solution other than manually identifying.  For instance, Vienna Blood (that word again!) was shown as six episodes in the US and three episodes in the UK.  TVDB lists six, but TMDB lists it as three (which is the natural way, and corresponds to my recording), so I manually identified it using the TMDB code to force the version I wanted.  If I had used the TVDB numbering and combined pairs of episodes, each one would have got the rather tedious name: "story name part one, story name part two" instead of just "story name" (OK, I could have edited the metadata to tidy that up - there's more than one way to skin a cat).

 

Paul

 

awesome thanks, def gonna be a pain renaming everything manually but its showing up in emby correctly now as I do it and refresh.