Emby can't properly identify a few movies

[wakeboarder141 29]

I have a few movies that I always have to manually identify, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to name these movies so that they will automatically get identified properly.  I normally name my movies as "Movie.1991.mkv" or "Movie 1991.mkv", but both are picking the wrong movies even if the year doesn't match.  Perhaps there is some naming convention I can use that I am overlooking here.  The offending films I have seen so far are:

Fast & Furious 2009, End of The Game 1975, Green Lantern 2011 (Not Emerald Knights), Stephen King's IT 1990, Unleashed 2005, Transformers 2007

Edited January 20, 2021 by wakeboarder141

[AVRider 3]

My advice is to surround the year with parenthesis (2009), or brackets [2009]. If you are on a Windows machine you can use MS "Power Toys" utility to do a mass find and rename the mkv file.

Find "2009" replace with "(2009)"

[wakeboarder141 29]

1 hour ago, AVRider said:

My advice is to surround the year with parenthesis (2009), or brackets [2009]. If you are on a Windows machine you can use MS "Power Toys" utility to do a mass find and rename the mkv file.

Find "2009" replace with "(2009)"

I can't seem to find any combination that will make it identify correctly.  I have tried Transformers.(2007).mkv, Transformers (2007).mkv and also with [ ] instead and all of them still scan in as Transformers: Beginnings (2006)

[Happy2Play 8273]

Yes there are some defects when trying to get info from TMDB and can get them wrong.  As the TMDB lists Transformers: Beginnings (2006) as the first result.

I believe there is still a +/- year variance as release year can vary by a year is some cases.

2021-01-20 18:19:22.102 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Transformers
2021-01-20 18:19:22.104 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 196 ms
2021-01-20 18:19:22.301 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Transformers&language=en
2021-01-20 18:19:22.441 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 159 ms
2021-01-20 18:19:22.614 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/25565?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2021-01-20 18:19:22.708 Debug App: Running OmdbItemProvider for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm
2021-01-20 18:19:22.717 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=fe53f97e&i=tt1236486&plot=short&tomatoes=true&r=json
2021-01-20 18:19:22.866 Debug App: Running BaseGenreCleaner for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm

You can manually Identify to correct or the fail safe method is adding providerid in the naming scheme and you will never get invalid results.

see the "ID Tags in Folder & File Names" section in the kb.

Emby Movie Naming : Emby

 

[wakeboarder141 29]

3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes there are some defects when trying to get info from TMDB and can get them wrong.  As the TMDB lists Transformers: Beginnings (2006) as the first result.

I believe there is still a +/- year variance as release year can vary by a year is some cases.

2021-01-20 18:19:22.102 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Transformers
2021-01-20 18:19:22.104 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 196 ms
2021-01-20 18:19:22.301 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Transformers&language=en
2021-01-20 18:19:22.441 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 159 ms
2021-01-20 18:19:22.614 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/25565?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2021-01-20 18:19:22.708 Debug App: Running OmdbItemProvider for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm
2021-01-20 18:19:22.717 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=fe53f97e&i=tt1236486&plot=short&tomatoes=true&r=json
2021-01-20 18:19:22.866 Debug App: Running BaseGenreCleaner for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm

You can manually Identify to correct or the fail safe method is adding providerid in the naming scheme and you will never get invalid results.

see the "ID Tags in Folder & File Names" section in the kb.

Emby Movie Naming : Emby

 

Thank you for the explanation.  I will check that out.

[wakeboarder141 29]

3 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

see the "ID Tags in Folder & File Names" section in the kb.

Emby Movie Naming : Emby

 

That works great.  I was hoping there was an option like this so I can stop manually identifying movies every time I move my server around.  Thanks!

Edited January 21, 2021 by wakeboarder141

[wakeboarder141 29]

On 1/20/2021 at 6:29 PM, Happy2Play said:

You can manually Identify to correct or the fail safe method is adding providerid in the naming scheme and you will never get invalid results.

One movie that I can not get to work even by manually identifying is "It 1990."  I tried using all of the DB Id's and even using identify with the ID numbers, but I can't get it to pick it up.  I know it was considered more of a Mini series instead of movie, but it has worked in the past with the IMDB ID.  Now even that won't identify it.

[Happy2Play 8273]

2 minutes ago, wakeboarder141 said:

One movie that I can not get to work even by manually identifying is "It 1990."  I tried using all of the DB Id's and even using identify with the ID numbers, but I can't get it to pick it up.  I know it was considered more of a Mini series instead of movie, but it has worked in the past with the IMDB ID.  Now even that won't identify it.

Yes this has been brought up before.

Incorrect Metadata for Stephen King's It (1990) - General/Windows - Emby Community

You have to have to use OMDB as they are the only provider that has it as a Movie.

[wakeboarder141 29]

12 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

You have to have to use OMDB as they are the only provider that has it as a Movie.

 

Interesting, thanks.  Somehow I made it work with IMDB previously. 

[wakeboarder141 29]

11 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

You have to have to use OMDB as they are the only provider that has it as a Movie.

I could not get anything to identify IT even with OMDB enabled so I followed the last instructions on there about moving it to TV, identifying it, then moving it back.  Now I can't seem to find it in my movies at all.

[Carlo 4330]

See if by chance it shows up as "Pet Sematary". If so bring up the Meta-Data editor and self correct title and anything not correct.

This is technically a tv mini-series not a movie so it does complicate things.

[wakeboarder141 29]

1 hour ago, cayars said:

See if by chance it shows up as "Pet Sematary". If so bring up the Meta-Data editor and self correct title and anything not correct.

This is technically a tv mini-series not a movie so it does complicate things.

I already had Pet Sematary, but IT didn't change to that.  I'm not sure where it disappeared to.  I have a 4K library, and a lower res shared library.  I got it identified fine a while back in the 4k library using IMDBid, but can't get the smaller version fixed.

[Carlo 4330]

If you have NFO being save with the media you can open that file and take a look.

If you're suer stuck and can't figure it out you can look in DB using SQL.

Edited January 26, 2021 by cayars

[wakeboarder141 29]

12 minutes ago, cayars said:

If you have NFO being save with the media you can open that file and take a look.

If you're suer stuck and can't figure it out you can look in DB using SQL.

Unfortunately I don't have it saving as NFO files.  If I can't get it back, I will look into SQL.  Thanks.

[Carlo 4330]

Let us know.  I could put together a SQL executable and the SQL for you quite quickly so all you'd have to do is shut down Emby so the database isn't locked and then run a batch file that will pull the info for you.

I'd just need to know the file name as stored on disc.

[wakeboarder141 29]

I can't seem to find that movie anywhere, and a lot of my collections are also going crazy and making movies disappear so I'm not sure if that is related or not.  I started a new topic about the collections problem.

[Carlo 4330]

Turn on NFO writing and move this folder out of the library, scan then move back in and scan.

You should now see an ID written which you can use to see what it matched to.

If you're running the beta you just got the new collections feature.

Perform a full library scan and see if collections go back to normal.

[wakeboarder141 29]

I will try that.  Thanks.  I don't think I'm running the beta version of the server, just the Emby client on my Shield. I can try updating to that to see if it helps the libraries.