IMDB Id Issue?

[kandiman 14]

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 ?

[Carlo 4560]

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.

[kandiman 14]

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

[gillmacca01 211]

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

[dcol 175]

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.

[Carlo 4560]

You mean like this?

[Happy2Play 9780]

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.

[dcol 175]

41 minutes ago, cayars said:

You mean like this?

How did you get the percentages?

[dcol 175]

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.

[Luke 42077]

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.

[dcol 175]

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

[Happy2Play 9780]

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.

[dcol 175]

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.

[Luke 42077]

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.

[Carlo 4560]

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?

[Luke 42077]

It's possible but without going into detail these are just best guesses based on what we commonly see.

[dcol 175]

Or should I just delete all the NFO files. Then refresh

[dcol 175]

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

[Luke 42077]

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?

[Happy2Play 9780]

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.

[dcol 175]

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.

[dcol 175]

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?

[Happy2Play 9780]

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.

[Luke 42077]

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There should be a better way.

Yes, the Identify feature.

[dcol 175]

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.