Bad movie identification

[CX23882 1]

There are so many times where I have a movie named *exactly* as it appears in both the IMDB the TMDB, and Emby chooses something similar but a worse match.

Latest example, a file named "Frank (2021)". This appears as TMDB ID 889485, as "Frank (2021)" and in IMDB as tt13779414, as "Frank (2021)". So why does Emby identify it as "Uncle Frank (2020)". I have seen situations where the year of release differs from the year of production, and so there can be a similar film with the "other" year, and it that situation, sure, understandable, but that is not the case here. Emby is simply getting it wrong.

Does anyone else see this? I could include the IMDB ID in the filename (e.g. "{title} ({year}) [{imdbid}].ext") but that is (or should be) a little redundant if there is only one movie with that title and year.

Edited October 29, 2021 by CX23882

[Happy2Play 9782]

Dozens of topics on this as it is just the say name search on TMDB is problematic.

Just like a name year search technically is defective on TMDB for your example as it returns Frank 2014 and Frank 2021 when you do a distinctive "Frank 2021" search.

 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

17 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Dozens of topics on this as it is just the say name search on TMDB is problematic.

Just like a name year search technically is defective on TMDB for your example as it returns Frank 2014 and Frank 2021 when you do a distinctive "Frank 2021" search.

 

The "best" way I have found to overcome this limitation is to simply, once the movie involved is identified, maybe wrongly, I just do an "Identify" from the three dot menu on that movie and then choose the correct movie from the list returned. So far only once in many years has this failed to have the movie in the list returned and, once matched in this way, it remained matched in spite of library scans.

Emby, and Plex for that matter, is inconsistent in matching, at best.

[Happy2Play 9782]

Yes the somewhat fool proof way is by adding providerid.  But for as often as these match issues come up I don't think there is a answer.  The difference I see in other programs it pops up with options, instead to just picking a item from the returned query result.  But that would be monitored vs automated also.

ID Tags in Folder & File Names

Edited October 29, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42080]

HI, we are working on improving this. Thanks for the feedback.