Columbo on Blu-Ray

[jackthedoc 12]

I have just added The Blu-ray edition of Columbo, series 1 to my Emby Server, and I find that some of the episodes don't have "place holders"

The first 2 episodes (Prescription: Murder; Ransom for a Dead Man) are classified as Pilot, the 3rd episode (Murder by the Book) is considered s01e01 so everything is out of sync.

I have no idea how to correct this. Should the Pilot episodes have a folder called "Pilot" or be included in the first season folder?

Either way, this is far beyond my skills to modify.

Can someone help me with this?

John Norris
 

 

[GrimReaper 4749]

Didn't quite understand your issue, care to share a screenshot of your current folder contents? 

Edit: I've figured what's happening: you have TMDB as primary meta-scraper in your TV shows library. Either raise TVDB on top and rescrape, or move first two episodes to Season 0 and rename as S00E01 and S00E02 as they are listed on TMDB and refresh metadata. 

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/873-columbo/seasons

TVDB (Season 1: 9 eps) and TMDB (Specials: 2 eps + Season 1: 7 eps) list those differently, choose which one suits you more. 

Edited January 10, 2022 by GrimReaper
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[jackthedoc 12]

Thanks, that is precisely the issue: Now my dilemma is how to put what you have told me into practice

Where do I find these meta-scraper entries?

Sincere thanks for your rapid response...

 

John Norris

[GrimReaper 4749]

Settings>Library tab, click on library thumb or three-dot-menu>Edit library, meta-providers are ranked by priority (highest one is on top), you can move them up/down with the arrows next to provider name.

[jackthedoc 12]

Perfetto,

Thanks

JN (pretending that he is Italian)

[jackthedoc 12]

PS what is the difference between Series and Season metadata, apart from the fact that we Aussies use the same terminology as our UK friends in calling a collection of related episodes a series in contradistinction to our US colleagues who call this collection a season?

And why does Series have multiple sources while Season has only one ?
 

Thanks

JN

[GrimReaper 4749]

 

14 minutes ago, jackthedoc said:

what is the difference between Series and Season

Series is a TV show as a whole, while Season is a grouping of episodes within that show (can be based on year or on any criteria the creators see fit), single Series can have one or more Seasons. 

14 minutes ago, jackthedoc said:

And why does Series have multiple sources while Season has only one ?

AFAIK TVDB v3 API did not return Season metadata, only TMDB did. Don't know whether that changed with v4 API, maybe @Happy2Play might have some insight there. 

[jackthedoc 12]

Thanks for that.  Greatly appreciated.

Regards

John Norris

 

[Luke 42083]

How are your files named and organized?