How is Emby matching the movies?

[Tangsgod 22]

I wanted to know how Emby is doind to match the movies from a librairie.

Coming from Plex, I see some differences when the same file is matched with Emby.

I would say that Emby is matching the movies from the name file rather than the name of its folder.
For Exemple

folder name  (year) > file name (year) > what Emby match
(The Butterfly Effect 3 Revelations (2009)>The Butterfly Effect 3 (2009)) Emby didn't match

I also notice that when the name of a movie how has an accent but it's not written on the folder of the file name, Emby will stick to it even if the year of the movie is false.
For Exemple

folder name  (year) > file name (year) > what Emby match
Movie: Brüno 2009
Bruno (2009)>Bruno (2009) Emby matched: Bruno (2000)

Movie: Banzï (1983)
Banzi (1983)>Banzi (1983) Emby matched: Banzi 1978

Movie: Connectés (2020)
Connectes (2020)>Connectes (2020) Emby matched: Connected (2021)

I just notice now, the movie:  Daughters of Darkness (1971) is matched by Emby as Daughters of Darkness (2000) that is a X movie....
May me remember that Emby match a movie called Hysteria as Ass Hysteria that was a X movie, and Double Trouble also mixed with an X movie...

 

 

This is just few exemples, but the list go on. For those same movies Plex made the good match.
Maybe there is some room to have a better agent or algorithm to match the movies?

 

I also want to add that the main issue here is not having the movies files and folders names exactly after the movies, so, my bad, but maybe there is still something to do

Edited February 6, 2022 by Tangsgod

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

@Tangsgod Are you actually using all those parentheses in the file/folder name. If so it is wrong. For correct matching the basic movie naming goes:
MovieName (year) [anything you want in the file name but Emby should ignore]
Add a ".ext" (without the quotes) for the actual movie file itself.
Anything in square brackets is ignored by Emby and only the year should be inside parentheses and nothing except required stuff should be outside square brackets.

An example is:
A Man for All Seasons (1966) .mp4

 

[Tangsgod 22]

3 minutes ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

@Tangsgod Are you actually using all those parentheses in the file/folder name. If so it is wrong. For correct matching the basic movie naming goes:
MovieName (year) [anything you want in the file name but Emby should ignore]
Add a ".ext" (without the quotes) for the actual movie file itself.
Anything in square brackets is ignored by Emby and only the year should be inside parentheses and nothing except required stuff should be outside square brackets.

An example is:
A Man for All Seasons (1966) .mp4

 

No, of course not, sorry, there is not all those parentheses, it was to mark the folder. 
I just removed it.

Edited February 6, 2022 by Tangsgod

[Happy2Play 9783]

Please post the server log showing those items being imported/queried.

What is your metadata provider order?

But testing those specific examples above returned correct name (year) movies for me.

Only one I had a issue with was Banzï (1983) as I don't this them name anywhere.

Is it suppose to be Banzaï (1983)? Renaming found without issue.

   

But a wild guess is you have enabled allow adult metadata per your other comments about x movies.

 

[Tangsgod 22]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

Please post the server log showing those items being imported/queried.

What is your metadata provider order?

But testing those specific examples above returned correct name (year) movies for me.

Only one I had a issue with was Banzï (1983) as I don't this them name anywhere.

Is it suppose to be Banzaï (1983)? Renaming found without issue.

   

But a wild guess is you have enabled allow adult metadata per your other comments about x movies.

 

I'm sorry @Happy2Play but i did it few hours ago I don't know if it will be in the logs.
Did you made those match without the accent?
About the adult content it was turn ON for my first scan, I uncheck it after those.... errors...
My metadata providers:
 

embyserver.txt

[Tangsgod 22]

And this one is a good match, but the poster doesn't seem right.... in my opinion of course

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

As you can see TMDB returned garbage for Banzi and OMDB returned no results.

Quote

2022-02-06 21:54:19.358 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Banzi
2022-02-06 21:54:19.358 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Banzi&language=en
2022-02-06 21:54:19.552 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=fe53f97e&plot=full&r=json&s=Banzi&type=movie

Log clearly show getting the correct metadata and set proper providerid for "Connectés (2020)"

Quote

2022-02-06 21:31:01.713 Info App: Setting provider id's to item 1529-Connected: {"Tmdb":"753756"}

Same for Bruno (2009)

Quote

2022-02-06 17:38:09.500 Info App: Setting provider id's to item 1372-Bruno: {"Tmdb":"18480"}

 

7 minutes ago, Tangsgod said:

And this one is a good match, but the poster doesn't seem right.... in my opinion of course

 

Not enough info as it would have to have conflicting providerids.

Edited February 6, 2022 by Happy2Play

[Tangsgod 22]

For "Connectés (2020)" and Bruno (2009)  it shows the match when I identify the movies myself, not when it was matched by Emby that was few days ago

For Carlos it strange that the provider find the right show with good metadatas but miss the poster

[Happy2Play 9783]

2 minutes ago, Tangsgod said:

For Carlos it strange that the provider find the right show with good metadatas but miss the poster

What is your image provider order as it can be different the metadata order?  But I cannot reproduce anything you have shown here so far.  Your MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: queries all appear to return correct information.

[Tangsgod 22]

Here it is:

(Out of topic, I'm asking myself if I shouldn't update to the beta as some bugs that I report may have been already solved)

Edited February 6, 2022 by Tangsgod

[Happy2Play 9783]

17 minutes ago, Tangsgod said:

Here it is:

(Out of topic, I'm asking myself if I shouldn't update to the beta as some bugs that I report may have been already solved)

Can only guess you have mismatching series ids for TMDB and TVDB.

But this makes no since to me either as neither series has 20 seasons.  Assume bad naming scheme.

 

But all my tests here are in stable 4.6.7.0.

Edited February 6, 2022 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42085]

Does that season have any external ids set in the metadata editor?