No Metadata for TV Shows / Series

[Mindshift 0]

I'm currently setting up a fresh install of Emby 4.7.2.0 (Docker/LSIO). While Metadata for my movie library gets found nearly on every title, literally zero of my tv shows get matched. I named all my files after the Plex naming scheme. For example:

9-1-1 - Lone Star {tvdb-364080}

Saw Spiral (2021) {tt10342730}

If I interpret the logs correctly the agent includes the {tvdb-xxxxxx} in the search, which is probably why nothing is found.

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2022-06-19 01:42:08.207 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:08.600 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=13 Reasons Why {tvdb 323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:08.932 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: 13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:08.932 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=x_secret1_x&query=13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}&language=en
2022-06-19 01:42:09.232 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=x_secret1_x&query=13 Reasons Why {tvdb 323168}&language=en
2022-06-19 01:42:09.367 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:09.676 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=13 Reasons Why {tvdb 323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:10.153 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: 13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}
2022-06-19 01:42:10.153 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=x_secret1_x&query=13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}&language=en
2022-06-19 01:42:10.455 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=x_secret1_x&query=13 Reasons Why {tvdb 323168}&language=en

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, can you please show an exact example of your naming and organization of your series? Thanks.

[Mindshift 0]

13 Reasons Why {tvdb-323168}/Season 01/13 Reasons Why - S01E01 - WEBDL-1080p.mkv
Sons of Anarchy {tvdb-82696}/Season 03/Sons of Anarchy - S03E01 - Bluray-1080p.mkv
...

(Every Show follows this format)

Edit: I think I observed something interesting. When adding the year behind the name it seems to match. But there needs to be another solution, I can't just rename thousands of directories.

Edited June 19, 2022 by Mindshift

[GrimReaper 4740]

52 minutes ago, Mindshift said:

I named all my files after the Plex naming scheme.

If you wanna use providerIds with Emby, you should rename those to what Emby recognizes, in your example:

Series [tvdbid=xxxx]

and

Movie (Year) [imdbid=xxxx]

Though [tmdbid] is preferred for Movies. 

Edited June 19, 2022 by GrimReaper

[Mindshift 0]

Ah, ok so this kind of a naming scheme also exists. But I can't rename all these directories. I'm planning to use both products so when renaming, plex can't properly index them

[GrimReaper 4740]

1 minute ago, Mindshift said:

Ah, ok so this kind of a naming scheme also exists. But I can't rename all these directories. I'm planning to use both products so when renaming, plex can't properly index them

Don't know if adding (YEAR) in your TV Shows name would act like a delimiter even if retaining current naming convention, try it on some, maybe they get Identified. 

[Mindshift 0]

I now added some titles which include the year by default, eg. Charmed (2018) which indeed get properly indexed. (The folder does not contain any brackets around the year.)

[GrimReaper 4740]

Save manually identifying one by one show within Emby UI, I don't see other means to ensure compatibility with both software except renaming/appending those folders, either manually or with 3-rd party software (eg. FileBot, TMM...). 

[Mindshift 0]

Yes, adding the year does indeed work. But I have feeling that then the provider id's get completely ignored. A 'universal' solution would be ideal, as with the movie library. Should be fairly easy to implement. Instead of [tvdbid=xxxxxx] also look for {tvdb-xxxxxx} etc. - Could be quite useful for others who make the switch

I really can't rename all these files. I use a clustered filesystem across multiple nodes which doesn't play nice when renaming data.

Edited June 19, 2022 by Mindshift

[Mindshift 0]

When manually matching, this happens:

[GrimReaper 4740]

2 minutes ago, Mindshift said:

When manually matching, this happens:

That doesn't seem to have been matched, you're missing a lot of data that should display on that screen. Three-dot menu>Identify. 

[GrimReaper 4740]

9 minutes ago, Mindshift said:

Yes, adding the year does indeed work. But I have feeling that then the provider id's get completely ignored.

Of course it does, you can't make Emby understand something it just doesn't understand. 

10 minutes ago, Mindshift said:

Instead of [tvdbid=xxxxxx] also look for {tvdb-xxxxxx} etc. - Could be quite useful for others who make the switch

That is up to the Devs to decide, though same argument could be made on the other side, as well. 

[Luke 42078]

I've never seen that naming before with the external ids in brackets. Yes it's possible to support, it's just never come up before.

[iloveparks 7]

Yes, unfortunately the stupid brackets was a Plex naming scheme change maybe a year or two back.

It would be nice if all 3 major platforms supported the same naming conventions, it gets a little difficult to run all 3 in parallel when naming conventions differ ever so slightly.

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Yes I'm surprised it's never come up before.