Let emby ignore the embeded metadata file date | YTDLP date wrong

[Pommes 12]

I am currently redoing/refreshing my emby install and i am trying to fix a problem i have had for years (NOT embys fault).

I got many youtube videos automatically downloaded and sorted by ytdlp, the thing is it set the date in the metadata wrong like 20210516 instead of 2021-05-16 so emby picks the videos up from the year 20210516 instead of 16 Mai 2021. In the file name the date is written correct in 2021-05-16. 

Whats the best way to fix this?

Is there a way that emby just ignores the metadata date and takes it from the filename?

This effect nearly 400k videofiles so manual fixing is out of question, do you know any good scripts that could fix this

Thx

[Luke 42085]

Hi, what do you mean by the year 20210516 ?

[Pommes 12]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, what do you mean by the year 20210516 ?

under year in emby it is shown as from this year (20 mil in the future)

[Happy2Play 9783]

Can you show a specific example of what shows in the UI and the embedded file data.

[Pommes 12]

9 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Can you show a specific example of what shows in the UI and the embedded file data.

thx for the reply

[Happy2Play 9783]

That is file name is there an embedded year if file metadata?

[Pommes 12]

37 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

That is file name is there an embedded year if file metadata?

yes and the embeded one is wrong, is there a way to let emby ignore it?

or sorry if this is the wrong place but does any of you know a good way/script to remove the embeded date?

Edited October 10, 2022 by Pommes

[Luke 42085]

4 hours ago, Pommes said:

thx for the reply

So in the metadata editor what value does it show for the year?

[Happy2Play 9783]

So the embedded tag has bad information.  There are no options to ignore embedded tags that I know of.

We would need to see the embedded tags.

But would assume the dev would have to parse the tag to 4 digits from a specific format.

[Luke 42085]

We do have a sanity check on the year value, but it is missing from one place, so maybe that is the problem .That's easily fixed.