Advice please for quickest metadata removal fix for a TV series !

[Gaz 20]

Guys hope you can please help with some advice please! What's the quickest 'fix' to totally remove the metadata stored for a specific TV series please? I've spent ages getting all my 'Miami Vice' TV episodes sorted into the correct playing order as the TV company screwed up the airing of the scheduled episodes when it was originally aired back in the day. My metadaat is stored in library.db and not individual xml files in the TV series folder. Because the metadata has already been retrieved no matter how many times I try to delete the names of the incorrect episodes in the metadata manager it always goes back to what was origianlly downloaded so I need to scrub all metadata belonging to the series. None of the metatdata retrieval websites have the correct running order available so I'd prefer to have no metatdat for the show than the incorrect data linked to the revised episode order. I also tried downloading a free SQL database manager to see if I could manually edit the stored data but the program crashed due to the size of my library.db file! when I tried opening it! Would really welcome any ideas on what's the quickest and fastest method to do this metadata removal. Sincere thanks in advance.

[Happy2Play 9780]

@GazIdentify at Show level is the normal way, but if online providers are incorrect there is not a way.

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But if you are editing what comes for providers you will need to Lock the Series or these episodes.

Now you could probably remove the Show do a full scan to clear the database entries, disable all providers and readd the Show so you have no metadata.

[Gaz 20]

Thanks so much for the reply @Happy2Play, it's greatly appreciated!

I've tried everything I can do delete the metadata using the GUI, come offline and then re-added the TV Show as you describe but because EMBY has already brought down the metadata for the show it idetifies the show 'Miami Vice' and keep on using the metadata it has for the show regardless if it's been locked or not, hence why I thought the only way to fix this was to be told what steps need to be taken to remove the metadata for 'Miami Vice' from the library.dl? Is this the only way I can fix this issue do you know or have I overlooked an alternative method?
 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Gaz

[pwhodges 2012]

31 minutes ago, Gaz said:

I've tried everything I can do delete the metadata using the GUI, come offline and then re-added the TV Show as you describe

You need to run a full scan without the series present before you re-add it.

Paul

[CharleyVarrick 283]

If I understand the question correctly, here's what I'd do:

From  your tv series master folder, move (cut) the serie folder you wish to work on.

Paste this serie folder to an unmonitored location.

Open serie and season(s) folders and delete all metadata files (.nfo, .srt, .jpg)

Wait a few minutes and make sure Real Time Monitor has ackowledged the removal of the show.

Cut and paste the show folder back to original location.

Within minutes, Emby's RTM will detect the show as new.  

Edited February 4, 2023 by CharleyVarrick

[Luke 42079]

HI, has this helped?

[Gaz 20]

Guys sorry for keeping this thread alive, this issue is causing such a headache as I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong!

As suggested above I've removed the TV show from my library, deleted all .jpg  .nfo .srt files etc and disconnected the internet followed by doing a full system scan to ensure the TV show no longer shows up. I've then left it a good few minutes and then re-added the TV show back to my TV library and within just a few minutes the metadata began recreating itself by creating .nfo files in my 'Miami Vice' folders regardless of the internet being disconnected which I'm assuming is down to whatever data is being stored in my 'librabry.dll' file?

So if I manually delete all these recreated .nfo files is there anything else I can do to ensure no metadata is retrieved for this show?

Thanks in advance

[rbjtech 5284]

Do you want to manually create (or correct) the metadata instead ?

For each episode - you can then .lock the data so it won't be overwritten with subsequent scans etc.

You could then probably keep some of the provider provided info (cast, overview etc) but just correct the play order ?

Emby must have metadata of sorts, even if it's empty.