Episodes' tmdbid in nfo files generated by emby were wrong

[gradypark86 0]

Hey guys, I have some trouble with the '<tmdbid>' in nfo file generated by emby.

For example, I refreshed the metadata of 'The Big Bang Theory' S11E01. Here are the contents of the nfo file:

  <imdbid>tt6673774</imdbid>
  <tvdbid>6112057</tvdbid>
  <tmdbid>91000</tmdbid>
  <runtime>21</runtime>
  <uniqueid type="tmdb">91000</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="tvdb">6112057</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="imdb">tt6673774</uniqueid>

The tvdbid and imdbid were correct, but the tmdbid was wrong, which the correct episode tmdbid is 1343852.

Furthermore, tmdbid of the whole season episodes are same, all 91000. Then I deleted all nfo files and refreshed the metadata again, it's still '91000'.

I randomly checked several episodes' tmdbid of other shows, all wrong. The tmdbid of movies and shows are correct, just episodes have problem.

I found this because history of trakt.tv is different from my actual history. I just watched 'Mom(2013)' S08E12, which trakt link showed in emby is 'https://trakt.tv/search/tmdb/167768?id_type=episode'. I clicked it and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward' S06E08 appeared. The trakt plugin used this wrong tmdbid to sync my watching history. Tvdb link (https://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&id=8251877) and imdb link (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14183276) are correct.

Here is my trakt history. But I don't know why the record of 'The Big Bang Theory'  S11E01 is correct, maybe there is no episode id 91000 in tmdb, so the trakt use the tvdbid or imdbid to sync.

I will attach the log file and nfo files. Thanks a lot.

nfo.zip embyserver.txt

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[Luke 42083]

Hi, can you reproduce this issue with a newly added show? If not, then there's probably no way at this point to know how those values got there given that it occurred in the past. It may require manual fixup at this point.

If you want to do them all at once then I would try using the Identify feature on the Series.

[gradypark86 0]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, can you reproduce this issue with a newly added show? If not, then there's probably no way at this point to know how those values got there given that it occurred in the past. It may require manual fixup at this point.

If you want to do them all at once then I would try using the Identify feature on the Series.

Hi Luke. Thanks for your reply. You are right, I just found that wrong tmdbids were generated by other tools. 

I tried Identify feature on one Series, and emby generate new nfo files. But tmdbid wasn't changed. I also tried modify the title and tvdbid of an episode randomly and re-identify the show, the title has been corrected, the wrong tvdbid that I modified was still there. Are these ids such as tmdbid, tvdbid can not changed by emby? Why ids still same as before after I deleted all nfo files and re-identify the show? Is there cache in emby causing this problem?

So I must delete the whole library and nfo files, then add shows to a new library to correct them? I'm so helpless.

Thanks again.

[Luke 42083]

When you do an identify on a series, it resets the external ids for the series based on what you select, but it doesn't reset them for the episodes underneath.

I'm guessing we should probably clear them out for every single season and episode @Happy2Play?

[Happy2Play 9783]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

When you do an identify on a series, it resets the external ids for the series based on what you select, but it doesn't reset them for the episodes underneath.

I'm guessing we should probably clear them out for every single season and episode @Happy2Play?

Ideally Identify should clear all metadata across the board for any Identify process.