Movies won't identify correctly

[kmjsmith 0]

Hi my movies won't identify correctly on emby but will just fine on plex any idea how to get the settings right so they can identify properly clearly this isn't a folder structure issue

[Abobader 3470]

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[GrimReaper 4748]

2 minutes ago, kmjsmith said:

clearly this isn't a folder structure issue

Which might or might not be true, as they're not same software. How are your files named and organized? Exact example would also be welcomed.

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[kmjsmith 0]

E:MEGA/MOVIES/AMERICAN PIE COLLECTION/AMERICAN PIE 1 (1999)/AMERICAN PIE 1 (1999).MP4. 

then replace 1 with 2 3 5 6. But for some reason only the first movie won't identify on emby but will on plex.  Another example. 

 

E:mega/movies/The grey (****)/the grey(****). MP4.  Won't identify the correct metadata wrong Metadata... 

[GrimReaper 4748]

4 hours ago, kmjsmith said:

E:MEGA/MOVIES/AMERICAN PIE COLLECTION/AMERICAN PIE 1 (1999)/AMERICAN PIE 1 (1999).MP4

There's no movie American Pie 1 (1999). Remove that "1", rescan. 

4 hours ago, kmjsmith said:

E:mega/movies/The grey (****)/the grey(****). MP4

What are those ****? Do they stand for Year or? 

[Luke 42083]

4 hours ago, kmjsmith said:

E:mega/movies/The grey (****)/the grey(****). MP4.  Won't identify the correct metadata wrong Metadata... 

Right again please provide exact examples so that we can better help you. Thanks.

How to Report a Problem

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

Yes as the log will show you what it is trying to find.

Queries with no results.

2023-04-04 19:06:32.698 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: american pie 1
2023-04-04 19:06:32.799 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=‌f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669‌&query=american pie 1&language=en&year=1999
2023-04-04 19:06:32.928 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=‌fe53f97e‌&plot=full&r=json&y=1999&s=american pie 1&type=movie

 

[Junglejim 385]

9 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

There's no movie American Pie 1 (1999). Remove that "1", rescan. 

What are those ****? Do they stand for Year or? 

Maybe he means this, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/75174-the-grey. But just a guess.

Not sure why he put **** instead of the actual year, strange...

[Darkseidd 59]

found some useful tips around forum.

 

at folder where you media is inside, add [tmdbid=xxxxxx] or [tvdbid=xxxxxx] after the movie name, at folder level

 

the id should be retrieved from tmdb/tvdb respective site..

Edited April 5, 2023 by Darkseidd

[GrimReaper 4748]

1 hour ago, Darkseidd said:

found some useful tips around forum.

 

at folder where you media is inside, add [tmdbid=xxxxxx] or [tvdbid=xxxxxx] after the movie name, at folder level

 

the id should be retrieved from tmdb/tvdb respective site..

As denoted in the KB article:

Quote

ID Tags in Folder & File Names

Emby can also read a Meta-Data ID from the name.

Format:

Name (Year) [tmdbid=xxxx]

Example:

Alone (2020) [tmdbid=509635]

Emby supports the following tags with the host website for lookup.

tmdbid  (https://www.themoviedb.org/)

imdbid  (https://www.imdb.com/)

tvdbid  (https://thetvdb.com/)

 

Note:  tmdbid is the prefered tag to use for most uses

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming

 

[kmjsmith 0]

Yeh sorry I put (xxxx) because I didn't know the year.  But the year is 2011.  

[kmjsmith 0]

[Junglejim 385]

Is it this movie? If it is try (2012)...

That could fix it maybe

Edited April 6, 2023 by Junglejim

[Junglejim 385]

That's weird, I just DL the movie "The Grey (2011)" (mybad ) to test and it scraped fine with the same naming as you "The Grey (2011)/The Grey (2011).mp4"

Notice the year is scraped 2012 from TMDB even though I named the movie 2011..

How are your Movie Metadata Downloaders ordered?

Edited April 6, 2023 by Junglejim

[pwhodges 2012]

In case of difficulty identifying, it is always worthwhile to look up the movie/series manually on the appropriate website (TMDB, TVDB) to see what their preferred form of the name is and what year they have recorded.  Then adjust your naming to match your preferred source for that item type and you should have no more problems.  In rare extreme cases (e.g. multiple movies with the same name and year - it happens!), adding the site's id may be necessary for automatic recognition.

Paul

Edited April 6, 2023 by pwhodges