Recording to wrong series folder

[Guest]

Hello,

I've set up a recording for Family Feud (1999). That's how the series is recognized on TheTVDB. When the first episode recorded, Emby created a folder Family Feud (1976). The series itself appears to be correct, because it's storing the folders out to Season 25 which is the current season. So, I renamed the series folder to Family Feud (1999) and allowed Emby to rescan, thinking maybe once it realized the series folder already exists (by ID, since it clearly has the right ID just the wrong folder name) it would just use it.

But, instead it created Family Feud (1976) and started putting new episodes there again.

I don't see some way to override this in the recording settings.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[Guest]

Actually, doesn't look like it's picking up the series correctly. Says 1976 to 1985 below.

How do I correct this confusion?

[Luke 42080]

HI, what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library and in what order?

What do both of those series have for external ids in the metadata editor?

[Guest]

 

 

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Presumably it's matching on Family Feud 1976 because in the guide the series name is "Family Feud", which matches to https://thetvdb.com/series/family-feud. Rather than Family Feud (1999) which would match to https://thetvdb.com/series/family-feud-1999.

It does recognize that the series episodes are party of Season 25, but since the series ID is wrong no episode information is pulled in. It's just a video name "##" (the episode number) in the episode folder.

Ideally I would be able to override the series id in the recording configuration, using the same Identify functionality that exists elsewhere.

[Guest]

@Luke any ideas

[Luke 42080]

Let's see what we get purely from guide data. Try removing both family feud folders from your library and running a scan to clear them out of the database.

Then disable all metadata fetchers, record a new episode, and let's see where it ends up going.