Anime DB Tiles not being matched correctly or at all despite the act

[CheshireKitten 1]

Anime DB Tiles are not being matched correctly or at all despite the AniDB ID being in the name of the movies and the name of the film being in its original language matching AniDB. Is there any way to fix this otherwise I have to go into each title and fix it manually... Unfortunately, it's like it was NOT made for anime as it only does half the work for me and even creates more work for me. i did not find anything on this subject when I did a quick search. I attached one example although it's not a good one as I fixed most of the issues and afraid to reset the metadata at this point as I manually matched 20+ titles.

[CheshireKitten 1]

a better example. it didn't match it at all despite everything being there.

Edited October 1, 2024 by CheshireKitten
lack of info

[Carlo 4560]

Hi, @CheshireKitten,

I saw in your other post you are renaming your folders/media files so the media matches the folder name.
Could you try this again after you have completed the naming on the media?

Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

Thanks,
Carlo

[Happy2Play 9780]

What is the library content type?

2 hours ago, CheshireKitten said:

Anime DB Tiles are not being matched correctly or at all despite the AniDB ID being in the name of the movies and the name of the film being in its original language matching AniDB.

@LukeDoes Emby use anime providerids?

But will probably need to see the server log for the actual queries.

This is I would say quite normal for Anime and how it handled mixing Movies and Series is always going to be problematic and somewhat need to be its own content type.

[CheshireKitten 1]

The library content type is TV shows as that is what AniDB categorizes everything as and works fine when it recognizes the title and does not mislabel it or I manually select what it is and match it. I don't understand what these plugins are doing as they say very little so how would I know they don't match the ID. I thought the plugin was supposed to do that job especially if everything is its actual name and named properly. I would match it to TVDB, TMDB, or IMDB but they do not seem to match things properly just the same and I will have to rename everything for whatever reason despite having access to ANIDB and all the information needed to match the titles and being in its original title.

[CheshireKitten 1]

All the Anime is in its own Library in Emby and under TV Shows as that's what AniDB uses. All metadata comes only from the anime metadata plugins unless that is a mistake. I see no reason there should be an issue though as everything is there for it to match to.

Edited October 1, 2024 by CheshireKitten

[Luke 42077]

@CheshireKitten what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library and in what order?

[evil_crab 23]

AniDB metadata fetching is indeed hit and miss, but, for me personally, MAL as the primary fetcher with Anilist second and TVDB third work well.

[CheshireKitten 1]

I tried all sorts of arrangements of the metadata fetchers but this is the current arrangement and this is what my library looks like.

[evil_crab 23]

Here's my config and folder structure if it helps

[pwhodges 2012]

I found it best to ignore the anime providers added by the plugins and just use TVDB.  I have over 450 anime series (some little known) and 200 anime films, and TVDB/TMDB recognises every one of them.  Maybe a couple of dozen I had to tweak the naming to match or add the tvdbid/tmdbid to the folder name, but that ensures correct recognition remains for any future rescans (except for the non-zero series that TVDB has renumbered between the times I've needed to rescan!).

Paul