Episode information missing

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I have one show in a library type TV Shows that has no episode information. IMDB, TMDB and TVDB Ids are correctly identified in the metadata for the show.

There appears to be no episode information yet in the TVDB, but web pages for IMDB and TMDB both carry episode information for the show.

In Kodi, selecting either TMDB or TVDB also give no episode information, but selecting "TMDB TV Shows" does. There is no option to select IMDB as a scraper in Kodi.

Can anyone see any reason why Emby is not picking up episode information from IMDB and/or TMDB?

TIA!

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, what is the name of the show?
Can you give me a couple file names for this series?

I'd like to do a quick test trying a couple things to see if there is a simple work-around for this.

Carlo

[raymondjpg 16]

2 hours ago, Carlo said:

Hi, what is the name of the show?
Can you give me a couple file names for this series?

I'd like to do a quick test trying a couple things to see if there is a simple work-around for this.

Carlo

Thanks Carlo.

Show name is Ridley, or Ridley 2022. Episode list at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14772170/episodes/?season=2

Edit:

I set up two files based on episode names in IMDB:

Ridley S02E01  A Sleeping Tiger, Part 1.mkv
Ridley S02E02  A Sleeping Tiger, Part 2.mkv

Emby parsed the episodes with correct episode descriptions, but incorrect episode names. It looks like it was taking information from the movie database at https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/132306-ridley/season/2 but was unable to interpret the episode names with part numbers in brackets at the end i.e. A Sleeping Tiger (1) and A Sleeping Tiger (2).

Kodi correctly listed the two episodes as "A Sleeping Tiger (1)" and "A Sleeping Tiger (2)".

 

Edited October 4, 2024 by raymondjpg
Additional information

[rbjtech 5284]

This show is a little broken because TVDB has the show listed as single parts and no metadata.

Ensure TMDB is added as part of your Episode downloaders and it will pick up the metadata from that.

HOWEVER - the issue is that depending on your provider rankings,  it's picking up the Series/Show and posibly Season from one metadata provider (that is wrong) and the Episode from another - that is correct ..

They way around it is temporarily disable TVDB as an Episode provider, then refresh the show (using TMDB) - and when done LOCK the metadata - and finally put TVDB back.

Edited October 4, 2024 by rbjtech

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3 hours ago, rbjtech said:

They way around it is temporarily disable TVDB as an Episode provider, then refresh the show (using TMDB) - and when done LOCK the metadata - and finally put TVDB back.

Good idea! I'll try that.

[rbjtech 5284]

It should work - mine did ..

[rbjtech 5284]

.. but do note the now annoying 'feature' added where it now gets the Season name as part of the Season capture - so now I now have a 'Season 1' and a 'Series 2' ... 

@LukeCan we please stop making these undocumented/untested updates on the Release fork ..

I now have to go in and manually edit the Season name back to Season 2..

[GrimReaper 4740]

11 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

.. but do note the now annoying 'feature' added where it now gets the Season name as part of the Season capture - so now I now have a 'Season 1' and a 'Series 2' ... 

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