Multiple actors with the same name question

[BillybobBilly 18]

I found a topic from like a decade ago that raised the issue but I couldn't find anything explaining why Emby is still having issues using actor metadata from within a movie/show's NFO to populate the actor info while browsing a server. NFOs get populated with the unique identification info automatically now while using software like TinyMediaManager.

Actors have unique identifying codes on sites like IMDB, so I'm not sure why Emby Server doesn't just apply unique identifying codes to the actors in a similar manner. Its really quite annoying to have actors mislabeled or connected to the wrong projects etc. and I get complaints about it from time to time from my users who're trying to find movies/shows specific actors are in.

So anyway, I'm just wondering what's up with this issue. Is the actor info too deep in the emby code to be mucked around with at this point?

Edited October 23, 2024 by BillybobBilly

[Luke 42079]

Hi, this has been long solved and yes we use those unique codes.

but you could still have duplicates if you have old data, actors that came from your nfo files without ids, or actors that came from a metadata source that doesn’t provide them. For example I believe moviedb is currently the only one that does.

[BillybobBilly 18]

On 10/23/2024 at 7:24 AM, Luke said:

Hi, this has been long solved and yes we use those unique codes.

but you could still have duplicates if you have old data, actors that came from your nfo files without ids, or actors that came from a metadata source that doesn’t provide them. For example I believe moviedb is currently the only one that does.

Thanks for the response

[Luke 42079]

Hi, has this answered your question and helped you identify the source of your duplicates?