Should music DVDs be in a 'mixed content' library?

[podonnell 47]

I've been able to add a handful of music DVDs to my 'Music Video' library, but only some of them are coming up with metadata matching. I'm wondering:

1) How do you tell how a title was matched up? Can you view the metadata and see if it was matched on a name or moviedb ID, etc..??

2) Why I'm unable to specify the IMDB and/or moviedb entry in the 'Identify' option to find a match. I have a few items that I can see both an IMDB and moviedb entry, but no matter how I attempt to 'Identify', I can't match the title.

Am I having trouble with #2 because of the content type? This library is a mix of both music videos (single songs, VHS/MTV style videos) along with produced music DVDs and live blu rays. Of note, there are a few music DVDs that were definitely identified somehow once they were imported, as I have full descriptions that I never typed. Wondering what those are matched on, and it does make me believe these full concerts can be identified in this content type.

Should I keep a 'music video' library for this situation, and if I need to change away from that, what kind of impact might I expect?

Thanks!

Edited November 11, 2024 by podonnell

[Luke 42079]

For #2, what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library?

[podonnell 47]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

For #2, what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library?

I had only enabled Artist metadata as my experience with the music video metadata was very poor. However in my doing so, it seems I disabled the TMDB provider as well. Reenabling that just allowed me to identify one of the ones I haven't been able to. That should sort me for this issue, thanks!!

[Luke 42079]

Yea just keep in mind that for a music videos library, enabling Tmdb could be problematic for other videos.