Force a series to use only ONE DB for metadata

[Lighthammer 91]

I don't think there's anyway to do this currently: through my troubleshooting of my recent metadata issues, it occured to me that it would be VERY useful to be able to force just a single series to use only a single source for metadata.
 

While you can do this inside a library, there doesn't seem a way to do it through a series.

I've tried physically edit the series/season's NFO to "lock" fields from other databases with them remaining blank, but that doesnt seem to be a 'backend' fix.

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There are two major usecases for this feature:

#1.) There are many series that have different counting methods for epsiodes/seasons depending on which database you  use.

Example 1: American Dad has COMPLETELY different season counts depending on which database server you use. TMDB counts Season 1 as just 7 episodes, while IMDB counts Season 1 and Season 2 (by TMDB's measure) as Season 1.

 Example 2: Burto by many database's is counted as one GIGANTIC season, but there is an official Viz season count that grounds the episodes by approximately every 25 episodes.

 

In the case of Example 1, depending how I lay my series out, I may wish to tell the series to NEVER look at IMDB or TMDB..

 

In Example 2, I PERSONALLY would like the option to tell Emby to go fetch metadata by absolute episode#, but choose to group the episodes by the Viz US Official season grouping; which makes the series a lot more sane to try to digest. To the best of my knowledge there is no database that has adopted Viz US's official season groupings, but, of course there are a PLETHORA of sites that have the episode descriptions, and many that have use the "Absolute Episode #" field.

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If there isn't an implimentation of this already (which, part of this post is to 'beg the question', before dumping this into an official suggestion) is to add an "Absolute Episode # Field" into the metadata NFO for episodes AND to add the ability to 'refuse' data from metadata sources for on a series by series basis. 

I don't know if there is a STRONG usecase for the following, but I would almost suggest making this an option for episodes as well, that default inheritts from the Series/Season NFO. It seems pragmatic to add this feature (assuming it doesn't exist in some capacity already) while tweaking the above.

 

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Finally, this next part probably should be its  own post (and I'll likely break it up later depending on commentary here) --- I want to point out that on re-scans of a series, Emby doesnt appear to respect locked fields for "Season Title".

 

Example: If I manually modify 'Avatar: The Last Airbender''s Season 1 to read 'Season 01 - The Book of Water' and then LOCK the field, Emby will  revert it to 'Season 1' upon moving the series to another folder, removing/adding the series back into the collection or upon a request to either replace or find missing metadata request on a specific season.

[rbjtech 5284]

Can you not just delete the alternative meta provider ID in 'External ID's' - then during a Refresh, it has little choice but to use the remaining provider...

You can do this at a show/series level / per season level or even per episode.