TV Series Metadata Matching

[Todd.sargent 4]

Is there a trick to match TV series metadata?  Regular TV shows are of course matching fine, but TV series seem to not find matching results.  I give 2 examples:  The TV mini series IT (1990) cannot match with Title, Year, IMDB, MovieDB or TVDB id's.  Here's another: King Solomon's Mines (2004).  I understand there will always be mismatches, but I have dozens that are all TV mini series type.  Any ideas?

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?

[Todd.sargent 4]

Title (year) as recommended. IT (1990).mkv,King Solomon's Mines (2004).mkv

[Luke 42078]

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The TV mini series IT (1990) cannot match with Title, Year

What series metadata fetchers are enabled on the library, and in what order?

[pwhodges 2012]

6 hours ago, Todd.sargent said:

Title (year) as recommended. IT (1990).mkv,King Solomon's Mines (2004).mkv

Those media names contain no episode information, so how is Emby meant to know it's a series?  If, for instance, you have both episodes of King Solomon's Mines (2004) in one file, then the filename should still include the episode information - e.g.: "s01e01-e02", and preferably be in a season 1 folder (which also helps Emby recognise a series); same for IT (1990).

Show us the complete folder structure and file names for one of these series and we should be able to work it out for you.

In the case of IT (1990), I note that TVDB uses the name "Stephen King's IT", and, in the web interface at least, fails to find just IT; but using [tvdbid=113981] should sort that.

Paul

[Todd.sargent 4]

So just to clarify, these are mini series movies that are combined into a full length movie , generally DVD Boxed Sets that do not have TV episodes like regular TV episode information.  It (1990)-  TVDB 113981 resolves to Falco, MovieDB 19614 resolves to Jay-Z.  These DVD

Luke:  The MovieDb first, The TVDB second.  If I enable the Open Movie DB, IT (1990) is identified as Itinerary of a Spoiled Child.

 

[GrimReaper 4740]

30 minutes ago, Todd.sargent said:

So just to clarify, these are mini series movies that are combined into a full length movie , generally DVD Boxed Sets that do not have TV episodes like regular TV episode information.  It (1990)-  TVDB 113981 resolves to Falco, MovieDB 19614 resolves to Jay-Z.  These DVD

As said by @pwhodgesabove:

5 hours ago, pwhodges said:

If, for instance, you have both episodes of King Solomon's Mines (2004) in one file, then the filename should still include the episode information - e.g.: "s01e01-e02", and preferably be in a season 1 folder (which also helps Emby recognise a series); same for IT (1990).

So, in your case it would look something like:

1. IT (1990)

Stephen King's It (1990) [tvdbid=113981]

\Season 1

\Stephen King's It S01E01-E02.mkv

2. King Solomon's Mines (2004)

King Solomon's Mines (2004) [tvdbid=322889]

\Season 1

\King Solomon's Mines S01E01-E02.mkv

 

ProviderIds in folder names are optional but help pinpoint exact series. 

Assumption is you have TVDB as top-preferred meta-provider. 

 

Edit: If you prefer TMDB as highest-priority fetcher:

1. IT (1990)

Stephen King's It (1990) [tmdbid=19614]

\Season 1

\Stephen King's It S01E01-E02.mkv

2. King Solomon's Mines (2004)

King Solomon's Mines (2004) [tmdbid=19699]

\Season 1

\King Solomon's Mines S01E01-E02.mkv

Edited May 12, 2025 by GrimReaper
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[Todd.sargent 4]

So I assume these movies must be moved into a TV library?

[GrimReaper 4740]

3 minutes ago, Todd.sargent said:

So I assume these movies must be moved into a TV library?

Based on:

15 hours ago, Todd.sargent said:

Is there a trick to match TV series metadata?  Regular TV shows are of course matching fine, but TV series seem to not find matching results.  I give 2 examples:  The TV mini series IT (1990) cannot match with Title, Year, IMDB, MovieDB or TVDB id's.  Here's another: King Solomon's Mines (2004).  I understand there will always be mismatches, but I have dozens that are all TV mini series type. 

One would assume you already have them in TV shows content-type library. 

If those are located in Movie-type library, there is no way you can match them with online data as providers are queried by type - only manually adding/editing metadata would work in that scenario. 

[Todd.sargent 4]

Yeah, I didn't know these movies were TV mini series, until all the mismatches and started researching.  They were from DVD's like IT Miniseries and Movie Complete Stephen King 2 Horror DVD Collection , King Solomon's Mines, and  The Last Don 1 and 2 Collection Duo DVD Box Set.  All the movies are combined and didn't reflect episodes.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Do to how the providers classify them you are limited to what you can do if you have media that is considered a Mini Series even if it is only a single file.  But most of the time you will be limited to placing them in TV library.

Unless you are using OMDB and then say lock the metadata.

Edited May 12, 2025 by Happy2Play

[Todd.sargent 4]

Interesting, if I enable OMDB, It (1990) metadata is translated to It -ESO (1946).

Happy2Play is your It (1990) in a TV or movie library?

[Todd.sargent 4]

Happy2Play, how is your file named?

[Neminem 1518]

I have set it up as an TV Show

[Happy2Play 9780]

28 minutes ago, Todd.sargent said:

Interesting, if I enable OMDB, It (1990) metadata is translated to It -ESO (1946).

Happy2Play is your It (1990) in a TV or movie library?

Happy2Play, how is your file named?

On this test system it is in a movie library, searched with only OMDB enable then locked metadata.

But same process can be do with OMDB enable and named without providerid.

Really depends on how many files you have for your media as you can add as additional parts if needed if you maintain as Movie but makes them more difficult to play second half of movie.

 

Edited May 12, 2025 by Happy2Play

[Happy2Play 9780]

In the end it depends on how much work you want to do as TMDB/TVDB will list them as TV so can only use their metadata in a TV library.  So you would somewhat have to manually edit metadata in Movie library as OMDB is limited in areas for data.

[Todd.sargent 4]

Again this forum rocks.  Lot's of ideas.  Happy2Play, I like your workaround.  Thanks All!!