Mis-Identified TV Show

[Heinrich 1]

The good news is that I am realizing I haven't had a problem with this in years. I remember years ago when I was first building my server library I would have occasional mis-identified titles.

 

This one has been a struggle!

 

The show is in the TV folder. I've deleted out the *.nfo files manually. I've tried plugging into the server the "external IDs" by looking them up. I've used the "remove identification" function numberous times, along with "refresh metadata." I've also tried renaming the episodes to a different type naming convention.

But the server keeps identifying TV show as one of the promo movies for the TV show and making it a movie

 

Version 4.8.11.0

Edited May 27, 2025 by Heinrich

[GrimReaper 4739]

Specific example would be required, along your filefolder structure/naming and server log from the time of import. 

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[Heinrich 1]

[the other topic in the Ember forum can be deleted. I thought I was here]

 

The good news is that I am realizing I haven't had a problem with this in years. I remember years ago when I was first building my server library I would have occasional mis-identified titles.

 

This one has been a struggle!

 

The show is in the TV folder. I've deleted out the *.nfo files manually. I've tried plugging into the server the "external IDs" by looking them up. I've used the "remove identification" function numberous times, along with "refresh metadata." I've also tried renaming the episodes to a different type naming convention.

But the server keeps identifying TV show as one of the promo movies for the TV show and making it a movie

 

\\Unraid\tv\Andor

Andor - S01E01 - Kassa.mkv

Andor - S01E03 - Reckoning.mkv

 

have both been picked as

 

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

 

I also tried a different naming convention 

 

Version 4.8.11.0

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42077]

Hi, I would try deleting the nfo files, and then renaming the series folder to include the year at the end. So Andor (XXXX).

Then just run a regular library scan. Please see if that helps.

[Happy2Play 9780]

@Lukeis there a reason Emby thinks this is a Movie per provider query?

Filtered TVDB to show said result

2025-05-27 11:38:13.191 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 204 to host4. Time: 6ms. POST http://192.168.0.199:8096/emby/Items/107845/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=FullRefresh&MetadataRefreshMode=FullRefresh&ReplaceAllImages=false&ReplaceAllMetadata=true&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=4ec4c1c6-f100-4fa1-9192-f04fc5170b9e&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.11.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret3_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us
2025-05-27 11:38:13.260 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: /bin/ffprobe -i file:"/mnt/user/TV/Andor/Andor - 1x03 - Reckoning.mkv" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data
2025-05-27 11:38:13.357 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 0 - Succeeded
2025-05-27 11:38:13.420 Info HttpClient: POST https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/login
2025-05-27 11:38:13.581 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=movie&q=tt13847540&remote_id=tt13847540
2025-05-27 11:38:13.840 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=movie&q=Andor
2025-05-27 11:38:13.957 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/movies/339893/extended?meta=translations
2025-05-27 11:38:14.101 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/1022100?api_key=x_secret1_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null
2025-05-27 11:38:14.211 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret4_x&i=tt13847540&plot=short&r=json

@Heinrichwhat is the content type of this library?

[tedfroop21 86]

2 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

is there a reason Emby thinks this is a Movie per provider query?

The Moviedb lists 29 movies, 6 TV shows and 81 people when you search Andor......plus a show and movie from the same year.

Might be a case where pointing out the correct one and using Identify gets the job done.

Edited May 28, 2025 by tedfroop21

[Happy2Play 9780]

25 minutes ago, tedfroop21 said:

The Moviedb lists 29 movies, 6 TV shows and 81 people when you search Andor......plus a show and movie from the same year.

Might be a case where pointing out the correct one and using Identify gets the job done.

But in this case the first provider would appear to be TVDB so the result comes from them as shown in the log snippet.

What content type is the library as I can only guess Mixed Content?

 

[Heinrich 1]

Putting a year in parenthesis fixed this particular show. Not sure why I didn't think of it 

 

What concerns me though is that all of my manual editing never seems to take. Not sure of the sequence to do it, but I filled in all identifiers - IMDB, TVDB to no effect.