Bulk remove metadata

[AlanBatie 5]

When Emby can't figure out an identification, it seems to fail to "The Armless Swordsman" and I now have 618 of them. I'd like to bulk remove the identification while I go through and clean up the directory naming to fix things.

sqlite> select count(*) from mediaitems where name like '%armless%';
618

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, you could try right clicking and then select remove identification

[AlanBatie 5]

600 times? I know I can do that, but that's a royal pain. I would like to, for example, shift click to select a large group and *than* do the right click/remove.

[Luke 42077]

How are your files named and organized?

[AlanBatie 5]

That isn't the issue - I know they're not exactly the way emby wants, but it will take a while to fix a thousand directories so I want to get emby to stop misidentifying the ones it gets confused about and falls back on some default

[Luke 42077]

On 7/30/2025 at 2:03 PM, AlanBatie said:

600 times? I know I can do that, but that's a royal pain. I would like to, for example, shift click to select a large group and *than* do the right click/remove.

Have you tried using the multi-select tool?

[AlanBatie 5]

On 8/8/2025 at 2:53 PM, Luke said:

Have you tried using the multi-select tool?

It took me a bit to notice the hazy circles, but that's exactly what I wanted, thanks.

[RanmaCanada 494]

On 30/07/2025 at 16:32, AlanBatie said:

That isn't the issue - I know they're not exactly the way emby wants, but it will take a while to fix a thousand directories so I want to get emby to stop misidentifying the ones it gets confused about and falls back on some default

filebot and files2folder can resolve it pretty quickly.

[x2desmit 7]

Wow. Thankfully I'm not the only one seeing this. I have a bunch of DVD Extras' videos and it did all of them the same way. Everything was the Armless Swordsman.

Is there some location where we can blacklist that IMDB entry? 

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, x2desmit said:

Wow. Thankfully I'm not the only one seeing this. I have a bunch of DVD Extras' videos and it did all of them the same way. Everything was the Armless Swordsman.

Is there some location where we can blacklist that IMDB entry? 

HI, what do you mean by blacklist?

[x2desmit 7]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, what do you mean by blacklist?

A database change the could ignore any IMDB entry number, and would never assign it to anything.