Quick and easy way to edit/control credit list contents

[Alcyone7 6]

The burgeoning list of Conductor, Novel, Character Developer and all the other roles, which just bloat the database with information I am not and never will be interested in. All I want to see are the actors and the director(s). The 20 producers and 9 screenwriters are, for me, bloat and irrelevant. And when I start to see entries like "original producer" - so not the producer for the remake/film, but a credit to a producer (really don't care) of the original film - its time to trim the fat.

So is there an easy way to control what is displayed (filtered) or downloaded, or worst case scenario, a way to edit the database and remove all these superfluous entries?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Do you have a specific example as Emby does not get all of these so-called Crew from providers and is limited to director/actor for the most part besides episodes with director/writer.

May need to know your metadata downloader order also if specific to a non-default plugin.

As all these people are a per item linking in metadata/database there is no bulk way to eliminate them besides per item.

[Alcyone7 6]

More or less every entry (TV Shows excluded) have a whole litany of producers, writers, composers, character - one even had storyboard artist listed).  Since this is grabbed, and from what I can infer from your reply, there is no way to filter/disable/delete en-masse, I will have to live with the excess drivel with what is there already, and change the metadata scraper to another provider who hopefully doesn't deliver this level of drivel.

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, Alcyone7 said:

More or less every entry (TV Shows excluded) have a whole litany of producers, writers, composers, character - one even had storyboard artist listed).  Since this is grabbed, and from what I can infer from your reply, there is no way to filter/disable/delete en-masse, I will have to live with the excess drivel with what is there already, and change the metadata scraper to another provider who hopefully doesn't deliver this level of drivel.

Would need a real example as I have no idea where any of the info would actually come from as I do not see any of this per Emby built plugins.  Now if this is from a third party plugin then it would be up-to that plugin developer to possible fix the issue.

But no there is no way to filter/disable/delete said info in-mass.

What Library type?  What enabled providers?

[Alcyone7 6]

The fetch order is:

• TheMovieDB
• The Open Movie Database
• TheTVDB

[Happy2Play 9780]

Just now, Alcyone7 said:

The fetch order is:

• TheMovieDB
• The Open Movie Database
• TheTVDB

And a specific example with your issue as none of those providers will return what you are describing.

In the end people only come from the first provider unless none exist at the time of import then will move to the next provider.  Info will never come from all providers when it comes to People.

[Alcyone7 6]

3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Would need a real example as I have no idea where any of the info would actually come from as I do not see any of this per Emby built plugins.  Now if this is from a third party plugin then it would be up-to that plugin developer to possible fix the issue.

I appreciate that the data is being fetched from the metadata plugin, which may or may not be written by the Emby team - I was merely looking for a quick way to filter the cast/crew being displayed (since it had already been fetched).  As you have commented - no filter - no easy way to remove (except editing each item). So I will simply change the fetch order and hope the others don't supply this much drivel.

 

[Alcyone7 6]

5 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

And a specific example with your issue as none of those providers will return what you are describing.

In the end people only come from the first provider unless none exist at the time of import then will move to the next provider.  Info will never come from all providers when it comes to People.

Then all these extra "people" roles have come from TheMovieDB. I will simply change it (as previously indicated).

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Without a real example it is impossible to say as I can not reproduce this issue at all and have never seen this issue per TMDB.

OMDB will be the most limited as they will not list all main actors per content.

[Alcyone7 6]

Here is an example of the twaddle being fetched. This is for Spartacus.
Role --> Scenario Writer.

WTH

[Alcyone7 6]

There are no NFO files (disabled anyway) - the only data sources are those shown.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Well I see one issue as this MiniSeries is not a Movie and I fetched it and go none of what you see in a TV library.

Spartacus (TV Series 2004-2004) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

Will retest in Movie library but expect it to fail unless info comes from alternate provider and a wild guess would OMDB so I will check their api now.

Edited December 29, 2025 by Happy2Play

[Alcyone7 6]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

Well I see on issue as this MiniSeries is not a Movie and I fetched it and go none of what you see in a TV library.

Spartacus (TV Series 2004-2004) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

Will retest in Movie library but expect it to fail unless info comes from alternate provider and a wild guess would OMDB so I will check their api now.

Showing your age. It was a film, long before it was a series.

[Lessaj 467]

I just added this as a test and this is how it was populated. There are directors/screenwriters but they're all the way at the end.

[Alcyone7 6]

Yup - you're getting all this extra stuff. Guess TMDB has suddenly added a load of extra roles/data to their DB. Ugh. OMDB goes the other way.

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, Alcyone7 said:

Showing your age. It was a film, long before it was a series.

Just guessed as all I did was search the first person and select the first Spartacus that appears instead of the last.

But will look at the api query now.

[Happy2Play 9780]

6 minutes ago, Alcyone7 said:

OMDB goes the other way.

Yes/No as it limits actors and does not give proper Roles.

Quote

{"Title":"Spartacus","Year":"2004","Rated":"Unrated","Released":"18 Apr 2004","Runtime":"174 min","Genre":"Action, Drama, History","Director":"Robert Dornhelm","Writer":"Howard Fast (novel), Robert Schenkkan (teleplay)","Actors":"Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates, Angus Macfadyen","Plot":"After he is bought by the owner of a Roman gladiator school and trained as a gladiator, a slave leads a rebellion of slaves and gladiators into revolt against Rome.","Language":"English","Country":"United States","Awards":"Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 win & 7 nominations total","Poster":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1OTA5MDM1MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzA5MTcyMQ@@._V1_SX300.jpg","Ratings":[{"Source":"Internet Movie Database","Value":"6.6/10"}],"Metascore":"N/A","imdbRating":"6.6","imdbVotes":"5,863","imdbID":"tt0361240","Type":"series","totalSeasons":"1","Response":"True"}

 

[Alcyone7 6]

With OMDB first, the results are, as expected, worse.  More crew than actors. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

13 minutes ago, Alcyone7 said:

Guess TMDB has suddenly added a load of extra roles/data to their DB

May not have never noticed this as I rarely scroll that far ie the end of the list.

@LukeHas Emby always gotten these additional Crew? (TMDB)    

But these Roles fall under "Writing"

But every example shall be different a not all this info will be present on all content.

Edited December 29, 2025 by Happy2Play

[Happy2Play 9780]

And TVDB will potentially give you

[Alcyone7 6]

I noticed this on a film with a genuinely small cast. Having checked a few others (had to rescan all the movies after an upgrade snafu). And most, definitely 9/10 I have randomly checked have now all these extra roles.

 

[Jmackay82 40]

See how some photos are missing this happens all the time on the newest version at least once a week I need to do a meta scan and replace all images 

[Jmackay82 40]

Like the attached, they were all there yesterday and for no reason suddenly gone today 

[Alcyone7 6]

3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

May not have ever notice this as I rarely scroll that far ie the end of the list.

@LukeHas Emby always gotten these additional Crew?

But every example shall be different a not all this info will be present on all content.

Guess they've been updating their data - or the PGA/studios have pushed for the data to be more complete with the "crew". But seriously, Scenario Writer.  WHY? 
The previous scan never had this many "crew" roles as it appears now. Weird.

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, Jmackay82 said:

See how some photos are missing this happens all the time on the newest version at least once a week I need to do a meta scan and replace all images 

At the same time there is no provider image for the two empty in my screenshot.