electronicsguy 0 Posted May 11 Posted May 11 Hello, Trying to add "Battlestar Galactica Miniseries" to my Emby library. Tried all possible combinations of namings - title (year)/files, title (year)/title-filename, etc etc. Inserted the IMDB id:tt0314979 But even then, it keeps recognizing it incorrectly as: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/235631-the-shiny-group What's going on? Why is this sooooo hard? A folder/filename like "Battlestar Galactica Miniseries (2003)/Battlestar Galactica - Miniseries 1.mp4" - is it so hard to parse this correctly?
electronicsguy 0 Posted May 11 Author Posted May 11 Some more example: "The X-files" gets detected as some other "files" "Silo" gets detected as the spanish show "Si Lo Dice Mi Madre" "Sherlock" (2010 TV series) gets detected as "How Sherlock Changed the World"
js28194 43 Posted May 11 Posted May 11 (edited) You answers lay within your own question. You are adding a TV SERIES yet you are identifying it as MOVIE . Check your Metadata fetcher settings in your library setup. Nothing to improve if done correctly. You can see clearly it is querying the "Themoviedb.com" where it should be querying "thetvdb.com" How to setup TV https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html How to setup Movies https://emby.media/support/articles/Movie-Naming.html Edited May 11 by js28194
pwhodges 2065 Posted May 11 Posted May 11 Is this a TV Series library or a Mixed Type library? That matters because the Mixed library has stricter requirements for the folder structure. Specifically, for reliable results you will need to put each movie in its own folder and each series requires season subfolders - this structure is how Emby decides which type of lookup to do. "Battlestar Galactica Miniseries (2003)/Battlestar Galactica - Miniseries 1.mp4" has neither a season folder nor specifies the season in the file name (e.g.s01e01), and neither TVDB nor TMDB includes "Miniseries" in the name. Basically, the closer you get to the Emby naming rules and the naming used by the metadata suppliers, the better things will be. Paul
electronicsguy 0 Posted May 12 Author Posted May 12 On 5/11/2026 at 10:23 PM, pwhodges said: Is this a TV Series library or a Mixed Type library? That matters because the Mixed library has stricter requirements for the folder structure. Specifically, for reliable results you will need to put each movie in its own folder and each series requires season subfolders - this structure is how Emby decides which type of lookup to do. "Battlestar Galactica Miniseries (2003)/Battlestar Galactica - Miniseries 1.mp4" has neither a season folder nor specifies the season in the file name (e.g.s01e01), and neither TVDB nor TMDB includes "Miniseries" in the name. Basically, the closer you get to the Emby naming rules and the naming used by the metadata suppliers, the better things will be. Paul I have this, too, for other TV series. For example, Sherlock that I mentioned above is store in the format: Sherlock / Season NNN/ Sherlock - SxEy - ABCD.mkv It still doesn't recognize it properly. Entire season 2 is missing. Some missing episodes from S1 and S3. Now why would that happen? This happens for many other series' too. My point is - if it is this hard with AI tools in the year 2026, its simply not worth it. I'd much rather just have a player to browse through folders and play what I want.
electronicsguy 0 Posted May 12 Author Posted May 12 See this pic for explaining my point above. Even if click on season 2 (as shown in the dropdown, no episodes show up. Same for S3). Everything had to be done manually - identify/set title, IMDB Id, even then, don't get what I expected.
js28194 43 Posted May 12 Posted May 12 Please show us some screenshots of your file structure, from show, season and file level for battleship galatica AND show us your metadata fetcher settings on your library. I have both of these and no issues and so do I imagine a ton of people. From the above what you have posted, it is incorrect.
electronicsguy 0 Posted May 12 Author Posted May 12 4 minutes ago, js28194 said: metadata fetcher settings on your library where are these to be found?
js28194 43 Posted May 12 Posted May 12 (edited) Settings -> Library -> YourLibraryNameHere -> Scroll down Make sure on your TV (Very specifically library created as TV) is setup for the TVDB. Edited May 12 by js28194
RanmaCanada 543 Posted May 12 Posted May 12 (edited) 5 hours ago, electronicsguy said: I have this, too, for other TV series. For example, Sherlock that I mentioned above is store in the format: Sherlock / Season NNN/ Sherlock - SxEy - ABCD.mkv It still doesn't recognize it properly. Entire season 2 is missing. Some missing episodes from S1 and S3. Now why would that happen? This happens for many other series' too. My point is - if it is this hard with AI tools in the year 2026, its simply not worth it. I'd much rather just have a player to browse through folders and play what I want. Emby doesn't use AI tools. As mentioned there is something goofy with how your metadata is setup. You should also follow the proper naming scheme https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html Emby is only as smart as the person who is in charge of the server. If you don't have your files named properly, it won't know what it's dealing with and will give you bad results when it can't query sources properly. Edited May 12 by RanmaCanada 2
pwhodges 2065 Posted May 12 Posted May 12 14 minutes ago, RanmaCanada said: Emby is only as smart as the person who is in charge of the server. If you don't have your files named properly, it won't know what it's dealing with and will give you bad results when it can't query sources properly. This. Paul
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