List of actors

[Casperfan 4]

I have bunch of web movies that I have created a list who is them each of them seperately with another a program (MetaX) and when I add these to Emby they get cut up. Example Tony (1), Tony (2). They land up be listed as:

Tony

Job: actor

Role : 1

Tony

Job: actor

Role: 2

How do I name the actors in order for their name to stay as Tony (1), Tony (2)   

Thanks

[Luke 42618]

Hi, how did you get the data imported into emby server?

[Casperfan 4]

I used a program called MetaX where I can Batch edit files and add the same name in 1 shot. This was does over the years. So redoing them now would be a huge job.

[Luke 42618]

3 hours ago, Casperfan said:

I used a program called MetaX where I can Batch edit files and add the same name in 1 shot. This was does over the years. So redoing them now would be a huge job.

Edit what files exactly?

[Casperfan 4]

they are video files, mainly home movies and ads where my son/grandaughter starred in that were done over the years. The setup in them did work fine along time ago with emby.

[Casperfan 4]

I have decided to edit the files by removing  ( , ) & [ , ] in order to have them accepted, by the current emby format. So we can close this discusion.

[Luke 42618]

OK if you can provide screenshots and sample data then I can probably give a better answer. Thanks.

[Casperfan 4]

The metadata was imported by *.nfo files. The nfo files were created with "MetaX" software program. As you can see Jason (1) is now listed as;

Jason

1 (as the role)

 

Jason's swim race 2020-04-22.nfo

[Luke 42618]

@CasperfanIt's right there in the nfo:

  <actor>
    <name>Jason</name>
    <role>1</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
  </actor>

So that's where the 1 is coming from. If you can get MetaX to stop doing that, then you won't see that anymore.

Looking back at your original question, is your goal to merge the Tony entries? Then you could do something like this:

  <actor>
    <name>Tony</name>
    <role>Role 1, Role 2</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
  </actor>