no tmdb id for director and crews on tv shows

[Gyvari 0]

i just realized that on tv shows library, director and crews not picking up tmdb id, is it intended like that? i have to identify manually each one and it's a lot of work. movies library is good though, all actor and crews tmdb id is always filled.

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[pwhodges 2082]

Have you set tmdb to be the primary metadata provider for TV?  It's not the default setting.

Paul

[Gyvari 0]

yeah, of course. the cast is working fine, only director, writer, etc not picking up tmdb id.

 

but for movies library all cast & crews is getting tmdb id.

Edited Wednesday at 02:27 PM by Gyvari

[Luke 42851]

Hi, try refreshing the metadata on the series and see if that helps.

[Gyvari 0]

unfortunately, that's not working, this is director for some episodes and when i click it's still blank just the name.

Edited yesterday at 01:57 AM by Gyvari

[Gyvari 0]

movies is working fine though, only on tv shows.

[Luke 42851]

1 hour ago, Gyvari said:

unfortunately, that's not working, this is director for some episodes and when i click it's still blank just the name.

what exactly did you try to do?

[Gyvari 0]

to get image and bio, it's not populated because it's not have tmdb id, all crew like director and writer not picking up tmdb id when scanning on tv show library, actor is working fine though they pick up tmdb id.

[Luke 42851]

2 hours ago, Gyvari said:

to get image and bio, it's not populated because it's not have tmdb id, all crew like director and writer not picking up tmdb id when scanning on tv show library, actor is working fine though they pick up tmdb id.

I mean what exactly did you do in the user interface?

[Gyvari 0]

just adding new movies and tv shows library, it's a new emby setup. after it's done i try to refresh metadata on tv shows library and the crew tmdb id still not there.

Edited yesterday at 07:07 AM by Gyvari

[Luke 42851]

10 hours ago, Gyvari said:

just adding new movies and tv shows library, it's a new emby setup. after it's done i try to refresh metadata on tv shows library and the crew tmdb id still not there.

OK, that's not what I asked. Try refreshing the metadata on one of these series and then see how things compare.

Also what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library and in what order?

[Gyvari 0]

On 8/7/2026 at 12:44 AM, Luke said:

OK, that's not what I asked. Try refreshing the metadata on one of these series and then see how things compare.

Also what metadata fetchers are enabled on the library and in what order?

Sorry if I'm wrong, but this is basically what I do on a fresh Emby Server 4.10.0.22.

 

 

[Luke 42851]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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