Emby is combining two tv shows into one

[hstamas 179]

The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead are being combined into one big Fear the Walking Dead series. It contains the first 2 seasons with duplicates and then it can't identify seasons 3-6 and shows just screenshot thumbnails (since Fear only has 2 seasons).

 

On the server they are in 2 completely separate folders named correctly. I have tried removing one series, rescanning, adding the series back and scanning again but it always combines them

 

I can't find any way to split them apart.

 

Help!

[blade005 185]

Have you checked what Series ID's are set with each series? I have both in my library without any issues. Below are the Series ID's in Metadata Manager.

 

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD

External Id's:

IMDb Id:

tt3743822

 

TheMovieDb Id:

62286

 

TheTVDB Id:

290853

 

Zap2It Id:

EP02209982

 

 

THE WALKING DEAD

External Id's:

IMDb Id:

tt1520211

 

TheMovieDb Id:

1402

 

TheTVDB Id:

153021

 

Zap2It Id:

SH01324002

[Happy2Play 9783]

Yep, the only thing that would combine them is having the same metadata.  That is how the series pooling function works.

Edited August 31, 2016 by Happy2Play

[hstamas 179]

I thought to look for that but since Emby is seeing it as one show how would I break them apart using the the ID? Can you plug in the ID into each individual episode so it will start breaking them out?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Under those circumstances I would do the following:

1. Remove both shows from the library folder.
2. Ensure the naming structure for my show folders and episodes was correct.
3. If you are saving metadata locally, delete any .NFO and .XML files that exist in the show folders.
4. Run a library scan and then a database cleanup.
5. Add The Walking Dead and do a library scan.  If necessary, identify the show correctly.
6. Add Fear the Walking Dead and do a library scan.

Should clean it up.

[dcook 299]

@@Luke - Another example of why Series Pooling is a bad idea, and at the very least should be an "Option" not mandatory

[bluemonkey07 590]

It's not a bad idea, is a useful feature for many

[hstamas 179]

Under those circumstances I would do the following:

 

• Remove both shows from the library folder.
• Ensure the naming structure for my show folders and episodes was correct.
• If you are saving metadata locally, delete any .NFO and .XML files that exist in the show folders.
• Run a library scan and then a database cleanup.
• Add The Walking Dead and do a library scan.  If necessary, identify the show correctly.
• Add Fear the Walking Dead and do a library scan.

Should clean it up.

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately no matter what I do, Emby combines these 2 shows. What ever series is detected first is the one it all gets lumped into.

[Luke 42083]

Under library -> display, if you enable the plain folder view, are they combined using that? also, are they combined when browsing the metadata manager?

[hstamas 179]

Yes to both questions @@Luke. But combining Deathsquirrel's suggestion along with renaming Fear the... with a capital "T" for "the" seems to have done the trick.

Edited September 8, 2016 by hstamas

[Nestar 12]

Running into this same problem.

Two shows with the same name other than the year, The latter one has the year added in (Brackets) to the end as per the listing on TVDB. Both shows are being merged into the newer one with the year, No option to split them out.

 

And yes, metadata manager shows them merged, if I look at the seasons and the show, it's all listed as the folder for the newer show, However the episodes are all merged into the same list.

[GrimReaper 4745]

4 hours ago, Nestar said:

Running into this same problem.

Two shows with the same name other than the year, The latter one has the year added in (Brackets) to the end as per the listing on TVDB. Both shows are being merged into the newer one with the year, No option to split them out.

 

And yes, metadata manager shows them merged, if I look at the seasons and the show, it's all listed as the folder for the newer show, However the episodes are all merged into the same list.

Rename Series folders to:

Show1 [tvdbid=xxxxx] 

Show2 (yyyy) [tvdbid=xxxxx], 

scan. 

[Nestar 12]

6 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Rename Series folders to:

Show1 [tvdbid=xxxxx] 

Show2 (yyyy) [tvdbid=xxxxx], 

scan. 

Indeed, that does work. Kinda ugly on the folder side but its very effective. Still would rather a grouping option like movies has if that's ever a possibility.

[Luke 42083]

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Show2 (yyyy)

You probably also could have done that for both series.