New users: doubts about metadata retrieval in non english language

[madmalkav 0]

I'm trying Emby, I'm liking it so far but the metadara retrieval is giving more wrong results than Kodi or Ples. In example:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016934/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

I had this movie in a file called La doncella (2016).mkv , but Emby retrieved the metadata for another movie. After changing the name to The handmaiden (2016).mkv , it was retrieved OK.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2013293/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

For this movie, I have the file El viento se levanta (2013).mkv . But Emby is retrieving metadata for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3876100/

 

Lastly, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

File is named Cazafantasmas (2016).mkv , but metadata is retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4976984/

 

I have the library configured as Spanish / Spain. I don't know if there is some other options I can use to improve the metadata retrieval or renaming the files with the english titles is the only option at the moment.

[Luke 42083]

For the first one, look at the results on MovieDb:

 

https://www.themoviedb.org/search/movie?query=La%20doncella

 

It places this higher in the search results:

La niebla y la doncella

[Luke 42083]

For the third one, look at MovieDb, see the first result:

 

https://www.themoviedb.org/search/movie?query=Cazafantasmas

[Luke 42083]

For the second one, this is the only result that comes back from MovieDb:

 

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/149870-kaze-tachinu

[Luke 42083]

It looks like this needs to be reported to MovieDb.

[madmalkav 0]

Seems the problem comes from themoviedb search engine. All those movies returns the proper result when searched for in IMDB, with or without adding the year to the search. themoviedb list unrelated movies and shows no results if you add the year.

 

Can I change the prefered search engine in some user option?

 

PS: moviedb accepts y:XXXX as parameter to parse the year , but even in that case cazafantasmas y:2016 gives El fenómeno Cazafantasmas before Cazafantasmas, which makes no sense at all IMHO.

Edited April 3, 2017 by madmalkav

[Luke 42083]

MovieDb is the best option we have. Imdb would require us to pay a very expensive license, which we are currently not doing.

 

If you know if another source for metadata for your country then please by all means let us know. thanks.

[madmalkav 0]

Moviedb have the correct info, it is the search results being somewhat weird the cause of the problem. I have just tested Filmaffinity and it gives proper results if search string contains year, but I don't know the site well enough to say if it is a good option. Also, I have no idea about license fees.

 

PS: themovedb results for "El viento se levanta" are OK, yet I got the wrong metadata. Strange. I'll happy do all the tests you ask me in the next days. Now, it is bedtime in Spain

[Happy2Play 9783]

@@Luke

 

Does fetcher order affect this?

[Luke 42083]

@@Happy2Play, yes, but for these examples I checked Omdb and it came up with 0 results, therefore it would move onto the next provider.

[madmalkav 0]

Some good old thread necromancing here.

I haven't used Emby in some time. Situation is the same for moviedb -I never got to report this issue-. For OMDB , it does almost all results right, but:

A ) I get all the titles in english even if my library is configured for Spanish. Curiously, I get spanish titles in the downloaded images.

B ) La Doncella still gets the wrong movie, even when it is the first hit in OMDB web -perhaps caused by the language issue?-.

Edited March 13, 2019 by madmalkav

[Luke 42083]

Hi, Omdb only has english metadata, so if you set this as your highest priority fetcher, then that's why this would happen.

 

What does La Doncella  get matched as?

[madmalkav 0]

The Mist and the Maiden.

 

I think that if I stay with Emby for enough time, I will try to see how to do a FilmAffinity scrapper. It seems by far the best options for spanish language users.

[Luke 42083]

Sounds great, thanks !

[oliverqq 0]

La Doncella works fine now.

[Luke 42083]

So are you all set now?