Incorrect titles

[pwhodges 2014]

I have a large collection of anime (Japanese animated TV series).  The files are not tagged, but are in folders with the series name, and with the episodes labelled "s01e02 title".  This has served me adequately for nearly a year.  But since the New Year Emby has decided that a large part of this collection is episodes of Mr Bean.  I have deleted the metadata, but Mr Bean has come back in full strength.

 

What on earth is going on?  It's a real pain finding things when they are all labelled the same - "Mr Bean".

[Luke 42086]

Hi, emby doesn't decide that a series is mr. bean, rather it uses the metadata settings you've configured, queries remote internet providers that you've enabled, and then utilizes the results that come back. You'll want to make sure your settings are configured appropriately for your library.

 

Can we please look at a specific example? thanks.

[pwhodges 2014]

Well I realise that it's not Emby itself, obviously.  But I have no experience in how metadata is handled or found, so I am wondering what information, and from where, is being used to decide that an episode is something different from what it is explicitly titled.

 

In the absence of any illuminating discoveries on my part (I'm just trying something out), I'll pass on the configuration and media data which seems relevant for you to comment on (probably in a day or two).

Edited March 19, 2018 by pwhodges

[Happy2Play 9785]

What is the content type for the library?  What is the library path set to?  What is your exact folder structure for this series?

[Luke 42086]

This should help users of the anime plugin to avoid having it mess with non-anime series in your library:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57274-3317-metadata-settings-per-library

 

Thanks.

[RanmaCanada 500]

This should help users of the anime plugin to avoid having it mess with non-anime series in your library:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57274-3317-metadata-settings-per-library

 

Thanks.

This doesn't work.  PERIOD.  No matter what I try to do the metadata is still being grabbed from tvdb.  How do I know?  Because in Dragon Ball Super any eps over 100 automatically go back to 0 and start over at 1.  So ep 101 becomes ep 1.  If it was grabbing the data from anidb like it's supposed to, it would not be a problem, as anidb has them listed this way.  When I had Dragon Ball Super named the way the tvdb wants them listed, ie S05E10, it would work no problem.  This is one of the biggest freaking problems with the program, and has been for quite some time.  I stayed quiet about it because I managed with the few series I had that were in the hundreds of episodes (DB, DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach, Narutos, etc), but with the new function supposedly fixing it, well it doesn't Luke.  I'm sorry to say it's still broken as the American Presidency.

 

After episode 100 it just breaks, and it break hard.  Heck it won't even recognize the freaking file names it just loops back to episode 1 and thinks that episode 101 is a copy.

[Luke 42086]

That's actually not related to this. What you need to do is configure the settings per library.

 

On addition, having a file named 101 will always be season 1 episode 1 because that's just how we do it. A lot of people name like that and expect it. We don't support different naming styles for anime but it's possible for the future.

 

So yes the settings do work but you just have to be aware of that. If you name your episode as s01e101 then the numbers will be parsed as you expect.

 

And actually our tv naming wiki goes over all of this.

[RanmaCanada 500]

But if we have the metadata set to grab from anidb shouldn't it over-ride this and grab the correct info?  This is just so bizarre to deal with and frustrating, especially as on going shows have their seasons truncated and changed on the fly ( I know Super did and it really pissed me off).  Sorry for the tone, I'd had been fighting with this for quite some time today and renaming and re-renaming files even with the proper tools is a PITA.  It was especially frustrating when it decided S5E55 was somehow S3E33.  

 

I would also highly suggest to have it "fixed" for anime, as a lot more people will be wanting to come over to here from plex and would like this option.  Finding the right tools to rename massive shows, and to rename them properly, isn't easy.  They screw up 9 times out of 10 and then you need to manually rename a lot of episodes and you end up throwing your keyboard across the room because filebot is a useless piece of crap (for this type of naming) that now costs money and name my tv series doesn't work half the time.

[Luke 42086]

Thanks for the feedback. It is definitely possible to continue to improve and cater to the anime experience.