Does Emby read meta data when getting meta data from the internet?

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Question as mentioned above.

 

Does Emby read meta data from video files for identifying movies and getting additional meta info from the internet?

I especially mean the meta data YEAR.

 

Example: when Emby looks online for meta data for "Boston" or even "Boston (2016)" it's getting the wrong info.

So when the meta data "2016" would be in that mkv file, would emby find the correct file?

[ebr 16185]

Hi.  Can you please provide details on exactly what is happening?

 

Thanks.

 

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I have a movie called Boston from 2016.

When scanning my library, emby loads meta data from the internet for a movie called Boston from 2017 instead of the data for my movie from 2016.

 

So I thought maybe Emby can indentify my movie correctly when I put in the meta-data YEAR inside the mkv file itself.

And there the only question is:

does Emby read this meta data inside the mkv file for loading additional meta data from the internet?

 

 

It's not a problem what I want to report.

I just want to know if emby does the thing asked above.

Edited September 12, 2018 by Normal

[ebr 16185]

We would read it from the file name when included like you indicated above.

 

However, in any case, have you tried the "Identify" feature (right click and choose Identify) to properly identify the movie?

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My meta data is correct since long time. This is not the problem.

But I thought I ask if Emby reads meta data from the file, just to know.

 

Yes. I tried the Identify feature. "Boston" and "Boston (2016)" gives the wrong (first) result.

When I put in the year in the input box it's correct. But, as I said, this is absolute not the problem!

 

I just wanted to know ...

let's say I put in "2016" as "Year" in the mkv file for Boston now.

Would Emby find the correct result auotmatically?

 

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2018 by Normal

[ebr 16185]

let's say I put in "2016" as "Year" in the mkv file for Boston now.

Would Emby find the correct result auotmatically?

 

No, as we already read the year from the file name.

 

What movie are you looking for as I don't see one named "Boston" from 2016...

 

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If you read from the file name, it's not working.

 

See my screenshot above. "Patriots Day" is called "Boston" where I live.

I tried "Boston" and "Boston (2016)".

 

The second one should, if you read from the file name, load up "Patriots Day" but it isn't.

[ebr 16185]

Sorry, that is not the primary name listed by the providers we are using and they determine the order of results.

 

If you rename your movie to "Patriot's Day" it will find it as the first one.  Or, you can just select it from that identify list.

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I can, yes. and I did. But I thought this is an issue of Emby.

I hope you understand what I wanted to say.

 

 

Last question: what do you mean by file name?

 

The string I put in the identify dialog or the name of the video file itself?

Currently it's Boston.mkv

[ebr 16185]

Your original post said you tried naming it "Boston (2016)".  That naming format will read the year as 2016.  However, the name of the movie is much more important to the search so movies actually named "Boston" are returned first.

 

The bottom line here is this issue had nothing to do with the reading of the date or with the date at all.  It was due to the name of the item.

 

That's why I tried to back up and see what the problem really was because whether or not we were reading the date would not have lead you to an answer.

 

Does that make sense?

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This is what I searched for, yes.

 

But let's ay I call my actual FILE like "Boston (2016). Would Emby, when scanning the library, search for "Name: Boston; Year: 2016"?

... like I can also put "Boston" in the movie name input field and "2016" in the year input field in the idenfity dialog.

 

 

The current file name is just "Boston.mkv" so the results are wrong which is "correct" because Emby gets me the first result for "Boston".

But when naming it "BIoston (2016).mkv" the resuls should be correct no when scanning automatically.

Edited September 12, 2018 by Normal

[ebr 16185]

This is what I searched for, yes.

 

But let's ay I call my actual FILE like "Boston (2016). Would Emby, when scanning the library, search for "Name: Boston; Year: 2016"?

... like I can also put "Boston" in the movie name input field and "2016" in the year input field in the idenfity dialog.

 

Please see my explanation above your post.  I think it covers this question.

 

Thanks.

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My english is too bad to understand what you are saying.

 

To make it simple:

 

- you said when my FILENAME is "Boston (2016).mkv" Emby would read "2016" as the movie year

 

- I asked: when scanning the library with this file name, would emby find the correct entry for "Boston" because of the "year" is given in the FILENAME?

[ebr 16185]

- I asked: when scanning the library with this file name, would emby find the correct entry for "Boston" because of the "year" is given in the FILENAME?

 

No because the name is more important and there is a different movie with a primary name of "Boston" from a very close year (2017).

 

The only solution would be to name the movie "Patriot's Day" or use the identify feature and just select it.

 

Does that make sense?

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So why is Emby reading the year of the filename actually when not using it in the meta data search?

[ebr 16185]

We ARE using the year but the name is much more important.  It is much more likely that you got the year wrong than the name so the search results will not be limited to only movies in that year.

 

Also, we are not in control of this search.  It is TMDb that is deciding on the best order of results.  Given the name you gave it, I think it did the proper thing.

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Just doubled checked that and used the identify tool again with "Boston" and "2016".

Seems like there is an issue in the themoviedb database or whereever these data comes from.

The input of 2016 should limit that to movies from 2016 normally (at the end of themoviedb I mean).

 

What makes me think that it's an issue on the site of themoviedb:

searching for "Das Dschungelbuch" (the jungle book) gives me many results.

Searching for the same movie and adding "1967" for the year gives me exactly what I was looking for.

 

But whatever. It was just a question which learned me 2 things:

 

- I will rename ALL my video files to "Movie name (year).ext) [currently they are like "Movie name.ext"]

- sometimes I wish I would be an english man so I could speak and understand ENG easier

Edited September 12, 2018 by Normal

[ebr 16185]

I think their search is doing the right thing.  If you were actually looking for the movie named "Boston" I think you would agree.

 

The only reason this particular movie was a problem for you is because there happened to be a recent movie with that exact name.  Had that movie not existed, then the movie you were looking for would have been first too.

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I agree with you. This movie just has a bad name in our country.

 

But for the future I will add the year of the movie to the file name. This will remove some other problems as said above (Jungle Book).

Edited September 12, 2018 by Normal