Music Video Scraper

[PoBear 19]

Hi

 

I am having real problems with the scraper for music videos.

 

I have about 1200 videos and about a 1/3 are not showing in Emby either as a group folder or as individual songs.

 

Probably another third have been incorrectly catalogued, I expected a problem with this as I have a lot of videos recorded directly from TV programmes but I am still getting false results for videos that are in IMVDB.

 

I even have had a situation where two videos of the same song, identical filename; one was an AVI and the other an MP4 were incorrectly catalogued as two completely different songs, again there was an entry of the video in IMVDB!

 

Is it really this bad and is there anything I can do to improve the situation?

 

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

Please discuss some specific examples. Thanks.

[PoBear 19]

OK

 

I have a directory labelled A-Ha it contains the following video files

 

A-Ha - Take On Me [TOTP].mp4

A-Ha - Take On Me.mp4

A-Ha - The Living Daylights.avi

A-HA - The Sun Always Shines On TV [Live].avi

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV [TOTP].mp4

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV.avi

 

None of these videos are catalogued in Emby, Take On Me and The Living Daylights have entries in IMVDB.

 

Des'ree - You Gotta Be is catalogued as Des'ree - Life even though there is an IMVDB entry.

 

The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon.avi is catalogued as  The Mercy Beat - The The (there is no entry in IMVDB so why doesn't it default to filename as it has done for others)

 

Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield.flv - listed as ​POLO - ​Project Pat the video is in IMVDB

 

Thanks

[Guest asrequested]

If they all start with the same name, they'll show up as one. Try putting the artist name in brackets or parentheses.

[Guest asrequested]

As for imvdb, I've stopped using it. It gets many of mine totally wrong. So I just make sure I've named mine correctly.

[MikePlanet 144]

As for imvdb, I've stopped using it. It gets many of mine totally wrong. So I just make sure I've named mine correctly.

I have also disabled imvdb, after I tested it here. It was even changing manually edited metadata artists to wrong ones after scraping ...

[Guest asrequested]

Are the videos tagged?

[Luke 42077]

What do you mean not cataloged in emby?

[PoBear 19]

Catalogued means that they show up in Emby under Music Videos.

 

You say if they all have the same artist name the will appear as one entry but I have my Adele videos defined in the same way and they have all been added correctly.

 

I can fix the mis-identification although it is a pain to have to do it but if they are not actually being added in the first place like the A-Ha videos then I can't do anything with them!

[PoBear 19]

Are the videos tagged?

 

No, my understanding was that Emby doesn't use tag information for videos only music files.

[PoBear 19]

I have also disabled imvdb, after I tested it here. It was even changing manually edited metadata artists to wrong ones after scraping ...

 

How did you turn IMVDB off?

 

Thanks

[Happy2Play 9780]

 

I have a directory labelled A-Ha it contains the following video files

 

A-Ha - Take On Me [TOTP].mp4

A-Ha - Take On Me.mp4

A-Ha - The Living Daylights.avi

A-HA - The Sun Always Shines On TV [Live].avi

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV [TOTP].mp4

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV.avi

 

 

Do to the naming scheme they are grouped (multi version).

 

[MikePlanet 144]

How did you turn IMVDB off?

 

Thanks

... you can disable the imvdb metadataprovider in the library settings

[PoBear 19]

Do to the naming scheme they are grouped (multi version).

 

 

I can only say what I have said before, I don't have anything appearing for A-ha, a single entry or many and I have the following for Adele

 

Adele - Baby It's You

Adele - Chasing Pavements [TOTP]

Adele - Chasing Pavements

Adele - Cold Shoulder

Adele - Hello

Adele - Make You Feel My Love

Adele - Rolling In The Deep [Later]

Adele - Rolling In the Deep

 

And these have all been added as single entries in a folder named Adele, so it is not consistent.

[PoBear 19]

I've done some more testing on the A-Ha directory.

 

So I managed to re-create the one entry wuith multiple files that was described in a previous post, however, mine did not include all of the files in the directory, I then managed to get one of the videos listed as a single entry on it's own but another video defined in exactly the same way is not listed and neither are any of the other files in the directory.

[Guest asrequested]

The music library setup needs to be reworked. It just doesn't work.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

It does work - you however need to name your files correctly

 

MusicVideos\Artist\video name\video name.mp4

 

video name - do not include the artist name

 

video name must match exactly the imvdb entry - then the plugin picks it up - dont expect much metadata to be downloaded as its limited on imvdb

[Guest asrequested]

If you only have one song in the artist folder, it shows as the song title and not the artist. To name just one of several ways in which it doesn't work.

[Luke 42077]

It works just fine if you follow what penkethboy said.

[Guest asrequested]

No it doesn't.

[Luke 42077]

Then why does he say differently?

[Guest asrequested]

Have you tried putting just one video in an artist folder? It shows up as the song.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

LOL - another thing that works for others but not you 

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Put it in a subfolder as i said earlier

[Guest asrequested]

It is in the artist folder. And the song named correctly.