This Old House misidentified as Ask This Old House

[SenorSmartyPants 4]

I recorded an episode of both This Old House and Ask This Old House back to back with my HDHR.

 

Here are the file names as Emby sees them.

 

tvheadend/Ask This Old House/Ask This Old House - S17E07 - Swap Door Swing; Tropical Yard.ts

tvheadend/This Old House/This Old House - S40E07 - Jamestown: Modern Barn Raising.ts

 

 

Emby put them both as "Ask This Old House". There is no identify option at the episode level, I only see it at the series level.

 

I don't believe there's anything I can do to the filenaming to make this more clear that they are not the same series. (Plex ids them fine).

 

I'm running beta 73.

[Luke 42080]

Hi, identify the series and then the episodes will fall in line. If you're wondering why this happened in the first place, you can perform the same search on tvdb:

 

https://www.thetvdb.com/search?q=This+Old+House&l=

 

As you can see this is not an Emby problem when tvdb doesn't even rank This Old House as the top result. The best way to safeguard against these things from happening is to put the series year at the end of the series folder name

This Old House (1979)

[SenorSmartyPants 4]

I can't identify the series in Emby correctly since there are two series currently merged. Ask TOH and TOH. How can I split these?

 

I have limited control over series names as tvheadend relies on the guide data to name the files.

 

Adding the series year does not help with TVDB search results.

https://www.thetvdb.com/search?q=This+Old+House+%281979%29&l=

 

TVDB search results are terrible now, I agree. It's sad that TVDB screwed up their search so badly.  TOH is returned in the first page of results. But plex has figured out a way to handle this.

 

I want to switch away from Plex and use Emby full time, but there are several issues that's preventing me from committing full time to Emby. This is just the most recently discovered. Emby is the way I will be going once my issues are resolved or I figure out work arounds. 

 

Thank you so much for your hard work on this product.

[Luke 42080]

With the series year we don't enter that into tvdb directly, we use it to filter results after they come back from tvdb, so that would have resolved it.

 

You can disable the per-library setting to merge series folders, then run a library scan. that will split them.

[SenorSmartyPants 4]

According to this thread https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?t=47888 search results are returned in alphabetical order, not in a best match order.

[SenorSmartyPants 4]

Why can't you filter the results without the series year? There is an exact match to the title requested in the results as displayed on TVDB website (assuming you get those same full results in the API call)

[Luke 42080]

We have tried to post filter in the past but inevitably it ends up creating situations where we are doing that when we shouldn't be.

[SenorSmartyPants 4]

Ok. I figured out how to customize series directory names in TVHeadend. I added the series year to the directory and Emby was cool with that. This is resolved as far as I'm concerned. Thanks.

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't know that tvdb was returning search results that way (@@Happy2Play fyi)

 

Now that i know that, we may have to take another look at post-filtering, even though I'd rather not do that.