Metadata scan not taking S01E01 out of episode titles and erasing all art

[mrb002 5]

I have a tv show that keeps matching to a show on TVDb, but TVDb has no info... No episodes or data other than the show name (not sure if this matters to my issue)

 

When I force refresh metadata, it will populate the episodes with their season/episode number, but it leaves the "S01Exx" info in each title.

 

1. Is this the desired/expected result?

 

Also, it puts in the empty tv series ID in the TVDb field for the series and erases the artwork I've placed in the show directory.

 

2. Is there anyway to stop that?

 

Thanks.

[Luke 42085]

Hi there, can you please discuss an example? Thanks.

[mrb002 5]

Hi Luke,

 

Thanks for the quick reply.  I've PMed you what I believe is the relevant part of the debug logs from my server.

 

The two issues are:

 

1. When a TV show with episodes named "S01E01 - Episode Title.mp4" are scanned by the metadata scanner, the resulting NFO file for each episode does not remove the S01E01 from the <title> section of the NFO file.  The episodes are being correctly tagged as season 1, episode 1 ... the the title in the NFO and within Emby is the full "S01E01 - Episode Title" which looks messy.  I may be misremembering, but I thought that in the past, the metadata scanner would at least remove the season/episode number from the title, even if the episode wasn't found.  If I'm wrong, then this isn't a bug - I will just have to manually remove those S01E01's from the title.

 

2. When I force refresh the same series, it removes my fanart.jpg, logo.png, and poster.jpg files that I've manually added.  No artwork is being downloaded by Emby as far as I can tell - the en.zip file with the XML files for the series that is downloaded has a <poster> tag, but there is no data in it.  Is that causing the metadata scanner to remove the existing artwork I have?

 

I have tried to remove the TVDb ID from the series to stop it from downloading metadata from the internet, but it keeps repopulating.  I'm guessing if I could lock it down, maybe the #2 would stop.

 

Thanks!

[Happy2Play 9783]

1. Both providers return blank metadata, so no provided episode names so filenames are still displayed.

 

"/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=FullRefresh&MetadataRefreshMode=FullRefresh&ReplaceAllImages=true&ReplaceAllMetadata=true" this refresh is causing the image to be removed since a blank query is returned from provider.  Basically saying this show has no images so the current ones are wrong.

 

2. en.xml is blank so you have to complain to TVDB.

 

<Data><Series><id>366759</id><Actors></Actors><Airs_DayOfWeek>Sunday</Airs_DayOfWeek><Airs_Time>8:00 PM</Airs_Time><ContentRating></ContentRating><FirstAired></FirstAired><Genre>|Comedy|</Genre><IMDB_ID></IMDB_ID><Language>en</Language><Network></Network><NetworkID></NetworkID><Overview></Overview><Rating>0</Rating><RatingCount>0</RatingCount><Runtime></Runtime><SeriesID></SeriesID><SeriesName>Vitaly Uncensored</SeriesName><Status>Continuing</Status><added>2019-07-12 12:04:16</added><addedBy></addedBy><banner></banner><fanart></fanart><lastupdated>1573797600</lastupdated><poster></poster><zap2it_id></zap2it_id></Series><Actors></Actors><Banners></Banners></Data>

 

I also would assume since the isAdult filter is not used with TMDB plugin you get no results there also or it doesn't exist there either.

 

Yes removing the rogue external provider id and locking metadata should stop your issue.

Edited February 27, 2020 by Happy2Play

[mrb002 5]

Thanks Luke and Happy2Play for your help!

[Luke 42085]

Ah, so this was adult content?

[mrb002 5]

i guess so!  i didn't realize that was treated differently in TVDb or the scraper.  i've just used notepad++ find in files to batch fix the nfo files so it's fine for now.

[Luke 42085]

Thanks for the feedback.