Incorrect Anime Metadata

[aerogems 0]

I've been testing Emby as a replacement for Plex for its Kodi integration, but I'm having real problems with the metadata scraper. Particularly for multi-season Anime shows, it frequently just repeats one season episode titles across all seasons.

 

Just as one example, the Anime show Sword Art Online. For some stupid reason, no matter what I do, the metadata scraper always identifies it as Sword Art Online II, and then the first season and third season (Alicization) all get the second season episode titles. Same thing with InuYasha, A Certain Magical Index, and plenty of others. I can rescan my libraries or refresh the metadata all I want, I just get the same duplicated data. Even if I manually enter in the show ID for a specific site, like say TheTVDB, same result. I also don't get any artwork for anything past the first season in Kodi, even if it is there in the Emby server listing.

 

I've used FileBot to go through and make sure that all shows are in the format like <Show> - SxEE - <Episode Name> so it might be something like InuYasha - 1x10 - Whatever Episode 10's Title Is and then let the metadata scraper run again after finishing that. Still no change. I did install the Anime plugin and haven't tried testing with that disabled or removed yet. Currently all of my anime is in the same library as my other TV shows and non-anime shows seem to work fine except for the lack of artwork for anything other than the first season in Kodi. The same naming scheme works great for non-anime. One other oddity is that I had all of my Anime on the same drive as my other TV shows, but was running out of space, so moved them to another drive. The metadata was correct before I moved them to another drive, after which when the scraper went through again, I ended up with the duplicated episode titles.

 

Figured before I give up and go back to using Plex I'd at least see if maybe I'm missing something stupid and obvious.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

If you aren't using the anime plugin your naming should follow TV show standards for Emby and your show names and episode titles should generally match what's on TVDB.  For example:

 

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 01\To Love-Ru S01E01 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 02\To Love-Ru S02E01 Once More From Here Bathhouse Battle Tick-tock The Sound of Love.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 03\To Love-Ru S03E01 Continue.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 04\To Love-Ru S04E01 Unconsciously ~Light Head, Pounding Heart~.mkv

 

In that example I added \\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV to the TV library.

 

If you are using the anime plugin you'll need help from someone else that uses it.  I don't.

[aerogems 0]

I actually have a few shows that are in that exact format and I didn't mess with them. For example, A Certain Magical Index looks like

 

\\Server\Share\A Certain Magical Index\Season 1\A Certain Magical Index - S01E01 - Academy City.mkv

\\Server\Share\A Certain Magical Index\Season 2\A Certain Magical Index - S02E01 - The Last Day (August 31).mkv

\\Server\Share\A Certain Magical Index\Season 3\A Certain Magical Index - S03E01 - Unrest.mkv

 

I still get the info for Season 2 in the metadata. But just because I have basically nothing to lose, I took another show and set it up exactly like your setup. I then did a rescan of folders and refreshed the metadata... I even reloaded the page with the show listings. No change.

 

My understanding is all the Anime plugin does is add a few extra sources for possible metadata scraping, so I'm hesitant to think it is at fault, especially when on at least a couple of shows, the metadata was correct until I moved it from \\Server\Share_1 to \\Server\Share_2 at which point things broke and I haven't been able to fix them. The names are all exactly the same as they were on the other share. However, if someone says that the Anime plugin is known to cause problems like this, I'll ditch it and try again.

[pwhodges 2012]

I can't say that the Anime plugin broke anything, but it made no improvement to anything either.  I have found that scrupulously following the naming guidelines and checking season breaks against TVDB is what has enabled my large anime library to be correctly identified throughout.  It is also possible, with care, to bend the rules and still get correct identification - I've done that to get a sensible presentation of the -monogatari series.

 

Paul

[aerogems 0]

I understand that, and it was the same with Plex, which is why I went through with FileBot and made sure everything was in a consistent naming pattern. Thing is, some shows the scraper picks up just fine even though they have a completely different and haphazard naming system, while anime shows... the results seem to be completely random.

[pwhodges 2012]

Just in case we have anime shows in common, could you name some that it gets wrong?

 

Paul

Edited April 5, 2020 by pwhodges

[aerogems 0]

In no particular order, and probably not exhaustive

• A Certain Magical Index
• A Certain Scientific Railgun
• InuYasha
• Eureka Seven
• Bleach
• Orphen (the original, not the recent remake)
• Sword Art Online

Yet at the same time, other shows work just fine like Attack on Titan, One Punch Man, Corner Gas Animated, BoJack Horseman, and Archer (except for the Hearts of Archness trilogy, but that one I expect) which have the exact same naming scheme. Other, non-animated shows also work fine, even when they may have inconsistent naming, like Doctor Who. All anime shows are named like one of the two examples below

 

\\Server\Share\Eureka Seven\Season 1\Eureka Seven - 1x01 - Blue Monday.mkv

\\Server\Share\Eureka Seven\Season 1\Eureka Seven - S01E01 - Blue Monday.mkv

 

The first example is what Attack on Titan and it is scraped correctly. It's also the same format used by Bleach, which is not scraped correctly. One Punch Man uses the episode format like the second example, but there's no season folders, and it's scraped correctly, but it's also the format used by A Certain Magical Index and Scientific Railgun which are not scraped correctly. Attack on Titan is on the "Anime" share, while I appear to have forgotten to move One Punch Man, so it's still on my "TV Shows" share. Not that that should make any difference at all.

[Luke 42079]

How are the metadata fetchers prioritized for the library?

[aerogems 0]

 

I'll bump TheTVDB and TheMovieDb up in priority and see if that changes anything.

Edited April 5, 2020 by aerogems

[aerogems 0]

I tested just Sword Art Online after reordering the priority of the metadata scrapers. Still not working with the season box art, but looks like the episodes were named correctly this time.

[pwhodges 2012]

I have only the default metadata sources: TVDB, TMDB, OMDB, and this is what I get on the only listed show I have in common with you (I may have edited the choice of images, but they are all found in those sources):

 

 

 

Honestly I would suggest removing the Anime plugin and rescanning the metadata for those shows.  Note that different sources may have different ways of numbering seasons of long shows - I always follow the TVDB numbering.

 

Paul

Edited April 5, 2020 by pwhodges

[RanmaCanada 495]

If you aren't using the anime plugin your naming should follow TV show standards for Emby and your show names and episode titles should generally match what's on TVDB.  For example:

 

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 01\To Love-Ru S01E01 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 02\To Love-Ru S02E01 Once More From Here Bathhouse Battle Tick-tock The Sound of Love.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 03\To Love-Ru S03E01 Continue.mkv

\\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV\To Love-Ru\Season 04\To Love-Ru S04E01 Unconsciously ~Light Head, Pounding Heart~.mkv

 

In that example I added \\<SERVER>\<SHARE>\TV to the TV library.

 

If you are using the anime plugin you'll need help from someone else that uses it.  I don't.

I have mine set like this except all the metadata for seasons 2-4 is the same as season 1.  Specifically for To Love-Ru.  I am getting sick and tired of fighting with this.  Some shows it works fine with, others it breaks and refuses to work so I have to manually fix them.  Nothing like having season 2 seen as season 1, even though everything is named properly.  

 

I have also tried absolute order and naming in some series.  Some it works, others it's completely broken.  I would gladly PAY for someone to fix the headaches that anime gives us on Emby.  I do not have these issues in Plex, but Plex just sucks for subtitle playback.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I have mine set like this except all the metadata for seasons 2-4 is the same as season 1.  Specifically for To Love-Ru.  I am getting sick and tired of fighting with this.  Some shows it works fine with, others it breaks and refuses to work so I have to manually fix them.  Nothing like having season 2 seen as season 1, even though everything is named properly.  

 

I have also tried absolute order and naming in some series.  Some it works, others it's completely broken.  I would gladly PAY for someone to fix the headaches that anime gives us on Emby.  I do not have these issues in Plex, but Plex just sucks for subtitle playback.

 

I don't have any trouble with this show.  What metadata fetchers do you have loaded?  I'm only pulling data from thetvdb and themoviedb.

Edited April 19, 2020 by Deathsquirrel

[pwhodges 2012]

It is also true that TVDB has of late sometimes messed up its previously OK data.  I had reason to rescan a library last week, and Space Battleship Yamato (1974 Japanese original) was misidentified as the 2019 version, although it was previously correct.  Looking at the website, I saw the show is no longer even listed there if you search for it (it offered Star Blazers, which is a highly re-edited US version).  So I identified it using TMDB, and the correct metadata returned - it even restored the old TVDB id code, but if you try to look at that, there is nothing there.  

 

Paul

Edited April 19, 2020 by pwhodges

[alucryd 315]

Oh well, looks like I'm not alone here. Will try moving TheTVDB all the way up as well, I've always used thetvdb numbering anyway.

[Luke 42079]

A community contributor has submitted some improvements to the Anime plugin so perhaps those will help with this.

[pwhodges 2012]

Thanks for the heads-up

 

Paul