Scraping Music Videos

[GregMo 24]

Please excuse this post because I figure the answer has to be something simple I'm overlooking, or something simple answer my searches aren't bringing up, but how do we get Emby to scrape music videos?  From my searches I see where others have used IMVDb but I can't get that as an option even tho the folder type is music videos.  I've gone in to the one test video I put in the folder and tried to identify it and couldn't even get it to work there.  

Again, I'm sure I should be able to figure this out but just not in the right place to do that right now so any help is very much appreciated.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

if its not already make sure your MV library is of type Musicvideos!

1. load IMVDB plugin from the catalog via your server dashboard - and reboot emby server

2. put your mv in the following structure

..\musicvideos\artist\songname\songname.ext - so a folder per mv

3. Name the mv as close as you can to the actual song title - dont add any extra fluff like artistname etc as this will cause problems

4. Emby will try and find the MV via its name (limitations of IMVDB api)

5. if you are lucky you will get a 60% hit rate because IMVDB does not have your MV listed, you named it wrong or its named wrong on IMVDB

6 . manually correct as many as you can for the 40% - some matches are very funky  

7. you will not find some on IMVDB - so remove the IMVDB id from the metadata amend the metadata to match the unfound song and lock the metadata if you are going to do any refreshes of items or the library in the future as it will return to the incorrect match.

 

Thats about as good as you will get - works fine for me with 1800 MV's - and yes it did involve a lot of manual effort for the 40%

 

Have fun

 

OT @cayars - another KB article or update is prob needed as this has come up a few times

 

[GregMo 24]

Silly me, how did I not know that it needed a plug in?  (You'd think Emby might mention this when you selected that content for a folder)

Thanks man!  Was going nuts trying to figure it out, what given the Friday state of mind