Same tv show name, different country

[Spaniard 0]

Hello,

I am trying to get two shows with the same name but one as the US version and one as the Australian version.  Currently it puts the Australian version as the same as US version.  They each have different folder names for the series on my drive, but Emby is recognizing it as the same show.  For example, the US one is, The.Name.of.the.Show and the Australian version is, The.Name.of.the.Show.(AU).  Also, each Australian episode file, has the same naming.  I read somewhere else that if Emby does not show the identify option, that it is having issues finding the show.  I do not see the identify option, but I did find the show on theTVDB.  I wasn't able to find any information on the naming guide for country versions of shows so not sure if something is labelled incorrectly or if Emby just doesn't recognize different country versions of shows with the same name.  For example, these shows would be shows like The Office US and The Office UK, or Married at First Sight and Married at First Sight Australia.

Thanks,

[Happy2Play 9782]

25 minutes ago, Spaniard said:

I read somewhere else that if Emby does not show the identify option, that it is having issues finding the show

No that mean Emby is not recognizing the Folder as a Show, just a plain folder.  You would have to go over specific folder structure and naming scheme of items in the folder.

I always use showname (year)

[Spaniard 0]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

No that mean Emby is not recognizing the Folder as a Show, just a plain folder.  You would have to go over specific folder structure and naming scheme of items in the folder.

I always use showname (year)

Sorry I think I may have been too general with my example of naming.  This is an example of the structure I am referring to.

• TV-Shows
  • Married.at.First.Sight
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E02.Wedding.Prep.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E03.The.Newlyweds.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E04.Honeymoons.(1).HDTV-720p.mkv
  • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU)
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E01.Episode.1.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E02.Episode.2.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E03.Episode.3.HDTV-720p.mkv

I would expect the results of this to display two shows in Emby.  One as Married at First Sight with Season 6 episodes and another one as Married at First Sight Australia with Season 1 episodes.  Instead the result is one show of Married at First Sight with seasons 1 and 6.

Hope this explains it better.

[Happy2Play 9782]

1 minute ago, Spaniard said:

Sorry I think I may have been too general with my example of naming.  This is an example of the structure I am referring to.

• TV-Shows
  • Married.at.First.Sight
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E02.Wedding.Prep.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E03.The.Newlyweds.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.S06E04.Honeymoons.(1).HDTV-720p.mkv
  • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU)
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E01.Episode.1.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E02.Episode.2.HDTV-720p.mkv
    • Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).S01E03.Episode.3.HDTV-720p.mkv

I would expect the results of this to display two shows in Emby.  One as Married at First Sight with Season 6 episodes and another one as Married at First Sight Australia with Season 1 episodes.  Instead the result is one show of Married at First Sight with seasons 1 and 6.

Hope this explains it better.

Do you have "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" enabled on that TV library (Dashboard-Library select library enable Show Advanced settings)? 

But Emby the log will show you what Emby is querying and the results.

[Spaniard 0]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Do you have "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" enabled on that TV library (Dashboard-Library select library enable Show Advanced settings)? 

But Emby the log will show you what Emby is querying and the results.

It was set to on for "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders".  I turned it off, waited a while and refreshed.  Now I have both folders showing but both as the same version of the show.  Meaning I see two Married at First Sight.  So still not the Australian one for the Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).  Now I do get the Identify option for the one that is using the Australian version at least.  I am assuming that for whatever reason, it is still thinking it is the US version.  Looking at the logs, it looks like the Get request for themoviedb is still trying to get the US version of it.  Using the identify feature at least made it work for now though.

[Happy2Play 9782]

It is really hard to say.  But unidentified show would mean Emby is not identifying as a Series, I would bet if you added season folder you would not have a issue.  But adding year to series name makes it foolproof also.

Edited September 23, 2020 by Happy2Play

[Spaniard 0]

Interesting.  I'll give the "add year to series name" a try then.  See if that works with some of the other ones I have had the same issue with.  I really appreciate your help.  It's been very useful.

[Happy2Play 9782]

To me since the change in auto detections Series/episode structure occasionally still has trouble and only knows a folder exists and does not know what to do with it and you are unable to use Identify in this condition.

[Carlo 4561]

15 hours ago, Spaniard said:

It was set to on for "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders".  I turned it off, waited a while and refreshed.  Now I have both folders showing but both as the same version of the show.  Meaning I see two Married at First Sight.  So still not the Australian one for the Married.at.First.Sight.(AU).  Now I do get the Identify option for the one that is using the Australian version at least.  I am assuming that for whatever reason, it is still thinking it is the US version.  Looking at the logs, it looks like the Get request for themoviedb is still trying to get the US version of it.  Using the identify feature at least made it work for now though.

Have you tried to manually match the AU show?

I had a similar issue with the different "Love Islands" shows until I manually matched them, now it's good.

[Spaniard 0]

3 hours ago, cayars said:

Have you tried to manually match the AU show?

I had a similar issue with the different "Love Islands" shows until I manually matched them, now it's good.

Yeah that's what I was able to do with the Identify feature once I turned off the "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders".  Since it was merging it before, I wasn't able to distinguish them as different.  The problem I have had with "Identify" before is that it seems to reset every once in a while.

[Carlo 4561]

Try locking the ID fields of both shows so they can't be changed and thus merged.  I haven't done this but it sounds like it should work.

[Happy2Play 9782]

Once identified properly they should not merge unless maybe if no metadata saved with media.  But will usually always come back to folder name.

[Luke 42080]

It comes down to whether or not they have the same external id's. That is what will determine if they get merged or not.