Movie Metadata

[Valyth 2]

Hello,

I've had an Emby Premier lifetime copy for a year or two now, but I never managed to make the break away from Plex.  That said, Emby has really become a very clean project in the last few years, and I'm eager to make the transition now.  That said, I have been trying to import my collection in Emby, and I am having major issues getting Emby to identify movies and load the correct metadata, especially compared to Plex which can import my entire collection without a single mismatch.

At least 20% of my collection right now in Emby has metadata errors. I have tried with both The Open Movie Database as well as TheMovieDb, but neither is managing my collection correctly.

Here are some example mismatches:

\movies\Fight Club (1999)\Fight Club (1999) [1920x800 - BRRip].mp4
Detected as: Brooklyn Girls Fight Club

movies\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011) [1920x816 - BRRip].mp4
Detected as: Captain America: The First Avenger - Disney Plus "VFX of Captain America: The First Avenger"

\movies\Her (2013)\Her (2013) [1920x1040 - BluRay].mp4
Detected as: Her Elephant Man

In terms of the way my collection is managed, I seem to be following all the usual organization guides - and, as mentioned, Plex imports the entire collection without a single mismatch.

Where am I going wrong?  Notably my TV and Anime collections don't appear to have any such issues.

 

Thanks so much for any feedback and assistance.

Edited October 14, 2020 by Valyth

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Just tested fight club and its identified by emby correctly using your naming 

So..

do you have themoviedb as your first metadata fetcher  and library is of type movie?

do you have a nfo file thats got the incorrect data in it? as emby will prioritise that over anything else

 

So..

remove fight club from you library -> do lib scan to clear out any references -> delete any other files in the moved dir except the video -> add back the movie folder with the movedb as first metadata fetcher and it should work

another possibility is you have some weird metadate tags in the file - unlikely but possible

[rbjtech 5284]

 

\movies\Fight Club (1999)\Fight Club (1999) [1920x800 - BRRip].mp4
Detected as: Brooklyn Girls Fight Club

This one, not sure, as it's the first hit, year or no year.

movies\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011) [1920x816 - BRRip].mp4
Detected as: Captain America: The First Avenger - Disney Plus "VFX of Captain America: The First Avenger"

https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Captain America - The First Avenger (2011) - No Hits.  caused by the use of '-' instead of ':' but of course you cannot use ':' in the name ...  Is emby not substituting these values ?

https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Captain America - The First Avenger y%3A2011 - Hit

So same issue as below - use the year flag in the tmdb search and it works - is emby not using this via the API query ?

\movies\Her (2013)\Her (2013) [1920x1040 - BluRay].mp4
Detected as: Her Elephant Man

https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Her - No hits - but if you use the year flag, then you do get a hit.  So is emby not using the year flag when searching themoviedb.org ?  If not, why not ?

https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Her y%3A2013 - Hit.

 

 

[rbjtech 5284]

To add (I was hunting for this earlier - now found it ..)

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming

You can actually add the id into the file/directory name for a direct lookup.

ie

\her (2013) [tmdb=152601] 

should find it ..

Thanks for adding into the KB @cayars...

 

ID Tags in Folder & File Names

Emby can also read a Meta-Data ID from the name.

Format:

Name (Year) [tmdbid=xxxx]

Example:

 

Alone (2020) [tmdbid=509635]

Emby supports the following tags with the host website for lookup.

tmdbid  (https://www.themoviedb.org/)

imdbid  (https://www.imdb.com/)

tvdbid  (https://thetvdb.com/)

Edited October 14, 2020 by rbjtech

[Luke 42081]

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I have tried with both The Open Movie Database as well as TheMovieDb, but neither is managing my collection correctly.

Hi, if you trust the default settings, I think it should be able to match those folder names just fine.

[Valyth 2]

Hi everyone, and thank for the support. This is resolved.

PenkethBoy actually called it - apparently I had some nfo files in my collection that contained the incorrect metadata.  It didn't affect all movies, but it affected enough that it was causing big issues.  I'm not sure where those files came from - Radarr isn't setup to create them, but I think at one point I had an old Kodi setup that created .nfo files, and this was probably a relic of that. They're gone now.

Thanks again for the fantastic and quick assistance. I'd never have thought to look for .nfo files without being pointed in the right direction.  What an amazing community!

[Luke 42081]

Thanks for the feedback !

[rbjtech 5284]

13 hours ago, Valyth said:

Hi everyone, and thank for the support. This is resolved.

PenkethBoy actually called it - apparently I had some nfo files in my collection that contained the incorrect metadata.  It didn't affect all movies, but it affected enough that it was causing big issues.  I'm not sure where those files came from - Radarr isn't setup to create them, but I think at one point I had an old Kodi setup that created .nfo files, and this was probably a relic of that. They're gone now.

Thanks again for the fantastic and quick assistance. I'd never have thought to look for .nfo files without being pointed in the right direction.  What an amazing community!

To add, if you are using Radarr - then within Radarr itself in the 'Media Management config' - if you modify the 'Movie Folder Format' to include the Emby recognised ID details, then you should get a direct lookup every time.  Same with Sonarr as well.

For example -

Edited October 15, 2020 by rbjtech