mislabeled programs - incorrect year

[NDInnova 0]

Hi, unsure if this is the proper place to report but I have two shows that are being recorded as an ancient version of each

DuckTales (2017) is being recorded as DuckTales (1987) - Channel 906 Disney XD

Swamp Thing (2020) is being recorded as Swamp Thing (1990) - Channel 809 KDAF HD

Guide: USA-TX63900-X

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, please attach the emby server log from the time of the recording. Thanks.

[richt 94]

I've seen a similar issue in which a year isn't specified in the EPG, so it appears that on access to TVDB, Emby is picking the earliest iteration of the series name.  Is there any way to write a rule to substitute a corrected series name for the TVDB lookup?  For example, when the EPG is recording the series "Pandora", can a rule be written on the local Emby instance to use "Pandora 2019".

My logs have been purged, but I'll have another example after the next episode of "Pandora" is recorded tomorrow from the local CW channel.  For this series the episode metadata is correct as it is taken from the EPG but the show is recorded to folder "Pandora 2008" and pulls the image metadata from Pandora 2008 instead of Pandora 2019 which is the show being recorded.  Same thing happened last season with "Magnum P.I.".

[NDInnova 0]

Some time last week when I noticed I renamed the "DuckTales" directory "DuckTales (2017)" and emby appears to now be placing the recordings in that directory--however the thumb nails in the library all appear to be from the ancient 1987 version of the show. An episode hasn't recorded in the time the logs exist, when it happens I'll grab them.

I'll grab logs for swamp thing when it airs next.

[Luke 42077]

1 minute ago, NDInnova said:

 

I'll grab logs for swamp thing when it airs next.

Thanks.

[richt 94]

Here is a section of the log containing the most recent recording of Pandora.  The search for Pandora is picking up Pandora (2008).  If there isn't a way to fix this today, can you consider adding one?  There are multiple ways this type of naming issue can be resolved.  One is a providing a method in the recording settings section of the UI for the user to specify the one to use (by year, TVDBID, etc) or do the same thing by referencing a user maintained XML file.  Another would be to pull all series of the same name, compare the years and use the most recent year.  This assumes the most recent year series name is the one desired, which also may not be 100% accurate.

embyserver1.txt

[NDInnova 0]

Here is both Swamp Thing and DuckTales snippets together since they overlapped:

 

 

 

 

 

Emby-ducktales-swampthing.txt

Edited October 23, 2020 by NDInnova
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[Luke 42077]

On 10/21/2020 at 11:42 AM, richt said:

Here is a section of the log containing the most recent recording of Pandora.  The search for Pandora is picking up Pandora (2008).  If there isn't a way to fix this today, can you consider adding one?  There are multiple ways this type of naming issue can be resolved.  One is a providing a method in the recording settings section of the UI for the user to specify the one to use (by year, TVDBID, etc) or do the same thing by referencing a user maintained XML file.  Another would be to pull all series of the same name, compare the years and use the most recent year.  This assumes the most recent year series name is the one desired, which also may not be 100% accurate.

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Did you already have the Pandora (2008) folder created on your system, or did it create it as part of this recording?

[richt 94]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Did you already have the Pandora (2008) folder created on your system, or did it create it as part of this recording?

The folder did not exist previously, but was created at the time of the recording.  After each recording I move the files into a folder named Pandora (2019), delete the 2008 folder and each time a new Pandora (2008) folder is created.

Edited October 25, 2020 by richt

[Luke 42077]

Ok please see if the tvdb plugin update that went out today helps. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Was wondering what the plugin update was for. No update info.

[richt 94]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

Ok please see if the tvdb plugin update that went out today helps. Thanks.

The update was too late for the recording today.  I won't have an answer until the recording next Sunday.

[Luke 42077]

4 minutes ago, richt said:

The update was too late for the recording today.  I won't have an answer until the recording next Sunday.

Ok thanks for the update.

[richt 94]

@Luke

I checked the recording of Pandora (2019) from last night and the update appears to have resolved the issue I was having.  If you don't mind me asking, how did you resolve the lookup?  Just curious if it will resolve problems for other current TV shows that are re-incarnations of older shows like Magnum PI, etc...

[Luke 42077]

Sometimes tvdb includes the year as part of the series title, so we needed to make sure to ignore that.