can't force movie to identify

[justinrh 260]

I can't force a movie to identify.  Anything I try gives zero results.  Title and year - fail.  Title, year, and IMDb ID (tt0462581) - fail.  Title, year, and IMDb URL (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462581/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2tt0462581) - fail.  Then, of course, I have to click back > more > Identify between each iteration since there is no choice to try again before aborting.

Shouldn't the IMDb ID alone be enough?

What am I doing wrong?

[Luke 42081]

Hi, what metadata fetchers are enabled on your movie library and in what order?

The answer to your question is : does the first fetcher have that imdb id in their database?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

Try simply placing tt0462581 it the IMDB field. The rest of what you showed may be confusing things. Leave all other fields empty.

Edited December 5, 2020 by Gilgamesh_48

[justinrh 260]

I did try only the ID (sorry, didn't mention that).

 

 

I just toggled on OMD, tried the ID, and got a hit!  But the movie item poster won't actually update; refreshed (F5) the library and the movie item.  (the other metadata did update)

(I see the selected hit image bug is fixed - yeah!)

[Luke 42081]

Well done.

[justinrh 260]

Suggestion on how to get the poster to update?

[Luke 42081]

What do you mean "wouldn't update"? We'd have to look at an example. thanks.

[justinrh 260]

On 12/5/2020 at 11:55 AM, Luke said:

What do you mean "wouldn't update"? We'd have to look at an example. thanks.

I don't know what 'wouldn't update' could mean other than the thing doesn't change - no update.  Is there something special about this video that precludes the poster update?

 

before identification (default poster assigned by Emby)

 

poster seen during identification

 

after identification

 

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

Since that image is coming from a online cache for OMDB, I assume OMDB no longer has the image.  There are a couple of issues like this from OMDB.  I would guess you would see a error in the log for Emby trying to get that image directly from OMDB.

{"Search":[{"Title":"Troy's Story","Year":"2005","imdbID":"tt0462581","Type":"movie","Poster":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ5Mzc0NzczNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTUyMjE2MQ@@._V1_SX300.jpg"}],"totalResults":"1","Response":"True"}

 

[Luke 42081]

What image providers are enabled on your library and in what order? Did you check what images your enabled image providers have available?

[justinrh 260]

19 hours ago, Luke said:

What image providers are enabled on your library and in what order? Did you check what images your enabled image providers have available?

I had the defaults.  So, I toggled on OMD and that seemed to work - thank you.  From the recent identify issues I've had, let me make some observations:

1. I'd think some of these errors (failure of some sort, right?) could be trapped and the user notified
2. I've not that these kinds of issues on that other platform, so I didn't even think to dig into the library settings
3. these kinds of issues could really throw newbies (to tech or to Emby) for a loop

Unless me and my issues are far out in left field, maybe these things can be used to guide future improvements.

[Luke 42081]

Hi, yes this workflow can certainly be improved and those ideas make good sense. Thanks for the feedback.