nfo / tmdb priority

[marcelhehle 1]

Most of my movies have nfo files. For some of the movies Emby has correctly matched them on TMDB leading to the situation that TMDB data overwrites nfo data (e.g. for the plot or the list of actors). Is there a way to change that so that nfo data gets prioritzed over metadata scraped from TMDB?

 

 

[Luke 42086]

Hi, nfo data is always prioritized first. There is nothing you need to do to enable this.

[marcelhehle 1]

That's weird .. I've at least one movie where for example the tagline get's pulled from the nfo, but no matter what changes I make, the plot stays on the information that TMDB provides.

 

[Luke 42086]

We'd have to go over a specific example. Thanks.

[marcelhehle 1]

Well .. it's from my adult library that I scrape with my own scripts. Up until <plot> all changes from the nfo get pulled, but nothing afterwards.

(the <uniqueid> and <uniqueurl> tags are not read by Emby. I use them for my own scripts)

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[Luke 42086]

Does that validate as valid xml? you may want to use a cdata element to contain the plot data.

[marcelhehle 1]

Well ... I've around 3000 movies. 99% of them are treated correctly. It's only a few where I see these problems. ... but the hint with the cdata element is good. I'll give it a try.

[Luke 42086]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[marcelhehle 1]

No change ... also with <![CDATA[...]]> changes to the plot won't get picked up. I can change any attribute before <plot> and it will pick it up, but <plot> and anything afterwards is ignored.

 

I also checked the item within Emby: there's no lock on the metadata set.

 

Weird. Really weird.

[marcelhehle 1]

As a test I've just deactivated any external metadata sources on that library: now everything get's scraped properly out of the nfo files.

 

But once I switch on TMDB some files get correctly, others incorrectly identified and my nfo content get's (at least partially) overwritten.

[Luke 42086]

Example?