Incorrect names

[embyinaa 0]

I have quite a collection (100+) of videos (e.g. TV shows, etc) which Emby could not identify and make very bad guesses. This results is bizarre artwork and names that are so far from reasonable I cannot tell some files apart. I have details for each of these (e.g. name, year, genre, description) already in files.

(1) How can I get Emby to NOT try to get information on these? The default action at least gives me something more reasonable. I'm looking for a way to do this for a list of shows. Clicking several times for each one (times 100+) is not reasonable

(2) Short of manually editing the metadata (unreasonable for 100+ entries), is there some way to automate setting the metadata. Clicking several times for each one (times 100+) is not reasonable

I'm thinking of how WordPress has a command line program that can be used to set fields in it's database. - very handy for mass/automated changes.  Does Emby have anything like that?

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[Luke 42090]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Thanks.

[pwhodges 2014]

1 hour ago, embyinaa said:

I have quite a collection (100+) of videos (e.g. TV shows, etc) which Emby could not identify and make very bad guesses. This results is bizarre artwork and names that are so far from reasonable I cannot tell some files apart. I have details for each of these (e.g. name, year, genre, description) already in files.

Emby is usually good at getting the correct information, so long as the folder structure and file naming follows the guidelines.

Details of the guidelines are here:
https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/folders/44000764515

If you could show us the folders and naming of some of your files which are not being identified correctly, we may be able to suggest why.

Paul

[embyinaa 0]

NO database seems to contain details of many videos. For example

ls Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/*.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/House_Calls.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/Penny_for_the_Guy.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/No_Other_Love.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/True_Confessions.mkv

This is from a TV show on PBS and I think originally from BBC. All the mkv names are correct - e.g. name of the episode. Every choice by Emby is wrong.

I don't expect Emby to figure out every video ever created. What I am hoping for is a utility program I can run to force Emby to not attempt to figure these out so that when they are re-scanned, the name will be taken from the mkv and the image will come from the mkv file itself (or so it appears in some cases at least).

I have hundreds of cases where this happened, so I'm hoping for a command line program I can run to do this.  I also have text for each of these with other metadata (year etc) which would be nice to insert in the Emby metadata.

As I said earlier WordPress has such a utility and it allows making mass changes trivial. I'm hoping Emby developers have something similar.

 

[Happy2Play 9785]

40 minutes ago, embyinaa said:

NO database seems to contain details of many videos. For example

ls Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/*.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/House_Calls.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/Penny_for_the_Guy.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/No_Other_Love.mkv
Videos/TV/Touch_of_Frost/Season5/True_Confessions.mkv

This is from a TV show on PBS and I think originally from BBC. All the mkv names are correct - e.g. name of the episode. Every choice by Emby is wrong.

I don't expect Emby to figure out every video ever created. What I am hoping for is a utility program I can run to force Emby to not attempt to figure these out so that when they are re-scanned, the name will be taken from the mkv and the image will come from the mkv file itself (or so it appears in some cases at least).

I have hundreds of cases where this happened, so I'm hoping for a command line program I can run to do this.  I also have text for each of these with other metadata (year etc) which would be nice to insert in the Emby metadata.

As I said earlier WordPress has such a utility and it allows making mass changes trivial. I'm hoping Emby developers have something similar.

 

Looks like it is on TVDB as A Touch of Frost, the season 5 episodes match but they need episode identifiers.

A Touch of Frost - Aired Order - Season 5 - TheTVDB.com

Same with TMDB

A Touch of Frost (TV Series 1992-2010) — The Movie Database (TMDb) (themoviedb.org)

But if all you media is missing episode number you always have issue.  You will need approved naming scheme.

Emby TV Naming : Emby

 

 

Edited March 3, 2021 by Happy2Play

[pwhodges 2014]

2 hours ago, embyinaa said:

All the mkv names are correct - e.g. name of the episode. Every choice by Emby is wrong.

As I said - follow the naming conventions!  Every online database looks up by episode number, not name - not least because names can vary in different regions, and translations.  So you haven't yet given them a chance!

There are various programs which can look up and rename the files in a manner that will suit if doing it manually is too daunting.  The ones that come to my mind are FileBot and Tiny Media Manager, but I don't use any so other people may have different suggestions.

Paul