Similar Folder Names Getting Ignored?

[Dreakon13 143]

Hi, I ran into an issue in messing with changing my Anime library to one Mixed Content library instead of two TV Shows and Movies libraries.  Unfortunately I fixed it, and don't really want to re-break it to prove anything... so take this bug report for what it's worth.

 

This is how I originally had it set up on my NAS HDD.  Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

 

 

What was happening, is only Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood was getting picked up and including the Fullmetal Alchemist episodes in it (so both shows were grouping up into Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood).  It's fixed now but I crossed it out in the screenshot to represent the line that was missing in the metadata editor prior to fixing it.

Changing the first Fullmetal Alchemist to "Full Metal Alchemist" fixed this and separated them into the correct shows (note: that technically isn't the correct spelling on TheTVDB).  I'm assuming since the two folder names were so similar that something wonky was happening?

Fixed naming:

It should be noted that the episode metadata for Brotherhood wasn't reading in correctly before or after the fix due to the awkward filenames.  Maybe that played into the confusion as well?  I've since also fixed that.

I'm on server version 4.6.3.0

Edited June 24, 2021 by Dreakon13

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, this seems most like the media folder name was incorrect and didn't have any year info in it to help with identification.

[Dreakon13 143]

14 minutes ago, cayars said:

Hi, this seems most like the media folder name was incorrect and didn't have any year info in it to help with identification.

Is it weird that TheTVDB has it as "Fullmetal Alchemist" and not "Full Metal Alchemist"?  Changing it to the wrong one fixed the problem... which led me to believe that both spellings would probably work in a vacuum, but having another folder so similar in "Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood" maybe threw it off?  I'm assuming its using the folder name for identification.

I can maybe tinker with it a bit after work and see if I can come up with a more conclusive cause and effect for what I was seeing.

EDIT: FWIW, I think it was parsing it out correctly as a TV Show library.  Changing it to Mixed Content (rather, deleting the old library and making a new one) maybe changed something about how it was reading in.

Edited June 24, 2021 by Dreakon13

[pwhodges 2014]

In this instance, at some point when reorganising some libraries, I named the FMA folders thus:

Previously I had identified them manually, but I guess this removed the need to do that.  I didn't have to do do anything fancy with the file names in the folders.

Paul

[Happy2Play 9783]

Yes the only thing I can think of is misidentification/series merging.  But adding providerid to folder is the ultimate fix as they can not be misidentified.

[Dreakon13 143]

Oh, neato.  Didn't realize I could put the id in the folder name to help things along (or the year tbh but could've guessed that at least lol).  Good to know.  Whatever the reason for it, seems like I have some tools to leverage at least.

Thanks for the help.

Edited June 24, 2021 by Dreakon13

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I just tested it and it's a TVDB issue.  If you search for Fullmetal Alchemist the first response they give isn't the original series but instead Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.  This is stupid and their search algorithm needs kicked

Just add the year to your folder names and it solves the issue.  The first result for 'Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)' is the original show.  When I scanned a folder without the year in the folder name I reproduced @Dreakon13 issue.  When I tried again with release years in the folder name it recognized things correctly.