Quickly remove metadata for an individual movie

[picotrain1 0]

Hi,

Brand new to Emby and importing catalog of ~4,000 titles.  I have had many issues with the scraper.  For most well known movies I get about a 80% success rate.  For obscure titles I get about 50% correct.  Those have all been fixed, but now the problem remains that I have ~2,000 shorts or animation clips that don't exist anywhere on imdb or themoviedb.  I was previously using Kodi so anything not found already has a .nfo file created.  However, when scanning the library files the scraper pulls in completely unrelated information and I have to manually go and edit the metadata and delete every field not associated with the actual title, then all the images.  It's taking way too long to complete this and is not feasible for me to continue this way for the remaining titles in my library. 

My folder structure is such that these shorts are integrated with the rest of the movies so it isn't feasible to find and pull them all out and create a new library for just these titles.  Having said that I thought I would give it a try with one folder.  Based on another post, I created a new library with the test folder and set the content to Home Videos.  For some reason it did the same thing and pulled in additional information from the scrape.  Another test I performed was to create another Movie library containing only a folder with titles and .nfo files.  I set the content to movies and unchecked all scraper options from the library settings except anything related to .nfo.  After scanning no titles showed up at all no matter what I did.

Ideally there would be a optional setting to ignore scraping if a .nfo file exists, but at the very least a one click option to easily remove metadata/images for an individual title once the library has been scanned.  Am I missing something?  Any ideas or workarounds are appreciated. 

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[rodainas 191]

Ideally there would be a optional setting to ignore scraping if a .nfo file exists
 

Just disabling the metadara downloaders and enabling nfo reader on library options should do the trick.

[GrimReaper 4749]

Even with scrapers enabled, nfo would take precedence. What is the format of your nfos?

[picotrain1 0]

@rodainas When I tested this out it did not work, I may have set something incorrectly.  However, the problem like I said is that the movie files are all in one folder.  The short films may be in another folder with a bunch of movies that I do need to scrape.  It would take a very long time to try and segregate them.

@GrimReaper76The .nfo is taking precedence, but they all have limited information.  For example if the .nfo file has title and director those are not scraped, but everything else is.  I don't want any other information scraped in the cases where it doesn't exist in the .nfo file.

Edited July 12, 2021 by picotrain1
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[GrimReaper 4749]

Hm, I don't see a way to make your particular setup work, since you have both items you DON'T WANT scraped and items you DO WANT scraped mixed inside same library (hence sharing same library setting, meaning scrapers enabled or disabled); since your nfos are partially formatted, Emby will naturally try to populate missing fields (scrapers enabled) OR you won't be able to scrape your full movies, those without nfos (scrapers disabled).

You might wanna raise Feature Request in the appropriate Forum section, for ignoring scraping if accompanying nfo file is present, and possibly gain some traction there but I wouldn't hold my breath.

P.S. I can potentially see this being feasible in 3rd party app (TMM), haven't tested it, though.

Edit: Yep, doable.

 

Edited July 12, 2021 by GrimReaper76
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[Carlo 4561]

Hi, The best thing would be to spend the time to separate the media into actual movies vs shorts and have these in two different libraries in Emby. This way you could have two different library types with adjustments to metadata for each library.

[picotrain1 0]

Thanks for all the input.  For now, I have decided to leave the folder structure as is and just power through cleaning up the metadata.  I resorted to just directly modifying the library.db file since it's much easier to find the incorrect metadata and I can just do a batch update instead of having to modify each and every field directly.  

@GrimReaper76I've never used TMM, but it does have some interesting features that I might be able to use going forward, thanks for the suggestion.

[rodainas 191]

1 hour ago, picotrain1 said:

Thanks for all the input.  For now, I have decided to leave the folder structure as is and just power through cleaning up the metadata.  I resorted to just directly modifying the library.db file since it's much easier to find the incorrect metadata and I can just do a batch update instead of having to modify each and every field directly.  

@GrimReaper76I've never used TMM, but it does have some interesting features that I might be able to use going forward, thanks for the suggestion.

I have a feature request to customize metadata by field (provider, language, disabled, enabled, etc. applied to title. Plot, ratings, etc.) to have more control to what emby scrapes, making it more alike to an advanced scrapper like TMM, you can give a like there if you want to support it.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/99109-customizable-scraping-options/

Edited July 12, 2021 by rodainas

[Happy2Play 9783]

Sounds like you need to add this media with locked metadata.