I manually edited the following movies in Google Drive (streaming to Infuse) to reflect the correct title and year as registered in The Movie Database (TMDb). I also cleared the metadata in Infuse settings to start fresh. I’m not sure why Infuse is fetching the incorrect metadata for the first two examples listed below. As for the third example, I can understand why the metadata would be mismatched, and I assume that manually correcting the metadata in Infuse is the best option for me in this instance. Any insight would be appreciated.
Total Recall (1990)
Total Recall (2012)
Infuse fetches the Total Recall (1990) metadata.
The Captain (2017)
Infuse fetches Captain Underpants (2017)
One of Us (2017)
Infuse fetches a different movie with the same title and year: One of Us (2017)
Can you provide examples of how your Total Recall movies are named?
For the other two, these are the top (most popular) results Infuse gets from TMDb. Usually these are pretty accurate, but a few manual corrections may be required here and there.
No, I did not do that.
I share the movies with my family and then they don’t find the movies.
I can’t expect my mum to be able to recognize the error and reload the information on her own.
And my dad isn’t much more talented than my mum when it comes to technical stuff.
I could barely teach my brothers and sisters, but one has to first figure out that there is an error.
You don’t see that until you select the specific movie.
That’s why I’d much rather have a real solution to the problem than a workaround, which might get thrown out at the next re-/indexing.
I think it’s a bad approach to try to get around a problem in the short term.
It doesn’t fix the problem, and it may not be the only movie in my collection that could be affected.
Maybe there are more and I just haven’t discovered it yet?
We are a bigger family and Apple only supports a limited number of family members.
That’s why my siblings and my parents have their own AppleID families.
Sometimes it also happens that a movie has a typo in the file name and it needs to be corrected.
It can happen that Infuse doesn’t update and you have to re-index again.
Annoying, but I can live with that.
That’s why it’s important to me that Infuse itself stores the information correctly and I don’t have to do it manually.
With Plex, the recognition of the movie Total Recall works without issues.
I could easily switch to Plex, but my parents like the sleek design of Infuse.
But that’s another story.
Wouldn’t it be much easier for the users if Infuse would fill mp4 and mkv files with the metadata? That would solve the problem afaik. Even for each individual film by confirmation or you give the general confirmation. If you then manually correct some movies, the new entry is stored again in the archive. Infuse doesn’t have to touch the video or audio file for that. They’re archives 99% of the time and information can be stored there. Same goes for subtitles, covers and metadata. That would be great!
I read the thread. A few things — you didn’t tell Infuse to fix the ID, and the only other way to do that is delete the metadata.
Your searches on TMDB did not include the year filter (Total Recall y:2012)
If you embedded the metadata as you mentioned above, that’s not Infuse’s fault, as it will use the embedded metadata to identify files (if “use embedded metadata” was enabled on import or refreshing of metadata) — therefore the imbedded data must be incorrect.
Correct. Since I share my library with the family and all have their own AppleID’s, everyone would have to correct this for themselves. I can’t put my parents through that.
I deleted the metadata. I even wrote all the information in the mkv. incl. cover, title, year, actors, etc. just everything. Still Infuse catches the wrong movie.
Correct, however I don’t know how this should solve my problem in Infuse? IMDB is correct for me. I see that there are two movies. Infuse, however, does not recognize the two different movies, despite all the metadata from IMDB, which I captured with MKV Tag Editor.
Infuse fails to keep these two films apart. No matter if there is metadata in the file or not. In both cases, even if I rebuild the meta data, these two movies are always captured incorrectly. No, manually searching and tagging in Infuse is not a solution to my situation, because it will still be wrong for my parents and siblings. The problem could be solved if Infuse would add the information directly to the MKV.
Even if all family members would correct the movies on themselves, it happens that after updates from Infuse or Apple, the information is lost and must be repaired again. This is a real hassle. I have to keep lists of which files Infuse could screw up again.
I have these two movies, frequently erase and rebuild my metadata caches, and can assure you they aren’t.
Perhaps, once you correct it manually.
Your other users would still need to refresh their metadata (with embedded metadata option enabled) to see the changes.
