The new Watchmen series shows up as episode 1 of the 2008 Watchmen Motion Comics. When I do a search for Watchmen, only the Motion Comics show pops up. How can I fix this?
How do you have the file named?
Watchmen.S01E01
Iâve tried Watchmen.2019.S01E01 but that didnât work either.
Best I can tell, ya just canât get there from here. I tried every combination and edit I could think of and it wonât pull the correct metadata. Like you, I can get the 2008 thing but thatâs way off.
It may just be so new that it hasnât spread to their search database. Iâm going to give it a few days more and see if it wakes up.
EDIT TO ADD: The real kicker is itâs on thetvdb.com here Watchmen - TheTVDB.com Thereâs just no captain crunch secret decoder ring setting that brings that up as an option in the search.
Thereâs gotta be some kind of delay for external api searches or something. It doesnât show up in Infuse even when doing a manual search for âwatchmenâ. Very annoying.
Iâve had similar problems with a couple of movies in the past, where the title wouldnât show up, even when searching. This usually was a title what multiple movies share, but adding a year usually did the trick.
Same problem here!
Weâre looking into this, but it seems it may be a TVDb issue.
Whatâs a little weird is you can use the Japanese title in your filenames and it will work.
ĺŽćč S01E01.mkv
Update: This is confirmed to be an issue with the search results provided by TheTVDb.
Holy smokes! And I thought I tried some off the wall options of file names when beating on the metadata fetching!!
I tip my hat to the master⌠I think Iâll wait for the English version to work. LOL
No need to change the file name, just search in Japanese (copy paste) works too.
Thanks!
Ok, how did you copy and paste the Japanese characters on the Apple TV?
By copying the text on my iPad, then edited the series on Apple TV, used the iPad as an input device and paste the symbols. This can also be done directly on the iPad/iPhone app ofcourse.
Thanks!
Great tip, thanks!
My guess is Infuse (or the TVDB API) finds Watchmen the movie, stops searching for the exact title âWatchmenâ, then finds out it is not the TV show.
Thanks for the Japanese workaround
Also can be found using âwatchmen \ :â donât know why but spotted on different forum, seems to be affecting other tvdb based app lookups.
the : isnât necessary. It came up with the correct title after the \
Thanks ?
Why would it be a TVDB issue if Plex scrapes it correctly but Infuse doesnât?
The metadata manual search has been totally broken in one way or another for years, and has never been fixed, and probably never will. Infuse really should let you be able to perform a fully unfiltered search. Its a complete nightmare trying to find things sometimes.
What I want, is the search to work across both databases, without any kind of filtering. If I type Watchmen, then Infuse should display all search results with that name, from both the TVDB and the Movie DB. I donât care if someone else has labelled a TV movie as a TV Movie, or a real Movie, I just want Infuse to display all results according to what I have typed in, regardless of what someone at one of these DB companies thinks it actually is. The TV specials genre is bloody awful to try and search through with Infuse, with many being classified as movies, even though they are TV specials⌠I should not care less which directory I have put my Special of Doctor Who into, I just want Infuse to find the bloody metadata for it, and add it to my library. Why should the directory a file is located in, decide which DB Infuse will search, and more importantly, force ME to searchâŚ?
There is nothing worse than that feeling I get when Infuse cannot identify something, and a wasted half an hour later, it ends up being a bug, or the file has to be moved from your TV Shows directory, or vice-versa, in to the Movies folder, as the ONLY way to make it work.