I had the series Star Wars Rebels in my library, but the TMDB series order doesn’t make sense. I used tinyMediaManager to pull a better order from TVDB. Now I have the right order, but the thumbnails are wrong. For example TMDB had “Droids in Distress” as Season 1 episode 1. With the new metadata it is episode 3, but the thumbnail for episode 1 still shows that thumbnail rather than the one in my folder labeled as “Star Wars Rebels S01E01-thumb.jpg”.
Many times I have clicked “Scan for changes” and “Refresh Metadata” but it doesn’t update. I don’t know if it sees the same file name and just assumes it has the latest image or what. I tried pulling the thumb for the first episode to a different place and then refreshing metadata, putting it back again and refreshing again, but no luck.
It would be great if there were a way to force a metadata refresh for a single title. That would really help when setting your library up for the first time as I often have to make changes to file names or metadata to get the result I want.
Thanks for the tip! I used tinyMediaManager as in the instructions, but they didn’t specify which NFO format to use. I stuck with the default, which is Kodi. I don’t know if it would name the graphics differently if I changed it to, say, Plex.
I changed the names of the image files and then refreshed meta data. That didn’t work. So I did “Edit metadata” for the episode and chose my .nfo file. That caused it to update. Kind of tedious for all those episodes, but at least it’s working.