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Videos not reading local NFO - stargazer - 2025-01-28
I have a load of music videos, all in their own folders, and use local NFO files for metadata as lookups are often wrong. The Wiki says that videos use same protocol as movies, so either media-name.nfo or movie.nfo should work. Up until now movie.nfo seemed to be working fine. Not sure if it is 10.10.5 or 10.10.4 but this seems to have stopped working, added some new videos and the NFOs are ignored, with metadata taken from IMVDB (which is picking entirely incorrect videos). I've tried using MEDIANAME.NFO instead of MOVIE.NFO in the folders, but makes no difference - just seems to be ignoring the local NFO, or over-writing it with IMVDB info.
RE: Videos not reading local NFO - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-28
Not sure if this an intended change or not, but when I use NFO saver on a music video library it creates a NFO with the same name as the music video it belongs to.
I recall some NFO related changes in .4 or .5, so I'll double check if this was an unintended change or not.
RE: Videos not reading local NFO - stargazer - 2025-01-28
I've got it set NOT to save in NFO, just read the ones I have already put there - I did try turning on save briefly just to check behaviour - but didn't change my inability to override IMVDB info. For info, I only use NFO files for music videos, as matching is usually poor. For movies and shows I just modify the name to include the appropriate [tmdbid-] tag. I guess I could turn off the fetchers like IMVDB for music videos, but if there is a valid info available it would be nice to fetch it - but not if it's going to override the local NFO.
RE: Videos not reading local NFO - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-28
Not sure if this is an intended change or not, but no matter how I organize my files in a NFO library it wants the NFO file name to be the same as the video's file name.
I'm thinking this is a 10.10 change since I don't see any changes in .4 or .5 that would cause this.
Regardless, if you want Jellyfin to only read the NFO you would have to disable all external providers. IIRC, if any of the external providers respond with any amount of metadata the NFO is not read.
RE: Videos not reading local NFO - stargazer - 2025-01-28
Whatever the cause, I've decided to remove IMVDB as a metadata source, it's just too error prone for lookup. I've left it as an image source though. I did try just editing the metadata for an individual video, then locking the metadata, removing the images and then refresh. I'd only added about a dozen new videos, but as an ongoing fix, that's too much trouble.
For some reason doing a refresh metadata with replace all and images does not seem to be resetting - so I might have to remove the folders and/or library before re-adding them.