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IMVDb update wrong release year - vrom1784937 - 2025-12-16
I’m seeing systematic incorrect metadata updates from the IMVDb plugin regarding the release date/year of music videos.
Example:
Code:
<title>Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go</title>
<year>2017</year>
<premiered>2017-04-02</premiered>
<releasedate>2017-04-02</releasedate>
<imvdbid>265564083899</imvdbid>
<imvdb_slugid>https://imvdb.com/video/wham/wake-me-up-before-you-go-go</imvdb_slugid>This metadata is incorrect. According to IMVDb itself, the video was released in 1984, which matches the original single release year:
https://imvdb.com/video/wham/wake-me-up-before-you-go-go
What’s more concerning is that this is not an isolated case:
a large number of music videos in my library are being updated with the same year 2017, regardless of the actual historical release date.
Environment
- Jellyfin version: 10.11.5
- IMVDb plugin version: 5.0.0.0
Expected behavior
The plugin should use the correct release year as provided by IMVDb (e.g. 1984 in this case), and not overwrite existing metadata with an incorrect default.
Observed behavior
- year, premiered and releasedate are set to 2017
- The value appears to be reused across many unrelated videos
- Existing correct metadata is overwritten
Impact
This breaks chronological sorting, decade-based views, and any library organization relying on correct release dates.