SOLVED: Override default metadata provider per series?

[SenorSmartyPants]

Is it possible to override per tv series? (I don't think it currently is)

I have my tv library set up to pull metadata from TMDB first, and then TVDB for any missing details (like special airs order). I prefer TMDB because, well TVDB being TVDB. 

But now, enter into the picture Doctor Who (2005) Season 14 (TVDB), or is it Doctor Who (2024) Season 1(TMDB)? I'd prefer to keep this as one series so I want to use TVDB as the primary source for Doctor Who (2005) now. I could keep my set up as is, except for the fact that special numbering between TMDB and TVDB has diverged. So all the specials after Season 13 have different numbers on these two metadata providers.

How are other people dealing with this situation?

[TheDreadPirate]

The only way to do this is to go into the library settings and either swap the provider priorities around or disable them. Then do your scan for this show. Once that is done switch it back.

There is no way to set per-show providers.

[SenorSmartyPants]

I tried to create a new library that would just use TVDB metadata. I put the specials in that library and scanned, got the right metadata no problem. Then I went to my user display settings and added that library to be merged with the other tv libraries. That kind of worked, but not really. The series was a separate entity. I was hoping it would get merged like when you have multiple folders in one library. But it did not.

Looks like I will probably have to go with TheDreadPirate's advice. Switch the metadata provider order, scan, then I think I will lock those episodes.

What I finally ended up doing was using the TVDB library I had to scan (you could do this by switching provider order too), but I also turned on NFO writing and saving images in the media folder. I tweaked those NFOs slightly to not reference the episode images by URL, and to set lockdata to true. I then moved the video files, NFOs, and images back into my main library. Now I have the correct metadata with IMDB and TVDB ids, and images. They show up correctly in next up now as well.

[SenorSmartyPants]

SNIP - included in solution post above