So, I made the mistake of accidentally removing my movie library in Kodi. When I added it back, it was way out of whack. About 1,000 movies aren’t being scraped, and another several hundred are scraped incorrectly.
Right away, this is extremely frustrating, and there does not appear to be an easy way to fix this. Yes, I’m aware of the Missing Movies extension. Still a lot of work to toggle between that and the Movies tab where you can actually update anything.
Anyway, I found that the scraper was going back and RE-BREAKING movies I had manually fixed.
Many (but not all) of the movies I was having problems with had NFO files so I deleted those.
Now when I click Movie Information > Refresh and then click through until it gets to “Loading Movie Details”, it just hangs and hangs forever and never replaces the information.
In several cases I removed the incorrect movies from the library.
In addition to THIS, any time I do a scan (on every startup), I have the scan details visible, and it shows the SAME incorrect movies getting scanned, and they also take FOREVER and of course never add correctly. Scraping takes like 20 minutes.
Also, some of the incorrect names are just frustratingly stupid. “C.H.U.D.mkv” is defaulted to “Chudo” instead of C.H.U.D. A movie called “6 Souls becomes” “7 Souls”. “Last Days in the Desert” becomes “50 Days in the Desert”. “7 Minutes” becomes “3 Minutes”. What even are these movies?
Also, I have the Backup add-on, which I thought would protect against these kinds of disasters, but I found that it does absolutely nothing to protect your library from having the metadata you want.
I know this seems like a lot of rambling, because I can’t really articulate the problem other than everything is screwed up and it appears to be impossible to fix.
Any help anyone can possibly offer would be greatly appreciated.