I’ve read the comments below about the TMDB Bible and I understand that some things are explained and well thought out, others are philosophical. I only point out that stuff gets added, sucked into Trakt, and then removed from TMDB. Some of it’s been migrated so it will never be updated. I’m not saying they are wrong, but here is a dead migrated TMDB link to a show that doesn’t exist:
I come across them all the time. I love Trakt. I just have to be very carefull when I’m working on lists because some movies are really shows and the watch now link won’t typically show you where you can watch a movie that is really a show. So again, I have to be careful when I work on movie lists like TSPDT. Those lists have lots of movies that are dead links and should really be shows.
The ultimate problem is when it is changed/removed from TMDB, it is not removed from Trakt and remains with the TMDB datasource. Hence there is a false sense of security that you can actually refresh data or know that it is being maintained.
Aye. Same thing happened with RiffTrax. I sent in a support request to have it unlinked from TMDB and reassociated and synced with TVDB until such time that Trakt removes that support. And Trakt did so.
it appears that it is because people add listings incorrectly, or add duplicates. TMDB is usually on top of this and deletes them right away, but not before someone adds them to Trakt. That is how you end up with dead links. This can be fixed on Trakt by clicking report movie/show on the main page of that item and detailing the issue. If they are still on TVDB that is because it takes them years to fix one locked air date.
According to TMDB it is not a TV Show…
That is because it was added as a duplicate and has since been removed on TMDB, I reported the duplicates to Trakt. Here is the correct listing, a quick search turned it up…
Same issue as before, it was added as a duplicate and has since been removed on TMDB and I reported the duplicates to Trakt. Here is the correct listing…
Thanks, in the future I will report duplicates when I come across them. Just out of curiosity how does removing a dead TMDB film work. Does it update a users watched, rated, or added lists to replace the movie with the series or does it just remove it?
I can imagine seeing something like “So-in-So’s Top 1000 Movies” which after adjustments to remove movies has 980 films instead of 1000 films in the list. It also might cause someone to look at their ratings and say, why did my count drop by 20?
I’m a software engineer, so I know these are difficult problems to address. It’s even made harder when you don’t control the data you consume.
Justin said before that all data is merged/moved to the actual good entry.
That can mean that you’ll get double watches/data if you marked both the entries as watched for some reason.
i more agree with this. I mean what the heck and why some people are keep adding extra episodes to shows or changing clearling something that is correct. They are just trolls.
But of course mods on tvdb are awful (at least whenb i was trying years ago to contribute or report extra or wrong episodes), they ensist until they convince you that the earth is flat.
Just blocking, people who trying to help update / correct wrong info in the database, then saying one thing is duplicate but not agreeing another thing someone try point out is a edit,
Well tmdb dont wont the community to pitch in i have tried and i just got banned/blocked for Adding episodes series they ment they had has Movies etc. Tmdb moderators doesnt listen. To what we in the comunity says.
That was the reason for my question on why trakt changed from tvdb to tmdb. And what i have read and if i didnt missunderstood. Tvdb is not gonna be a suscribed for the basic user ie the community. Only for company who users the the API. So on that reason understand that trakt dont want and should not pay a huge fee to tvdb. Since its not they who provide all info its the community ie me and all of trakt users.
I’ve given up on TMDB. I’ve stopped updating my shows. They never respond to any of my issues. It’s been months. I’m not saying TVDB is perfect cuz it’s not and their mods can be annoying. But they’ve never ignored me for months.
That might be if you’re working on very niche items. like anime or foreign stuff. I know they got Brazilian, German mods at least. I think Spanish too. And someone who’s a bit familiar with like Chinese content.
Easy stuff like dupes are handled very fast but if you’re reporting more advanced stuff where they actually have to look into stuff that you even provide links to… it might take a hot minute.
like anime or foreign stuff. I know they got Brazilian, German mods at least. I think Spanish too. And someone who’s a bit familiar with like Chinese content.