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No solution but I have the same issue with a lot of movies marked as from the year 1906. All the others seem to be OK but can tell for sure. Makes no difference using TMDB or Universal Scraper and the only fix is manually refreshing each movie impacted.
Hope there is a fix
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I just noticed the same problem. Mine either have the correct date or 1906. Refresh fixes the problem.
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Same problem here, anyone found a solution?
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I'm not sure if it is a bug or not, but it seems like it.
I have gotten a few of these, and for me it seems to be related to movies that have accompanying .nfo files which Kodi can use before scraping websites.
It looks like I get 'year'->1969 and 'premiered'->1969-12-31 if Kodi can't parse the 'premiered' tag in the file into a proper date. Even if the 'year' tag is correct.
This:
<movie>
<year>2016</year>
<premiered>6 Jan 2017</premiered>
</movie>
gives me the wrong data. Year -> 1969, Premiered -> 1969-12-31
This:
<movie>
<year>2016</year>
<premiered>2017-01-06</premiered>
</movie>
gives me the wrong year. Year -> 2017, Premiered -> 2017-01-06
This:
<movie>
<year>2016</year>
</movie>
gives me the correct year, and naturally no premiere date.
Why Kodi would use 'premiered' info for the year at all, if the 'year' tag is present, I have no idea. For many movies, the premiered date would not be the same as the year.
A workaround could be to remove the premiered tag or only have an imdb url in the nfo file to force an online lookup.
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I noticed the same problem. I'll try removing the Premier tag and see what happens.
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Confirm the conclusion on Premier Date. The movies that are tagged with the incorrect year all had premier dates in the nfo file.
My fix was to delete all nfo's (good and bad) and rescan from scratch. That seemed the best way to fix 300+ incorrectly tagged movies.
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I have had this same issue. I do not know if it is completely connected to nfo files because I've tried a folders that contained only a video file. For me, I've only had issues with movies from 1900 and before, they are all listed as 1969.
I have not had an issue with 1906 movies or anything in between.
I really think this is worth looking into, seems to be a persistent problem, I haven't had a single movie from the year 1900 loaded properly.
Does anyone have any new or useful information?
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What version of kodi did you use to get the correct years without premier when you rescanned?
Sent from my SM-N910W8
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Jelf10
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Also have had this problem.
I used to use couchpotato to fetch the metadata for kodi until they started showing as 1969. Turned it off and just let the universal scraper do its job and it's been ok since.
So not sure if it's kodi that's at fault.