# Network/Network Affiliate Tag During Pre-Conversation
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038
**Category:** Metadata and Renaming
**Tags:** hdhomerun, emby
**Created:** [August 16, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038 "2019-08-16T02:34:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@CoolCatDev](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/CoolCatDev)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/1 "2019-08-16T02:34:14Z")
Hi,
II’m using emby along with a HDHR Prime tuner. 'd like to use the channel name as a filter for conversion tasks, but MCEBuddy doesn’t seem to extract this info from the nfo file created by emby. In the attached log file, the network and network affiliate tags are always blank. In the nfo file created by emby, the network or channel is listed with the tag. Is there any way for MCEBuddy to use this tag to identify the channel?
The MCEBuddt log file and example nfo file are attached.
[logs.7z](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/6tIxbbfuKAR0YBzTVaTyU3sd1TY.7z) (11.8 KB)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/2 "2019-08-19T23:20:54Z")
Couple of things here, while MCEBuddy does support extracting tags from a NFO file you’ve attached there are a few things to consider:
1. If you’re using HDHR then it should be a TS file and HDHR embeds the metadata into the TS file which is then extracted by MCEBuddy
2. For the NFO file to work, the name of the file should be the same as the name of the recording with a nfo extension and the `tvshow.nfo` supplements that file (which is why it isn’t picking it up). So who’s generating this NFO file?
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### Author:  [@CoolCatDev](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/CoolCatDev)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/3 "2019-08-22T23:10:17Z")
Thanks for getting back to me. HDHR is the tuner. I use, Emby for the DVR, so that’s what’s creating the TS file and NFO file. I don’t see a setting in Emvy to change how the NFO file is named.
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### Author:  [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/4 "2019-09-02T14:12:45Z")
I would have MCEBuddy create the NFO file along with the output file because they will have the same name (just different extensions), and have Emby use the NFO file created by MCEBuddy instead of the other way around.
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### Author:  [@CoolCatDev](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/CoolCatDev)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/5 "2019-10-07T00:36:51Z")
I recorded several shows with the HDHR DVR to see if that makes a difference but is it does not. For example, in the attached log starting on line 87942 for the show Ask This Old House the channel affiliate and channel name are extracted from the silicon dust tags. The network/channel filter match doesn’t work because the \>network\< field is blank when the match is done. Any ideas?
[mcebuddy.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/eodZwIf3h77SM0bWs6bJj564T1K.log) (8.4 MB)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/6 "2019-10-17T17:10:11Z")
Can you install the latest 2.5.1 beta and try it out, according to what I see in the logs it should fine with the latest build (we added support for the new HDHR metadata format a few weeks ago).
If it’s still happening can you upload the original HDHR recording and log file to the mcebuddy server.
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/7 "2019-11-03T00:37:36Z")
Try today’s build, we found a bug in processing the HDHR metadata extraction. Today’s build should fix it.
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### Author:  [@CoolCatDev](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/CoolCatDev)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/8 "2019-11-15T02:37:36Z")
Thanks for working on this. I tried using 2.5 beta 2. It looks like the channel name is being picked up, But the filter by channel name doesn’t work. I tested using the conversion task “tv show convert no comskip test”, and the recording Life From Above. The channel name for the recording is WNETDT, which should have been picked up by the filter. Recording and log - [https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar9rDNtrTCxMhYYgnpRM4RtrHS0fGw?e=XIClPo](https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar9rDNtrTCxMhYYgnpRM4RtrHS0fGw?e=XIClPo)
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### Author:  [@RBoy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/network-network-affiliate-tag-during-pre-conversation/3038/9 "2019-11-15T14:57:31Z")
Thanks for the sample, your HDHR metadata is great and it’s picked up by MCEBuddy also just fine:
> → Extracted SiliconDust tags:
> Title: Life From Above
> SubTitle: Changing Planet
> Description: Cameras in space show Earth to be a changing, fragile planet, with disappearing forests and melting glaciers.
> **Network: WNETDT**
> Network Affiliate: PBS
> Parental Rating:
> Media Credits:
> Genres:
> Season: 1
> Episode: 4
> Banner:
> Banner URL:
> IMDB Id:
> MovieDB Id:
> TVDB Id:
> Is Movie: False
> Is Sports: False
> OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2019-11-13T00:00:00
> RecordedDateTime: 2019-11-14T02:59:30
However, there’s a _NFO_ file lying along with your HDHR mpg file which has different metadata from what’s in your MPG file which is causing the confusion as you can see it’s changing the Network from _WNETDT_ to _Cola films_
> Cola films
Causing it to change a lot of the metadata to:
> INFORMATION\> 2019-11-15T09:52:21 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata → Extracting NFO Tags
> 2019-11-15T09:52:21 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata → Extracting Kodi/XMBC Episode NFO metadata
> 2019-11-15T09:52:21 MCEBuddy.MetaData.FileExtractMetadata → Successfully extracted Kodi/XBMC NFO Movie metadata
> 2019-11-15T09:53:33 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Video Tags extracted →
> **Title: Life After Death from Above 1979**
> SubTitle: Changing Planet
> **Description: Death. Lives.**
> **Network: Cola films**
> Network Affiliate: PBS
> Parental Rating: UNRATED
> Media Credits: Sebastien Grainger;Jesse F. Keeler
> Genres: Documentary,Drama,Music
> Season: 1
> Episode: 4
> Banner:
> Banner URL:
> IMDB Id: tt3004624
> MovieDB Id:
> TVDB Id:
> Is Movie: True
> Is Sports: False
> OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2014-10-07T00:00:00
> RecordedDateTime: 2019-11-14T02:59:30
Delete that NFO file it should work fine.