For intro and credit markers, it would be nice if there was consistency on what level you can trigger analysis manually.
Like many, I have a big library that I would like markers generated for. Rather than wait for scheduled tasks to do my entire library, I’d like to trigger some movies/shows to analyze sooner. Movies are simple - just select and analyze which ones you want done immediately.
This is really only an annoyance for TV shows. For intro detection, it seems that only Season-level analysis will trigger detection. For credits, only episode-level analysis triggers it. It would be great if (maybe even as an option) that triggering analysis of a whole show will trigger that show for both intro and credit detection immediately.
I understand why it was probably configured this way…intro looks at the sonic analysis of a whole season, and credits are single-video-specific, but for the end user that doesn’t necessarily understand that distinction, it makes more sense for them to act the same.
I agree. I read the support article linked above this very forum, and it gives no indication that epiodes must be analyzed on a per-episode basis. The accompanying image even seems to indicate that they are doing it on the season-level, which does not work. In fact, I check a bunch of UI’s, and I cannot tell which one they used for the screenshots.
It makes no sense to me that “Analyze” no matter which level you do it on will not do the same behavior. Heck, you can “Analyze” on the library level. For what good that will do for you…
Off-topic: I did find a bug related to using the “Categories” selection at the top of libraries, but it seems minor enough I doubt I’ll point it out.
I can sort of understand why they didn’t enable triggering credits detection at a broader level using Analyze, since that task would [probably] have to run to completion and could, if triggered at the library level, run for a very long time, impacting system performance. Better to run that task in a time-bounded manner (e.g., as scheduled maintenance task).
That said, allowing it to be used to analyze at the TV show season level seems like a decent compromise.
