Hi guys, my wife is a big workout at home buff. She buys the home workout DVDs from places like beachbody.com like P90X and TurboJam. I have taken all of her workout dvd sets and ripped and encoded them for plex. The most logical way I can think of to organize this information is as TV Shows and it works great but thetvdb.org bans all entries for these type of programs. As a result plex mistakenly gives me incorrect matches for TV shows and I cant manually specify any artwork. Its pretty annoying. Before Plex I was using mymovies with windows media center and it did do a much better job at gathering metadata for these workout programs (it sucked in all other areas) so I know there has to be a database out there somewhere. Can anyone point me at a possible metadata agent that I could use with the tv shows section and could answer my prayers? Any suggestions are welcomed
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I am working on a metadata agent that should be able to help you with this. We plan on launching in the next couple of months or so.
+1 more here
I've reviewed the code for the current agents, and they try to support too many naming approaches, IMHO. It uses a tokenizer akin to a CVS-style merge. Ew. As a result, the agent can get confused on certain formats, and it has poor support for special (e.g. +, &, etc.) characters. Again, I go with the KISS approach, and I think the approach should use one or two strict formats, no variances. But hey, that's me.
Add me to your notification list. If you need experienced help/testing (I've spoken at Python conferences before, so I know the environment), let me know.
Just as an aside, are you going with a Name/Name - # - Title approach? As in P90X/P90X - 01 - Chest and Back.m4v? Or something different? The UI favors episodic shows/videos to include the "season" construct. Frankly, it's a PITA, since many things do not need the superfluous season element. Just show and episode. A hybrid of the movie and the TV show. It's almost as though we need to add a 5th type of display option--TV Shows, Movies, Music, Photos...and Videos. Sorry, ADD meds have not kicked in. So I will close my figurative mouth now :-)
Hey Tizzy,
Our service is now live at http://thevideosdb.com if you’d like to check it out. We basically let you name your files however you want, but for now, we do need to support the S##E## format because that’s what Plex recognizes and requires to pull in the information correctly.
The more users we can get on the service, the more changes we can demand media players to change. I do agree that season numbers is some times redundant, but unfortunately it’s the name of the game for now.
Once you’re on the service, let me know if there’s anything we can do to make your experience better. We’re trying to make this metadata thing as simple and easy to use as possible - starting with the current solution.
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but (1) is this still working and (2) is their a bundle to add it in?
Hey Tizzy,
Our service is now live at http://thevideosdb.com if you'd like to check it out. We basically let you name your files however you want, but for now, we do need to support the S##E## format because that's what Plex recognizes and requires to pull in the information correctly.
The more users we can get on the service, the more changes we can demand media players to change. I do agree that season numbers is some times redundant, but unfortunately it's the name of the game for now.
Once you're on the service, let me know if there's anything we can do to make your experience better. We're trying to make this metadata thing as simple and easy to use as possible - starting with the current solution.
Is this still good? How do you add the agent?
do we know if this is still a work in progress ? i am looking for an agent to do this as well.
Looks like the site is dead does anyone have an agent to use?
Looks like this is dead. It would be nice, although I have already customized my Home Video library. A lot of manually work but nice when you're done!
I’m assuming there are no updates with this? Added a few things to thetvdb.com and subsequently they got deleted for not being TV shows. Sad they won’t allow this.
Thetvdb.com doesn’t do sports/fitness, normal they would erase. You should have added to https://www.themoviedb.org/ which unlike the name states does manage series since some time, and have series agent in plex.
A quick search for “Pilates” show 4 TV Shows and 17 Movies, for example…
@ZeroQI said:
Thetvdb.com doesn’t do sports/fitness, normal they would erase. You should have added to https://www.themoviedb.org/ which unlike the name states does manage series since some time, and have series agent in plex.A quick search for “Pilates” show 4 TV Shows and 17 Movies, for example…
How would we know the naming scheme?
Movie library: Title movie/Title movie (year).ext
Serie library: Title serie/Title serie s01e01.ext
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200381023-Naming-Movie-files
I am familiar with the normal naming scheme but my question is for the fitness/exercise based videos, which are not normally considered normal TV shows and movies. For example, I may consider the P90x intro video to be S01E01 but this may not be the way it was submitted.
You pick your metadata source and stick to it. Review guidelines and you can even add the serie or movies to the given source.
https://www.themoviedb.org/search/movie?query=P90x says they are all movies, so label as such.
https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/editing/television says: “Here on TMDb, we assume the original or “first” air date for all episodes. It is assumed that the first air date of the original broadcast should be used. TV series and season air dates are assumed from their first season and first episodes respectively. This means that at least one season and one episode must exist.”
In other words, it need to pass on TV on a scheduled way to be a TV serie, otherwise they are separate movies (direct to video mostly). They can be in a collection though. If it shows up in the TV shows part, use the episode numbering there.
I am currently struggling with this as well. My first attempt was a fully manual, Home Videos Library. I recently changed my file structure and decided to try to automate the process. I first tried a Shows Library, but using TheMovieDB as the metadata source, but it did not populate anything. I then tried a Movies Library, again with TheMovieDB as the metadata source. I was hoping that turning on the collection grouping would simulate a shows interface, but it failed badly and just assigned random movie names to the individual files.
If there is something I am missing, please let me know.
You are missing exemples, more preciselly filenames and the links to themoviedb page corresponding and moviedb agent log.
Convention: MovieDB exact title (year) [comment or crap].ext
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