Metadata agents for exported XBMC library

[gboudreau]

I've done as you describe, but I only get the following:

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This is fine. This is what appears in the web UI for me too. The real UI (in OS X at least) shows more, but what you have is fine.

[gboudreau]

For the good news, I can see that the remote URLs for posters & fanarts are present in PMS but the images are not processed (I mean I have to select each Plex logo to display the image).

Looks like the preview URL is missing, or bad.
I added log lines for the remote posters & fanarts found in a nfo.

"Found (remote) poster at: previewUrl > full artwork url"

Look for that in the logs to find the preview URLs the plugin finds, and test it in your browser, to make sure it works.

For the bad news, your metadata agent doesn't load the poster.tbn and fanart.jpg by default. So I see a poster and fanart in MediaManager but not the good ones. Probably one of the remote URLs.

I guess that when the metadata agent added the remote URLs for poster and fanart, it deleted the original images.

The challenge here will be to add the poster.tbn (as the default image) and the remote URLs at the same time. Same for fanart.jpg.

The local artworks were imported fine, but they appeared after the remote artworks, because they were added to the list before.......
Anyway, I now load the local files after the remote URLs, and the default posters & fanarts displayed in Plex are now the local files.
Re-download the latest zip to get that change.

[mitch969]

The local artworks were imported fine, but they appeared after the remote artworks, because they were added to the list before.......
Anyway, I now load the local files after the remote URLs, and the default posters & fanarts displayed in Plex are now the local files.
Re-download the latest zip to get that change.

I tested the latest zip. It is exactly the same as before, I don't have the local files as default (still the remote URLs).

[gwarkyle]

That's why I said "I didn't add anything for the seasons thumbs."
Season artworks/thumbs will NOT be imported right now.
Maybe if you find the documentation where it says where season thumbs are loaded from in XBMC, I might write something when I have some free time.

Sorry about that. I don't know why I didn't comprehend that post.

According to the XBMC wiki, the season pulls its "thumbnail" from the root of the season folder and looks at a file called seasonxx.tbn (with xx being a season number). I don't use XBMC myself. I use Media Center Master to get my metadata for the Media Browser plugin in Windows Media Center. Right now I have a folder.jpg in the season folder which is how I would prefer to have the season folder pull its image. I have found conflicting info that says this method should also work in XBMC. Either method would work for me though, if you get some spare time to code this. Thank you much.

[gboudreau]

I tested the latest zip. It is exactly the same as before, I don't have the local files as default (still the remote URLs).

Sorry it doesn't work for you.
I tested by installing the newest zip, restating PMS, creating a new section, and when before I had one of the remote artwork as default, it now shows the local artworks.

Anyone else experiences this problem (remote artworks used as default instead of local files) with the latest version?

Also, did you check the logs to see what URLs appear for your remote artworks, to understand why the previews are missing?

[mitch969]

I am sure that the issue is still present because I reinstalled PMS, installed the latest version and tested.



Guillaume, if you have enabled Local Media Assets (Movies), you won’t see the issue.

[bing281]

How do you get this to work for television season posters?

[gboudreau]

How do you get this to work for television season posters?

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/38402-metadata-agents-for-exported-xbmc-library/page__view__findpost__p__256183

[bing281]

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/38402-metadata-agents-for-exported-xbmc-library/page__view__findpost__p__256183

So basically it doesn't work?

[gboudreau]

I am sure that the issue is still present because I reinstalled PMS, installed the latest version and tested.

Guillaume, if you have enabled Local Media Assets (Movies), you won't see the issue.

OK, thanks.
I disabled the remote artworks in Github just now, since this will cause more headaches for most users.
If anyone finds a solution, let me know.

[psycik]

So basically it doesn't work?

No, no implemented, there is a difference.

[luthien]

is there any way to implent it? i got the season posters in the root folder named seasonxx.tbn.



i wouldn’t mind a quick and dirty solution

[gboudreau]

is there any way to implent it? i got the season posters in the root folder named seasonxx.tbn.

It's possible, but not yet done.
Since the thing is open-source, I'll be happy to merge any pull request received on Github that would add this feature.
And for people without (Python) know-how, you can always pay someone to do what you want for you...
vworker.com
peopleperhour.com
freelancer.com
etc.

[myhtpc]

Hi Guillaume,



after several weeks offline, I started using your importer - thanks for developing this XBMC Import.

As I want to filter my content for Kids / non Kids content, I have updated all my 500 mpaa ratings in XBMC. I now have found, that this will not get imported.



In my nfo file, there is a line:

<mpaa>ab 16 Jahren</mpaa><br />

it seems that this will not be stored in the info.xml file:

<br />
<content_rating></content_rating>

interestingly the log-file says:

2012-05-04 12:03:30,000 (db0) :  INFO (core:324) - Content Rating: ab 16 Jahren

Do you have any idea what goes wrong?

[myhtpc]

Hi Guillaume,



don’t you have any idea what’s going wrong with my content_ratings?



All the Best



myhtpc

[gboudreau]

Hi Guillaume,

don't you have any idea what's going wrong with my content_ratings?

All the Best

myhtpc

I quickly looked at the code, and couldn't find a reason for it not to work.
I didn't have time to further test this. It will stay on my stack until I do have time.

[gboudreau]

And I just merged the first other-than-me contribution through Github!

https://github.com/gboudreau/XBMC-TVShows-Metadata-Agent-for-Plex/pull/1



j0nathan33 made the following changes, which are now available in the official Github repo, and thus included in the download links in the 1st post:

• fix bug support year and add search year
  
• fix bug and add banner for season
  
• Add banner for special season
  
• fix bug for multi show with the same show
  
  
  
  Thanks j0nathan33!

[gboudreau]

Hi Guillaume,

after several weeks offline, I started using your importer - thanks for developing this XBMC Import.
As I want to filter my content for Kids / non Kids content, I have updated all my 500 mpaa ratings in XBMC. I now have found, that this will not get imported.

In my nfo file, there is a line:

<mpaa>ab 16 Jahren</mpaa><br />

it seems that this will not be stored in the info.xml file:

<br />
<content_rating></content_rating>

interestingly the log-file says:

2012-05-04 12:03:30,000 (db0) :  INFO (core:324) - Content Rating: ab 16 Jahren

Do you have any idea what goes wrong?

I tried here, and it seems to work fine.

My NFO has:

<mpaa>Rated R</mpaa>

And the log said:

2012-05-12 14:17:55,725 (-4fa6b000) :  INFO (__init__:229) - Content Rating: Rated R

And the Manager UI shows the same thing:

http://f.cl.ly/items/1W1x302l36003Q0M2r35/Screen%20Shot%202012-05-12%20at%2014.19.24%20.png

I also tried changing my nfo to:

<mpaa>ab 16 Jahren</mpaa>

I hit Cmd-R in the Manager UI, and got that same value in the metadata:

http://f.cl.ly/items/1m2I3I2D1T2H0g3O111d/Screen%20Shot%202012-05-12%20at%2014.26.02%20.png

[myhtpc]

Hi Guillaume,



thanks for your efforts. It seems, that the problem was in the DataBase.

My movie section was tagged already by the old scrapper and it seems, that overwriting it with your scanner didn’t work out stable enough (some did, some not).



I have now deleted the whole section, building up the same directly with your scanner and - it worked



Thanks again



myhtpc

[Andrew_Kuo]

Hi Guillaume and all

Really appreciate for your effort and kind to develop good stuff like this for all Plex users.

I am fresh for plex from Taiwan and have my films metadata in Chinese, plex server host on a synology DS412+ by official package released from package center in 0.9.5.3.



I have my each movie metadata in [ChineseMovieName]EnglishMovieName(Year).nfo format with fanart.jpg & folder.jpg under each movie folder.



When I turned the agent to be nfo importer, it looks nothing scrapped from local NFO file even drawings.

But when I turned the agent to be any online scrapper, it is working but all in English which my parents do not understand.



Could you please kindly help to figure out any action I can do with this trouble? Thanks.



PS. My NFO file is not directly exported from XBMC but created by another utility which scrap chinese content for users in Taiwan. These NFO files works for XBMC very well.