This all seems interesting. So If I use this force labeling, the agent will pick up on it. While this is great for one-off situations, it’s not practical to rename an entire library, as you have pointed out. I will have to look for your new readme. I took a brief skim and couldn’t find the force section. Is it on the agent or scanner readme?
@ZeroQI said:
@rightcode You are correct it’s a TV Shows (Series) library, no other tool (even on emby/xbmc) to my knowledge even allow to have movies and series together and knowing plex doesn’t support that normally, i thought i did pretty well… Japanese anime has a more blurry line between movies and Series as ‘Detective Conan’ has 16 movies if i recall, which will not be showing as specials but their on entries in thetvdb.com but showing as specials on tvdb so if you keep absolute numbering you can show the serie with seasons in plex with a force id “Detective Conan [tvdb3-72454]” which will build seasons in plex that are not in the filename and leave the absolute number in each season so it’s easier to follow the 700+ episodes
名探偵コナン - TheTVDB.com
Other folders containing movies can use “[anidb2-xxxxx]” with the right anidb id for the movie and it will be mapped as the right special number magically, as long as it is mapped correctly in ScudLee’s GitHub AnimeLists xmls…
Understood.
i meant if it was a separate entry on thetvdb which it is not::
- Elfen Lied [anidb2-xxxx]\season (optional)\ep ##.ext
- Elfen Lied movie [anidb2-xxxx]\Elfen Lied movie.ext
That would show a unique serie as per tvdb with seasons and all even if the series follow anidb with a serie folder per season…
I need to learn how to do this: define your own season, or add an id file in the series folder, which will trigger your scanner (or agent). I’ll look for the new force section on your readme…
The scanner allow to show files in plex, but can alter and add seasons as per thetvdb or remove multiple seasons so it shows as one (appart from specials) and let keep the absolute episode number or reset at one each season…
If you don’t want to rename 700+ eps and would like to have season in plex so it is easier to scroll on a tablet you can control everything. you need an id file in serie folder or to add something at the end of the serie folder…
You can even define your own seasons for long series so it match story arcs and still have it work (tvdb4 mode) or just put “[01] arc xxx” folder inside you series folder and it will skip transparently…
I have re-written the read-me force id section, please check it…
In most instances you don’t need force id though…
This makes more sense. Thank you.
My agent pulls from all these websites (metadata sources) but it’s a single Plex agent…
I had to code everything, not just merelly let another agent do the job…
This is very cool. I’ll try it out.
if on the server settings you enable theme songs, it plays when you go into the series
You can especially see that in the new agent, you have the main init.py, common.py and everything else is a metadata source: AniDB, tvdb, fannart.tv, myanimelist, tmdb, ombd, …
It’s a wonderful upgrade. Great work! This one seems easier to deploy and get done what you want compared to the last version.
Am glad you like the new version, it took a lot of time shifting code around then fixing newly brought bugs… But fixed previously un-noticed bugs in the process and getting more metadata…
One question: In the new version you have specific control over the agent used for a given criterion. Which one is appropriate to adjust for cast? For example, Escaflowne cast from tvdb is much more detailed than anibd. I’d like the detailed cast. Also, it would be cool to include other ratings like rotten tomatoes.
Thanks for everything.
