Howdy, sorry for the radio silence, had annoying internet issues this past weekend (damn Comcast!)
I had notices the double directory with TGC.bundle, and had tried moving it, to no avail. I will note, however, in response to your earlier post, I don’t have a TODO directory (I do have TODO.md).
I’m running Ubuntu Server 16.04, PMS 1.9.4.4325 (as of today), still no joy.
@cthog Odd. Try looking at the logs. That is, see if
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/PMS Plugin Logs/com.plexapp.agents.tgc.log
exists and if it does what does it print out. This should give you some output as to whether or not the agent is terminating somewhere. If that file doesn’t exist or doesn’t show an error. Look at
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.log
and search for “TGC.bundle” and see or post what it says there. We’ll try to get you up and running.
Quick note -
When adding
Learning Statistics Concepts and Applications in R (TGC1480)
The 11th lecture just refuses to show.
S01E11 - Hypothesis Testing 1 Sample
If that is the only lecture in the folder it doean’t see it and won’t add teh lecture. As you ass other lectures it sees them. Once all are there it returns all BUT that one.
Rename it to S01E11.m4v and it will show up
That worked. Thanks. Must have thought it was a two part episode or something and bundled it into one.
Any ideas on how to proceed with courses not listed anymore? TGC640 – Heroes, Heroines and the Wisdom of Myth
@GoingGaGa I have a database that I believe includes metadata for out of print courses. My goal is to put this metadata on a server and when the agent encounters a course number that is of an out of print course it will query the server for the data as it does thegreatcourses.com. This is still in development. As for now, we just have to deal with blanks in PLEX for those courses.
thank you @bubonic314
Out of curiosity, does anyone have any of these old out of print lectures?
GWR, 1st Ed.: Confucius, the Tao, the Ancestors and the Buddha: The Religions of China
Ideas in Western Culture: The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
Modern Look at Greek Civilization
Shakespeare and the Varieties of Human Experience
to a lesser degree:
GWR, 1st Ed.: God and God’s People: The Religion of Judaism
GWR, 1st Ed.: God and His Prophet: The Religion of Islam
GWR, 1st Ed.: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh: The Religions of India
All the other OOP lectures I either have or have the replacement lectures. Those last three seem to have replacements. The top four, I don’t see specific replacements.
thank you for creating this, I have probably 30 of these courses. This will help immensely
There are two OOP versions of Modern Look at Greek Civilization. One from 1991 (8 lectures) and one from 1995 (16L). Look at the in-print Ancient Greek Civilization for overlap. Also the Ideas in Western Culture series is largely overlapped with Great Minds of Western Civilization. Audio of everything has floated around on sharing sites for a decade now. Video is gettable for all of them as well. There are 101 VHS exclusive sets and they cycle in and out of availability on ebay. United States Literary History and the unreleased Palestine course are the only video sets that basically don’t exist. I really enjoy the 1st ed of GWR, especially the Christianity portion by Robert Oden. He’;s great in general and in the first lecture gives a very nice introduction to the start of the teaching company.
I’m on sabbatical next semester and will have more time for my various projects. Hence, I plan on figuring out the solution to OOP courses and the metadata for them. Most likely I will be adding support for the XMBC agent, so if you have nfo files and cover/poster art it will pull them in. It’s a really easy addition, I just want to beta test it before I push it to the git repository.
Also, I plan on breaking ground on a TGCAudio.bundle which will provide metadata retrieval for the audio lectures from TGC. This is long overdue and I’ve received numerous requests here and elsewhere for this support. It will be a separate project/agent, but a lot of the code should be the same. I have references on how to populate the audio metadata objects in the PLEX suite, so it shouldn’t be too daunting and should be completed relatively soon from the ground breaking; assuming I don’t run into too many difficulties.
That said, I hope everyone has enjoyed TGC.bundle this year.
Happy Holidays to all!
Thanks Sir!
What would it take to use the RENAME script to change the names of the files in a list of 20 or so course folders?
Thanks so much for this!
I believe you said that you had a script to rename files, although I’ve been using advancedrenamer.com/ (free on Windows) with the following format:
You can rename all of your courses at once as long as you’ve named the directories correctly, there are no extra files (guidebooks, extra clips) and the lectures are ordered to begin with. I also added the directory containing all of my courses to PMS, not individual directories, which seems to work fine, except I find myself refreshing the library a few times. A small fraction of the lectures aren’t fully matched, but it’s no big deal.
@“offolter@gmail.com” said:
What would it take to use the RENAME script to change the names of the files in a list of 20 or so course folders?
Sorry for the delayed response. That’s a good option to add. I’ll code an option to specify a filename that contains the absolute directory paths of the lectures and it’ll batch process them. It will still require input on the user to ensure the correct course is matched for renaming. I think prompting the user for all the correct course matching first then processing everything would be the way to go. Give me some time and I’ll add this in. I currently bought a new laptop and had to move everything over and I believe my Eclipse set-up is all kosher now.
@bubonic314 – I want to thank you for making this agent. Great work!
I’ve found a bug on the TGC.bundle
I am trying to use it with TGCRenamer to rename the TGC Fall and Rise of China.
While filling the metadata on Plex, I have noticed that the last five episodes were not renamed.
I look into it and noticed that some episodes on the TGC site have some apostrophes at the beginning and end of their names, i.e. “Resist Japan!” and precisely those episodes were skipped while being recognized by Plex causing a lot of mismatches and the last five episodes left unrecognized.
Good catch. Same here. It doesn’t matter what you name the files either. I tried just changing them to S01E01 S01E02 with nothing else that that didn’t help. There is something in the scrape that doesn’t see those lectures.
I’ll add, this has happened to a number of courses in my library (hint: view individual episodes and sort by title; the unnamed ones will be at the top). These are:
The other 600 lectures in my library are fine in this regard. One other thing, the agent scrapes the wrong poster for the course “The Everyday Gourmet: The Joy of Mediterranean Cooking” because there is another image where the poster usually is in the source (“free bonus…” something). If you want to fix it manually, you can go to the course page, view source, search “800x”, click on the 11th result. Download, crop, and insert manually in Plex. As far as I know, this is the only course for which this problem occurs. Everything else has loaded correctly, many thanks for the agent.
