Just wanted to post here so the new system would keep it in my list of conversations. Love this plugin.
Update
I havenāt posted here in a long time as Iāve been working on other projects. Iām just here to say that I will be continuing to maintain the code to ensure itās working. As for adding any additional code, I will not be doing that. Besides, I canāt think of what else to add. If I get some time Iāll check troydanaās post about certain episodes not loading.
I continue to test this plug-in on new versions of PMS and adding courses to my library daily to ensure things work.
Happy 4th of July to everyone!
Best, bubonic
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Thanks @tramp78!
@bubonic314 I honestsly canāt think of anything new that I would like it to do. If you can fix that issue with the missing episode information, that would be cool, but to be honest, just grabbing the descriptions and cover art of the course itself is as much as I was doing manually before this came along. Anything above and beyond that is just gravy.
Whatās your favorite course that youāve watched so far? And what course are you watching, if any, right now?
I really enjoyed:
Game People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business & Beyond
Scott P. Stevens of the above mentioned course was by far my favorite lecturer thus far. Humorous, witty, clear and concise. Though I must be honest, Iām a mathematician so I may be biased.
My second favorite course thus far is
Great Philosophical Debate: Free Will & Determinism.
Right now I am currently watching
European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914
I try to watch one lecture a day, except on weekends. I also take notes into a journal so I can reference them. I try to read the companions on my tablet when time permits for each lecture, though Iām not doing that now for my present course.
I have burned my way through many of the music lectures. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music is wonderful.
Other courses I liked
Law School for Everyone
Experiencing America a Smithsonian Tour Through History (what Iām goign through now)
English Grammar Boot Camp
How Great Science Fiction Works
History of the English Language, 2nd Edition
Understanding Linguistics the Science of Language
Philosophy of Religion
Historical Jesus
Experiencing Hubble Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe
How Colors Affect You What Science Reveals
Medical Myths Lies and Half Truths What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us
My Favorite Universe
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I might be missing something, but quite a few courses are failing for me. For example, āThe Philosopherās Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Roomā.
In the logs, it isnāt finding the course as expected. INFO (__init__:713) - CourseURL http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-philosophers-toolkit-how-to-be-the-most-rational-person-in-any-room.html
Is this an issue with TGC vs. TGCPlus URLs? For example, this URL works.
https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/the-philosophers-toolkit-how-to-be-the-most-rational-person-in-any-room
Initially I figured the colon or apostrophe were creating problems (and the apostrophe doesnāt help, but can be corrected). Maybe Iām just not naming the files quite right. Can somebody point out how this format could cause problems?
../The Philosopher's Toolkit How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room/Season 1/The Philosopher's Toolkit How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room - s01e01 - How We Think and How to Think Better.mp4
I imagine itās a stupid issue Iām missing. Any help is much appreciated.
Never mind. I forgot to install dryscrape when converting to docker containers. Knew itād be something stupid I did.
Thanks again for the plugin, very awesome!
So I am having what is probably a very simple problemā¦but I cannot for the life of me figure out what Iām doing incorrectly. I have followed the naming scheme (as far as I can tell) to the letterā¦but Iām not able to get any of the lectures that I have to show up. Any that is except for āThe Everyday Guide to Spirits and Cocktails Tastes and Traditionsāā¦maybe I should take the hint.
I have the directory structure as follows on my Plex:
/Media/LECTURES/A Childrens Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales
And the files are named:
A Childrenās Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales (TGC2411) SE18E01 - How the Camel Got His Hump - Pourquoi Tales.m4v
I donāt see what Iām missing..and itās probably obvious to everyone else. Itās just weird that it works fine for the one lecture but not for any of the others.
Here are some screenshots:
Can anyone tell me what Iām doing incorrectly?
Here is my folder structure
TTC\Literature & English Language\Literature\A Childrenās Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales (TGC2411)
Files are named:
S01E01 - Sleeping Beauty - Once Upon a Time
S01E02 - Beauty and the Beast I - the Sleeping Prince
Put the (TGC####) in the folder name. It works there.
Make sure the folder text is copied from the webpage on the website. It works better for some reason although having the (TGC###) cancorrect that.
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Thanks for the help. I realized I was putting a @#$!@#$-ing āEā under the Season tagā¦Also, I wasnāt putting the TGC#### in the folder name.
So frustratingly dumb, I wasted several hours of my Saturdayā¦ha haā¦but itās working great now. A HUGE thanks to bubonic314 !!!
Update TGCrename2.0.sh for *nix users
Iāve updated the TGCrename script to a 2.0 version (very fancy!). It now handles a bulkfile list of directories containing lectures. Now you donāt have to copy all the files to each directory every time. Simply create a text file of your lecture directories and follow the steps in the README.md on the github page.
Found here:
TGCremame
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Iāve found two courses recently that are having issues.
The first, https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-build-a-thriving-workplace-a-leaders-guide.html
Pulls in the metadata for course title and the full description. It misses the poster, and all my episodes are changed to the name of the date I downloaded the files. The genre also seems to just pull the title in.
The second, https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-art-of-investing-lessons-from-historys-greatest-traders.html
Pulls in the title for both the course and the lectures, but does not pull in the descriptions at all, nor the poster.
Iāve been following some of the other comments trying to troubleshoot, but no avail. I really appreciate how much easier this plugin has made organizing my library, so kudos to any help you can provide in getting these courses straightened out.
What are the folders named that have those lectures?
These are mine
I dont have the first one but it should be How to:
Build a Thriving Workplace A Leaderās Guide (TGC9648)
The Art of Investing Lessons from Historys Greatest Traders (TGC5000)
I have updated them to match how you have them, and no changes.
Some previous modifications I have tried are adding the (TGC####) into the folder name, typically I only rename the video files to have that.
In the past, Iāve had no problems replacing the colon in the titles with a " - ", although I have now removed it for these two specific courses. For my other courses, that hasnāt caused issue.
Another odd behaviour Iāve noticed is for the Thriving Workplace course, the episode titles are now updated to todayās date. So where yesterday they were all named 2018-09-14, today they are all 2018-09-15.
How are you naming the files? I seldom put a name on the file, just
S01E01 - description
S01E02 - description
Itās odd since the one that I have works fine. I would try removing it, re-scan the library, then put it back and rescan it. Or unmatch it and match it again.
Hereās an example of my typical formatting. This particular course has no problems:
/Great Courses/Art of Critical Decision Making (TGC5932)/(TGC5932) S01E01_ArtCriticalDecisionMaking.m4v
Hereās from the one that pulls title data, but no descriptions:
/Great Courses/The Art of Investing Lessons from Historys Greatest Traders (TGC5000)/(TGC5000)_S01E01_ArtOfInvesting.m4v
(I believe I have just taken out the apostrophe, so Iāve tried it both with and without on āhistoryāsā
This course pulls the main course description, but nothing for the individual episodes, itās also a new course released recently:
/Great Courses/How to Build a Thriving Workplace A Leaderās Guide (TGC9648)/(TGC9648)_S01E01_ThrivingWorkplace.m4v
I do have approximately 50 courses on my plex now, so Iāve generally been able to resolve all my mis-naming practices by now. These last two courses are the first problems Iāve had since last fall. Iāve added approximately 10 courses this year alone.
I donāt put anything before the episode numbers. Just:
S01E01 - Course name and episode number.
Anything after the course number is ignored unless it ends with āPt1ā or āPt2ā
I donāt use underscores because I like to stick to what Plex suggests.
The (TGC1234) goes after the course name in the folder but you can also leave it off and it may work better.
You might also try to pull the folder out, rescan, then put it back or maybe go the unmatch route.
The one you have that doesnāt work isnāt one I have so I canāt test it but I may play around with renaming some dummy files and see what happens.
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One other thing you can try, the plugin looks for what the website calls the course. It also can look at the URL of the page the course is on and match the end of that. So try renaming the folder to
the-art-of-investing-lessons-from-historys-greatest-traders
I tried it and it works.
Iāve tried renaming the folders, but doesnāt appear to make a difference.
Iāve also repeatedly tried āfix matchā for both the stated courses and it finds the appropriate class there. Iāve tried forcing a refresh of the metadata as well.
