Thanks for exanding on what needs addressing. I’ll take a first pass at it. What I don’t get in the first, we’ll get in the subsequent
With respect to features which worked, helping me collect and prepare the issue for engineering is all I ask for. The burden on me, which is where I ask everyone to help:
Simple descriptive title (a few words) (e.g. Titles with umlaut characters in name not recognized) This was the UTF-8 issue
An expected behavior
As observed behavior
Steps To Reproduce
This includes screen shots and logs (ZIP file logs from Settings - Server - Help - Download Logs help me the most. I’ll isolate further from there and cut/paste into the actual issue but back reference to the thread for the devs
Regarding the example of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, I present to you, as I have them, names included (as prepared by FileBot). No NFO files were needed. PMS scanned correctly the first time and every time since I’ve had to rebuild the library. I only have 24/1.5 Mbps service but can rebuild the entire 700+ film library in under an hour with all metadata and no lost titles.
Here are the “Hallows” as FileBot named them.
[chuck@lizum movies2.108]$ ll *Hallows*
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010):
total 18841528
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck users 4096 Jul 16 2015 ./
drwxr-xr-x 225 chuck users 12288 Jan 20 00:02 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck users 19293700502 Mar 16 2016 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010).mkv
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011):
total 17068852
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck users 4096 Jul 16 2015 ./
drwxr-xr-x 225 chuck users 12288 Jan 20 00:02 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck users 17478480166 Mar 16 2016 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011).mkv
[chuck@lizum movies2.109]$
Here is the entire series in the library.
Searching Good Time Reunion at Devil's Lake stops finding possible matches as a get to “Good Time” on IMDB. Double checking TVDB, yields no results either. Can you provide me with additional information to confirm I have the title and year? What is the source of the video?
Searching Good Time Reunion at Devil's Lake stops finding possible matches as a get to “Good Time” on IMDB. Double checking TVDB, yields no results either. Can you provide me with additional information to confirm I have the title and year? What is the source of the video?
ChuckPa
Thank You for your prompt response!
I know…
Like I mentioned the above will not scrape because is a privately sold folk reunion done by the Kingston Trio in 1982(see TOM DOOLEYS MERCANTILE). Much like workout dvds, local production videos there are some things that due to lack of popularity or production some things won’t scape. My only solution is to manually edit the data. Like too many other items.
At the time I added it the made for tv movie “Frog” from 1987 didn’t scape, it may now. Either way I don’t really care for Plex deciding what’s correct based on what it can find automatically.
Are we only allowed to put pre-approved media in our libraries? If so I might as well use my Amazon Prime account only. Like several others I’ve got movies, concerts, tv, cartoons and workout shows in my library that won’t scape correctly online. I am looking for an easier way to manually edit these files and correct the errors in others. I purchased Plex to organize my media, however it seems that I can only organize to the standards of some web scraper. NFO’s using the XMBCimporter was the solution until a few versions ago. Now the data, art, collection, and sort title that is imported may or may not stay. The issue is time and I can’t devote weeks to redo a database that I spent years collecting. The built-in editor is horribly slow vs. being able to edit via spreadsheet or some other external editor. This is a database?
PMS does not restrict what you place in your Library. If you want metadata to be fully automatically populated, then Yes, it has to exist somewhere and the names must comply with the official (as dictated to Plex) names.
Here is an example of No-Scrape data. It is in a library of type “Other Videos”. In there, you can add metadata / tags / names as you wish.
You can create a folder structure. Again, completely how you wish.
However, would it be possible to have the same IMDb ID scrapper that is currently there for movies, also added for TV shows?
So when a new series is scanned in, check if an NFO exists in the series root folder, if it does and it contains a TVDbId - use this ID for the series match?
