BMT 4.8 / Phoenix 2.2 - The Metadata Fixes

[stuckless]

I just released a new version of the Metadata Tools. It's now as 4.8, using phoenix 2.2, and sagex-api 7.0.19. When you update the web ui, I should force an upgrade on all the dependencies. A restart is required.

This is actually quite a big release, in terms of the amount of code changes.

I've fixed the IMDB issue, so it should now be working again.
There were numerous fixes to the themoviedb provider (honestly, I'm not sure it worked before, except for a single word movie titles).
There were some minor fixes to the tvdb provider.

Also, if you are DVD Profiler user with a HUGE collection.xml file, then this build will consume the large xml without running out memory. I've rewritten the DVD Profiler provider to use a more efficient parser so that at any given time only a single dvd node is ever loaded into memory.

As I mentioned, this is large release, in terms of the amount of code changed. The largest change actually comes of the VFS that is in the phoenix core and used by the web ui. The VFS underwent a huge number of changes. You don't need to know the ins and outs... just keep an eye on your web ui browser to see if things are working as you expect.

All code in this release underwent a full unit test, and everything checked out, including the VFS, so hopefully it's smooth sailing.

Good luck.

[DirtClodimus]

Thanks for the update. The searches for metadata seem to work much better now.

Thank you for all of your hard work on this!

[davidk21770]

TheTVdb.com is not working at all for me.
I get nothing found for all shows.

And the new organization's really bad for me. I have to sort through a lot more than I did before (like all of my pictures individually of which I have 100s -- and recordings include movies individually of which I have quite a bit!).

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by davidk21770

TheTVdb.com is not working at all for me.
I get nothing found for all shows.

TVDB has been offline for most the day for me. When bmt can't fetch from tvdb, then try going to site directly as well. It was up for awhile, which enabled me to run through the unit tests... and they did pass.

And the new organization's really bad for me. I have to sort through a lot more than I did before (like all of my pictures individually of which I have 100s -- and recordings include movies individually of which I have quite a bit!).

There should not have been that much change to the organization... could you be more specific? Are you talking about the views? if so, which views specifically? I get the impression that you are seeing some images mixed with your video items. Is this for all views? Some views? Are you saying that the Recordings are showing imported video items? Or is is it just showing Recordings and Recorded movies?

[jorton]

Is anyone else having problems getting metadata for files that have an ampersand ("&") in the title?

I have two files that I tried updating this morning "Fast & Furious" and "Angels & Demons" have weird titles now.

Both were from IMDB.

See attached.

Thanks,

Jeremy

Edit - Also seeing this for name/role "Paul Walker / Brian O'Conner" - Should just be "O'Conner" (see attached)

Edit - "-" in the name like "G-Force" seems to be OK.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jorton

Is anyone else having problems getting metadata for files that have an ampersand ("&") in the title?

I have two files that I tried updating this morning "Fast & Furious" and "Angels & Demons" have weird titles now.

Both were from IMDB.

See attached.

Thanks,

Jeremy

Edit - Also seeing this for name/role "Paul Walker / Brian O'Conner" - Should just be "O'Conner" (see attached)

Edit - "-" in the name like "G-Force" seems to be OK.

It appears that I forgot to unescapte the html entities in the imdb parser Before I was using a parser that automatically did this. I'll try to get a build out today.

[stuckless]

This new version of phoenix core fixes the escaping issue (or lack thereof) that was present in the 2.2. build for IMDB.

If you haven't installed bmt 4.8, then you'll get this updated jar automatically when you instatll bmt... otherwise, if you have already installed 4.8, just update the phoenix-core.

[jorton]

Thanks Stuckless!

That fixed the & and ' parsing.

Jeremy

[ranger]

Just updated to the newest version. Thanks!
Now I am trying to get my movie information updated. I am looking at the web view for "Missing Metadata" and working on the ones that didn't match up. I can manually find the metadata, but when I go to save, I get an error "ExternalID cannot be blank". The External ID field is of course blank.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by ranger

Just updated to the newest version. Thanks!
Now I am trying to get my movie information updated. I am looking at the web view for "Missing Metadata" and working on the ones that didn't match up. I can manually find the metadata, but when I go to save, I get an error "ExternalID cannot be blank". The External ID field is of course blank.

This sounds like a very old issue. Does it say 4.8 in the browser title? If not, then do a shift refresh and force full reloead of the bmt web ui. External ID should never blank, but it also should be automatically filled in.

[ranger]

Originally Posted by stuckless

This sounds like a very old issue. Does it say 4.8 in the browser title? If not, then do a shift refresh and force full reloead of the bmt web ui. External ID should never blank, but it also should be automatically filled in.

Yes, it does say 4.8 in the title. I looked at the movies in BMT again and it appears that BMT didn't find metadata for any of my archive movie files. All these movies are in their own folders for compatibility with MyMovies. \\server\mediashare\movies\Muppet Movie\ (etc...)

To try and remedy, I shut down MyMovies and renamed the "movies" folder. I then did a quick xcopy to copy just the movie folder names, substituted it for the movies folder and ran an update to clean out BMT / Sage. Once that completed, I replaced the real "movies" folder and ran another import.

This seemed to clean up most of the data errors with a few exceptions
- In the BMT web Interface, the "Movies" view is still blank
- TV Series "specials" have no metadata (old issue)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by ranger

Yes, it does say 4.8 in the title. I looked at the movies in BMT again and it appears that BMT didn't find metadata for any of my archive movie files. All these movies are in their own folders for compatibility with MyMovies. \\server\mediashare\movies\Muppet Movie\ (etc...)

To try and remedy, I shut down MyMovies and renamed the "movies" folder. I then did a quick xcopy to copy just the movie folder names, substituted it for the movies folder and ran an update to clean out BMT / Sage. Once that completed, I replaced the real "movies" folder and ran another import.

This seemed to clean up most of the data errors with a few exceptions
- In the BMT web Interface, the "Movies" view is still blank
- TV Series "specials" have no metadata (old issue)

I can't see how having the movies in their own folder would make a difference... ie,
/Moves/Terminator/Terminator.avi would be the same as /Movies/Terminator.avi. BMT does all of its matching from the filenames, and doesn't use the folder at all.

As for the Movies view, it's currently broken. It's something I was working on, and it probably shouldn't be in there.

[sentinal]

Stuckless, thanks for the update!
One question - I notice that for those titles that have fan art, the text is removed from the thumbnail view which I'm completely fine with. Are there other sources for grabbing fan art so I can remove all of the text from the thumbnail view? Kind of a silly workaround but I like fan art and over half of my movies don't have any so it'll be killing two birds with one stone.
Thanks again!

[Peter_h]

The title to the "Videos" view is misspelled. Mine reads "Vidoes".

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by sentinal

One question - I notice that for those titles that have fan art, the text is removed from the thumbnail view which I'm completely fine with. Are there other sources for grabbing fan art so I can remove all of the text from the thumbnail view? Kind of a silly workaround but I like fan art and over half of my movies don't have any so it'll be killing two birds with one stone.

I don't quite understand. Perhaps you can elaborate (show a picture, even). The movie titles show display whether there is fanart or not. As for alternate sources... TheMovieDB is the only place to grab fanart (for movies) or TMDB for TV.

Originally Posted by Peter_h

The title to the "Videos" view is misspelled. Mine reads "Vidoes".

DOH! I can't believe my QA people missed that (It's fixed now, so it'll be in the next build)

[Neo]

Clicking on "All Videos (Grouped)" gives me a view with folders sorted by year, for example "2010" with subtitle "/All Videos (Grouped)/2010"

I click on this folder and get a new subfolder "2010" with subtitle "/All Videos (Grouped)/2010/2010" ...and again, adding 2010 for each level

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Neo

Clicking on "All Videos (Grouped)" gives me a view with folders sorted by year, for example "2010" with subtitle "/All Videos (Grouped)/2010"

I click on this folder and get a new subfolder "2010" with subtitle "/All Videos (Grouped)/2010/2010" ...and again, adding 2010 for each level

Thanks... I'll open a bug for that... I actually noticed that myself as well.

[bialio]

Originally Posted by sentinal

Stuckless, thanks for the update!
One question - I notice that for those titles that have fan art, the text is removed from the thumbnail view which I'm completely fine with. Are there other sources for grabbing fan art so I can remove all of the text from the thumbnail view? Kind of a silly workaround but I like fan art and over half of my movies don't have any so it'll be killing two birds with one stone.
Thanks again!

I suspect you are refering to the Phoenix Fanart plugin for the Sage V7 UI - when there is Phoenix fanart for the thumbnail it hides the text.

To answer your question - you can populate the fanart directory manually if you can find fan art on your own - I usually use google's image search to locate suitable artwork for items that just don't have anything in the 'official' repositories.

btl.

[darcilicious]

When I click on "Movies" on the left, I get no results.

When I click on "TV (Series/Season)" it looks like *everything* is showing up, TV and Movies alike...

I know this wasn't the case before I updated BMT/Phoenix Core. Help?

Edit: I'm still using v7.0.18 -- would that cause a problem?

[bialio]

The Movies view is broken, and doesn't work.

TV (Series/Season) should have all of your recorded shows (TV Shows and Movies that aired on TV) in it. Basically anything SageTV core thinks of as a TV Recording.....

btl.