Title matching problem?

[appelm]

I had to do a complete re-install of SageTV due to a hard drive crash which was a total nightmare. But I'm up and running now and reimported all my videos with BMT active. I use a regular expression to skip a group of files that sometimes get garbarge metadata. After re-importing all my videos , I was left with some files that were skipped because they matched my regular expression. I removed the regular expression and tried updating just that group of files by selecting them under view by genre and going to "No Genre". When I click Update Metadata button, all the files fail. It seems its trying to do exact title matches. For instance, it failed to find "Animatrix". But when I do it manually, it finds it in the IMDB database as "The Animatrix". If I change the MediaTitle to "The Animatrix" and then run the Update Metadata job on all the files again, this time it updates that file successfully.

Similarly, I'm having a problem in the search dialogue under "Browse". I can't type a partial filename to find. If I type the exact name as long as there are no spaces, it finds it. With spaces in the title, regardless of whether I surround with ' or " it either doesn't find or produces an error message.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by appelm

I had to do a complete re-install of SageTV due to a hard drive crash which was a total nightmare. But I'm up and running now and reimported all my videos with BMT active. I use a regular expression to skip a group of files that sometimes get garbarge metadata. After re-importing all my videos , I was left with some files that were skipped because they matched my regular expression. I removed the regular expression and tried updating just that group of files by selecting them under view by genre and going to "No Genre". When I click Update Metadata button, all the files fail. It seems its trying to do exact title matches. For instance, it failed to find "Animatrix". But when I do it manually, it finds it in the IMDB database as "The Animatrix". If I change the MediaTitle to "The Animatrix" and then run the Update Metadata job on all the files again, this time it updates that file successfully.

Similarly, I'm having a problem in the search dialogue under "Browse". I can't type a partial filename to find. If I type the exact name as long as there are no spaces, it finds it. With spaces in the title, regardless of whether I surround with ' or " it either doesn't find or produces an error message.

The Search box in the Browse is a PQL (Phoenix Query Language) search box. If you enter a single word it will treat it as a Title = "Word" query, but if you enter multiple words, then it needs to be formatted as a correct PQL statement.

YOu can do something like, Title contains "Partial Title", if you want to find a title that contains a partial word.

As for title matching... BMT will attempt to guess on titles, but if it's not sure, then it won't use it. You can set your own tolerance for errors, which is currently set to .9 (it's a value between 0 and 1 where 0 is accept anything, and 1 is accept only exact matches). When you do a manual search it returns a single result, it doesn't mean the result is within the tolerance, and BMT will not simply take the result, because it is the only one returned. You best bet is to name your stuff with as much information as to ensure an exact hit. ie, "The Animatrix (2003)" would be good filename. BMT will work with some oddly named items, but you are bound to experience some misses.