BMT writing to DB ?

[nyplayer]

If the season and episode are missing from the Sage DB. Will BMT write it to the DB once it finds it from TheTVDB. I am testing rebuilding the DB from scratch using the Web Server and the season and episodes #'s are not included in the XML.. I was wondering and hoping the BMT will write it to the DB.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

If the season and episode are missing from the Sage DB. Will BMT write it to the DB once it finds it from TheTVDB. I am testing rebuilding the DB from scratch using the Web Server and the season and episodes #'s are not included in the XML.. I was wondering and hoping the BMT will write it to the DB.

If it's a recording an "Preserve Original Metadata" is enabled (it is by default), then it will not, for a recording. For imported media it will. And by "write to database", bmt, since calls the SageTV apis for setting such information, which ends up in the database (and properties files as well).

[nyplayer]

That means that if it has no season or episode information ... but it retrieves it from the TVDb for a sage recording that it will not make a call to write it to the Sage Db? or will it?

even if I have this checked.

Fill in Missing Metadata for Recordings

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

That means that if it has no season or episode information ... but it retrieves it from the TVDb for a sage recording that it will not make a call to write it to the Sage Db? or will it?

even if I have this checked.

Fill in Missing Metadata for Recordings

Fill in Missing Metadata works in conjunction with Preserve Original Metadata, in that Preserver Original Metadata will not attempt to update "original" fields even if they are empty... but with "Fill in Missing" checked, it will still not overwrite an original field, but it will update it, if it is blank... again ONLY for SageTV recordings.

Another option you can use to import/export metadata AND have it retain the existing Season and Episode information is to use the Batch Operation -> Export .properties operation from a BMT view. This will create a .properties file for each video item. Later when you re-import the video files, and the .properties exists, then SageTV will use all that data when adding it to the librarary. It should even retain whether or not it's a recording, and the Watched Status.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Fill in Missing Metadata works in conjunction with Preserve Original Metadata, in that Preserver Original Metadata will not attempt to update "original" fields even if they are empty... but with "Fill in Missing" checked, it will still not overwrite an original field, but it will update it, if it is blank... again ONLY for SageTV recordings.

Another option you can use to import/export metadata AND have it retain the existing Season and Episode information is to use the Batch Operation -> Export .properties operation from a BMT view. This will create a .properties file for each video item. Later when you re-import the video files, and the .properties exists, then SageTV will use all that data when adding it to the librarary. It should even retain whether or not it's a recording, and the Watched Status.

Thanks it works exactly how I wanted it to

Thanks a lot!!!!