Utility: Batch Metadata Importer 3.x

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

As for the web scanning.... I use the MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFiles(mask) to return the list of media files. For some reason, I am seeing tuners showing up as media files as well, but I just thought this was normal. Also, note that when you are doing a scan from the web UI, then only results that are returned in the list, are those that CANNOT be automatically updated. All auto updated results are not returned in the list. My thinking here is that you'd only want to edit those results that cannot be automatically updated.

I'll try to get a build out later today.

As for the getmediafiles(mask) I has that problem once and think I had to ad a "islibraryfile" true filter to get rid of the tuners. You may have already figures this out

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

As for the getmediafiles(mask) I has that problem once and think I had to ad a "islibraryfile" true filter to get rid of the tuners. You may have already figures this out

i think islibraryfile will also filter out non archived recorded tv.

[stuckless]

From what I can recall, you can pass "L" in the mediamask. You both are correct, but it adds a side effect. To return all media files, I would use "TVDB", but it included the tuners. So I added "L", which resulted in "LTVDB", and it would remove the tuners, but it also removed my TV (as per razrsharpe's post). In the end, i'm basically doing a couple of querries and then using DataUnion to build up the complete list. I'm not happy with it, but it's working.

[mkanet]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I know, I know....

It's more work now, but if you can get the success rate up then you'll spend less time on support later.

Aloha,
Mike

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

i think islibraryfile will also filter out non archived recorded tv.

What if you filter istv = true as well? I don mess with tv in my app so don't know just throwing is out here

Also didn't know about the "L" in mediamask is this new because I thought the api when I looked a while back only called tvdb

[sflamm]

+1 for MeInMaui's suggestions (sounds familiar )

I know it is more work in the short run, but I think that in the long run you'll find that it will work more effectively -- and be far less work. It is simpler logic, both to code/debug as well as to understand and use from the end user perspective. And it behaves as expected - meaning that you configure Movies, TV, and Music respectively and you get what you have configured for each.

As always - appreciate all your hard work. Here's to hoping you bite the bullet on making this improvement

[PLUCKYHD]

Hey Stuckless I am unable to change the scaling directory in the latest build.

Changing property in the clients.properties and sage.properties has no effect

/phoenix/imageutil/cacheDir=\\\Servername\\fanart\\cachescaled

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Hey Stuckless I am unable to change the scaling directory in the latest build.

Changing property in the clients.properties and sage.properties has no effect

/phoenix/imageutil/cacheDir=\\\Servername\\fanart\\cachescaled

I just checked, this property is only read on startup. So you'd have to shut down sage, change the property, and then start again.

Personally, i'd avoid changing the cacheDir, and i'd try to keep it local for performance reasons.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I just checked, this property is only read on startup. So you'd have to shut down sage, change the property, and then start again.

Personally, i'd avoid changing the cacheDir, and i'd try to keep it local for performance reasons.

Yeah I did that shut down sage and restarted still nope.

I would like to keep it local but the cache files are getting large and keeping it on the WHS c:\ is not the best situation.

[veger69]

I have followed the install directions but am having a problem when trying to configure the Jetty settings

9. Access BMT web configuration Console

http://JettyServerName:JettyServerPortNumber/bmt


If you are running on the SageTV server and using the default port:

http://localhost:8080/bmt

I installed jetty with default settings so the second entry "http://localhost:8080/bmt" should work but i get

Directory: /bmt/
WEB-INF/ 0 bytes Jul 17, 2009 7:20:51 PM

when entering the address and if a click on the wed-info link I get this

HTTP ERROR: 404

NOT_FOUND

RequestURI=/bmt/WEB-INF/

Powered by Jetty://

any help would be appreciated

[RedCoat999]

Want to ignore the following folders:

D\:Simons Files\Videos\Home Movies

and

D\:Simons Files\My Pictures


How should these be entered into the config screen?
Using latest builds 3.x etc.

If I did a scan then files in these folders should not show up, correct?
Thanks

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by veger69

I have followed the install directions but am having a problem when trying to configure the Jetty settings

9. Access BMT web configuration Console

http://JettyServerName:JettyServerPortNumber/bmt


If you are running on the SageTV server and using the default port:

http://localhost:8080/bmt

I installed jetty with default settings so the second entry "http://localhost:8080/bmt" should work but i get

Directory: /bmt/
WEB-INF/ 0 bytes Jul 17, 2009 7:20:51 PM

when entering the address and if a click on the wed-info link I get this

HTTP ERROR: 404

NOT_FOUND

RequestURI=/bmt/WEB-INF/

Powered by Jetty://

any help would be appreciated

The only time I've seen this if when Jetty does not extract the contents of the war file. An older build of the bmt web context didn't the set the appropriate flags to extract the contents, but that's been fixed. Are you running the latest beta? If you, then try removing the jetty/webapps/bmt/ directory, not the .war file, and then restart the server.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by RedCoat999

Want to ignore the following folders:

D\:Simons Files\Videos\Home Movies

and

D\:Simons Files\My Pictures


How should these be entered into the config screen?
Using latest builds 3.x etc.

If I did a scan then files in these folders should not show up, correct?
Thanks

In the configuration panel, Configure - > Metadata Tools -> Media Configuration, add the following to the "Ignore These Folders" field.

Home Movies|My Pictures

The field is actually a regular expression, so that should loosely match those 2 folders.

[BigDragon]

When i view my movies i can't see the poster even thought
i can see in the properties files that there is a valid link to the poster.
Only one movie of mine presents the poster (only after i mark it).

Is there any solution to this problem?
Thanks

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by BigDragon

When i view my movies i can't see the poster even thought
i can see in the properties files that there is a valid link to the poster.
Only one movie of mine presents the poster (only after i mark it).

Is there any solution to this problem?
Thanks

Check the first post under the Submitting Bugs/Requesting Help section. There is a form there to help you provide Sean with relevant information.

Aloha,
Mike

[veger69]

Originally Posted by stuckless

The only time I've seen this if when Jetty does not extract the contents of the war file. An older build of the bmt web context didn't the set the appropriate flags to extract the contents, but that's been fixed. Are you running the latest beta? If you, then try removing the jetty/webapps/bmt/ directory, not the .war file, and then restart the server.

thanks that did the trick

[RedCoat999]

Originally Posted by stuckless

In the configuration panel, Configure - > Metadata Tools -> Media Configuration, add the following to the "Ignore These Folders" field.

Home Movies|My Pictures

The field is actually a regular expression, so that should loosely match those 2 folders.

Thanks. I changed it to that. If I do a scan the files in these folders still show up. Is that correct?

[PLUCKYHD]

Starting to get my tv into sage from media center and got a quick question on the media mask in the properties file.


"bmt/sageMetadata/tvTitleMask=S${SeasonNumber}E${EpisodeNumber} - ${EpisodeTitle}"

above is what I changed mine too.

Does that control the title that sage sees or the mask you ahve your tv saved in?

Example I save all of mine in showname s01e01 but I want sage to display

s01e01-episode title

thanks in advance as now when doing it sagemc shows title s01e01-episode title

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Starting to get my tv into sage from media center and got a quick question on the media mask in the properties file.


"bmt/sageMetadata/tvTitleMask=S${SeasonNumber}E${EpisodeNumber} - ${EpisodeTitle}"

above is what I changed mine too.

Does that control the title that sage sees or the mask you ahve your tv saved in?

Example I save all of mine in showname s01e01 but I want sage to display

s01e01-episode title

thanks in advance as now when doing it sagemc shows title s01e01-episode title

Sean can correct me if im wrong... but the the titlemask is used by BMT to write the "title" of the media item in the SageDB... calls to GetAiringTitle(), and GetMediaTitle() will read this as the title. This is what SageMC lists as the title in the video library.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by RedCoat999

Thanks. I changed it to that. If I do a scan the files in these folders still show up. Is that correct?

I'll to check the "ignore folders" option to see if it's broken. The idea, is that they should not be included in your scan, but it they are, then it's broken

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

Sean can correct me if im wrong... but the the titlemask is used by BMT to write the "title" of the media item in the SageDB... calls to GetAiringTitle(), and GetMediaTitle() will read this as the title. This is what SageMC lists as the title in the video library.

That is correct. It's the "display title" for the item. The mask is used when calculating the display title, and it gets written to the sagedb or the properties file.