Utility: Batch Metadata Importer 3.x

[stuckless]

The metadata tool puts the metadata files (properties and thumbnail) in places that Sagetv requires, in order that Sagetv can read them and utilize them. I don't believe that Sage will read the metadata if they are in the actual dvd folder.

[kentro71]

Ok, I thought maybe I was doing something wrong. Thank you for yor help.

[tmiranda]

I tried running the "list" function on a directory that contains several movies in .mpg format (single file, not DVD format) and received the following:

Listing Movies
U = MetaData Updated/Newer; - = Missing MetaData; + = Has MetaData

What does this mean and what am I doing wrong?

Edit: I figured it out - user error

[stuckless]

What does this mean and what am I doing wrong?

Basically if it had found any movies it would have listed them, and they would have been prefixed by 'U', '-', or '+' and the first list that is displayed is the legend for those symbols.

Could you post your command line?
What java version? (requires java5 or 6)

The command has to be run from the directory in which it was extracted.
example,

C:\metadatatool> java -jar MetadataTool.jar --listMovies c:\mymovies\

[QueOnda]

Going to try your tool soon. What are the picture resolutions you are getting from the various websites?

[stuckless]

What are the picture resolutions you are getting from the various websites?

I'm not sure about the exact picture resolutions. Currently it will pull images from DVD Profiler and IMDB, so if you are happy with those programs/sites, then the image quality will be ok. Personally, I only use it with IMDB, and I'm pretty happy with the image qaulity, but I'm pretty easy to please

[electronics4lif]

Thank you for the tool. I too would love some higher resolution images. I am using sage in my home theater with a projector and 109" screen. IMDB images just aren't cutting it.

Your tool has also taught me a lot about how sage handles metadata. For a while now I couldn't get any "descriptions" to show up. I didn't realize that sage only reads the .properties when the file is first detected.

Thank you.

[bcjenkins]

Pick up DVD Profiler for $30 bucks then use this tool for high resolution. Works great. http://www.invelos.com

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[bcjenkins]

Sean,

For your consideration. If the first word of the title is A, An, The, allow for dropping it. I have too many movies whose title starts with The.

Thanks for your work in this. It has motivated me to finish putting my entire library online. (3 more to go!)

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[electronics4lif]

It looks like the title that IMDB finds that is 'most popular' is the movie that is chosen to pull the information from. Why not use the "exact match" find? For example, if you search for the movie "Undiscovered", IMDB finds a popluar title of Star Trek:Wrath of Khan. A little below that is the exact match for "Undiscovered". This tool pulls the information for Star Trek though.

[QueOnda]

Originally Posted by electronics4lif

Thank you for the tool. I too would love some higher resolution images. I am using sage in my home theater with a projector and 109" screen. IMDB images just aren't cutting it.

Your tool has also taught me a lot about how sage handles metadata. For a while now I couldn't get any "descriptions" to show up. I didn't realize that sage only reads the .properties when the file is first detected.

Thank you.

Checkout My Movies 2, It has a folder scan option and free to use. It has higher quality images which save as folder.jpg. It mostly makes a higher image (my movies-front.jpg) witch is even a higher image quality.

[matt91]

this doesn't really belong in this thred, but it's kinda related, so i'll try.

I occasionally record movies off TV (kids Disney movies, mostly). How can I most easily get those movies into my SageMC videos directory?

I currently move them from my recordings directory to an import directory, but i also have to rename them, becuase Sage will remember that they are TV shows (and therefore display them in the TV recordings listings) if the "movie-123421-0.mpg" filename remains. And I also have to join them manually if there is a *-0 and *-1 situation.

Would seem that if I could just tell Sage that I want to see the movie in my videos, versus recordings, listings, it'd be much easier. Of course, I'd also like to get IMDB covers and info too.

thanks
matt

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by matt91

this doesn't really belong in this thred, but it's kinda related, so i'll try.

I occasionally record movies off TV (kids Disney movies, mostly). How can I most easily get those movies into my SageMC videos directory?

I currently move them from my recordings directory to an import directory, but i also have to rename them, becuase Sage will remember that they are TV shows (and therefore display them in the TV recordings listings) if the "movie-123421-0.mpg" filename remains. And I also have to join them manually if there is a *-0 and *-1 situation.

Would seem that if I could just tell Sage that I want to see the movie in my videos, versus recordings, listings, it'd be much easier. Of course, I'd also like to get IMDB covers and info too.

thanks
matt

Use the info editor built into the web server.

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[stuckless]

Originally Posted by electronics4lif

It looks like the title that IMDB finds that is 'most popular' is the movie that is chosen to pull the information from. Why not use the "exact match" find? For example, if you search for the movie "Undiscovered", IMDB finds a popluar title of Star Trek:Wrath of Khan. A little below that is the exact match for "Undiscovered". This tool pulls the information for Star Trek though.

Good Point. In my testing, with my movie collection, I had a better hit ratio when I used the "Popular" instead of the "Exact Match"... Since I wrote the program, I got to choose the one that better suited my needs

I'll look at adding a setting to allow you to use exact matches over popular matches.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

Sean,

For your consideration. If the first word of the title is A, An, The, allow for dropping it. I have too many movies whose title starts with The.
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I'll look at adding a setting that would allow the title to strip away a configurable set of first words, such as "The,A,An"

[electronics4lif]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Good Point. In my testing, with my movie collection, I had a better hit ratio when I used the "Popular" instead of the "Exact Match"... Since I wrote the program, I got to choose the one that better suited my needs

I'll look at adding a setting to allow you to use exact matches over popular matches.

Fair enough. After a little more testing, it really just 'depends'. The movie "Speed Racer" needs the popular hit. Don't get my wrong, I love the tool! It seems like if you google search "imdb (movie name)" it always finds the right imdb page. Has does google do it? lol

On a side note does anyone know how to refresh Sages's imported media from the command line also?

[bcjenkins]

Maybe an http request to the webserver could be scripted.

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[matt91]

Great tool! Works very well...except that I'm getting frustrated by the whole genre thing.

The tool is writing genre's as:
Genre=Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Musical/Romance/

I assume that's what Sage wants. I've shut down, edited the sage.properties to:
force_full_content_reindex=true

but I still have lots of genre's in Sage(MC) that show up as "Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Musical/Romance/".

I guess I'll try writing the genre's as multiple lines, but I don't think that's what Sage wants...

any help?

thanks
Matt

[jusjoken]

Sage, when loading the Genre from the .properties file can only deal with 2 genre. The first one it finds will be loaded into the Category field in the Sage database. The second AND subsequent ones will be loaded "as is" into the SubCategory field in the database. Therefore in your example you would get 2 categories...

Example:
Genre=Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Musical/Romance/

Result:
Category=Animation
SubCategory=Adventure/Comedy/Family/Musical/Romance/

At least that's how I think it works.

K

[stuckless]

There is a setting in the tool to force it to use ONLY a single genre entry. The default is to use more than one, which I'll change when I release another version. I misunderstood how sage uses the genre field, and since I don't use genre browsing, I didn't notice that it's not correct.

Add this your metadataupdater.properties file.

# Set to true|false to enable/disable single or multiple genre entries per line
org.jdna.media.metadata.impl.sage.SageVideoMetaData.singleGenreField=true