Utility: Batch Metadata Importer 3.x

[jsin]

Originally Posted by gplasky

It must be. On my system if I refresh the metadata thru jaminben's advanced movie info or in the regular video screen then if I view the videos thru the "Date Added" sort every movie that had it fanart/metadata refreshed is now at the top of the list. It's not good that it works that way. I figured it was the beta nature of Metatools 3 and not much to do until stuckless returns. I don't think it happens if BMT auto updates. I've seen it when I manually refresh it through an option screen in Sage.

Gerry

I do agree that "It's not good that it works that way". Problem as I understand it is that SageTV will not pick up the updated .properties unless the time stamp on the corresponding file is changed. I think BMT or any other tool that updates .properties are just trying to be accommodating.

Until SageTV can refresh .properties with newer dates, perhaps we would have to use some other contrived method.

How about increasing the file time stamp by 1 sec. (or 1min or 1hour or whatever will make SageTV refresh), instead of just using the current time? That's be awesome!

[jsin]

Originally Posted by stuckless

You are not asking a lot... and your requests have been noted.... so as you browse the list, you'll see that while you are not asking a lot, other people are also not asking a lot, but together.... it does add up

Hey, just wanted to say thanks! Thanks for working on a nice program that helps other people (like me).

Also, if you need any help, let me know. I'm more of a system administrator than a programmer, but I'll help where I can.

Please enjoy your vacation - one thing I hate most is needing a vacation after a vacation.

[alfi33]

I installed 3.0 beta 9 last night and have been playing with it today. Very cool! Great work, stuckless!

It seems to be fetching metadata for me for everything I'd expect it to except for the show 24 from DVDs (not recordings).

It fails on individual episodes ripped from DVDs:

2009-08-07 14:27:50,420 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\panini\videos\Test\24\Season 2\24 S02E01.mkv

It also fails on straight DVD rips:

2009-08-07 14:32:22,959 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\popcorn\DVDs\FullDisc\24 Season 2\24 S02D01\VIDEO_TS

Is there something wrong with the way I have things named?

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by alfi33

I installed 3.0 beta 9 last night and have been playing with it today. Very cool! Great work, stuckless!

It seems to be fetching metadata for me for everything I'd expect it to except for the show 24 from DVDs (not recordings).

It fails on individual episodes ripped from DVDs:

2009-08-07 14:27:50,420 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\panini\videos\Test\24\Season 2\24 S02E01.mkv

It also fails on straight DVD rips:

2009-08-07 14:32:22,959 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\popcorn\DVDs\FullDisc\24 Season 2\24 S02D01\VIDEO_TS

Is there something wrong with the way I have things named?

I have individual episodes of 24 which BMT recognizes. They are named as follows:

24 - S07E01 - Day 7- 8-00 AM - 9-00 AM

I used TV Rename to get this name

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by dbone1026

I have individual episodes of 24 which BMT recognizes. They are named as follows:

24 - S07E01 - Day 7- 8-00 AM - 9-00 AM

I used TV Rename to get this name

I renamed one of the files using your naming format but I got the same result.

2009-08-07 16:22:26,343 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\panini\videos\Test\24\Season 2\24 - S02E03 - Day 2 - 10-00 am - 11-00 am.mkv

I just realized that it successfully gets metadata if I do it manually from within SageMC but it's failing during the automatic run.

Do you remember if BMT recognized it for you during an automatic run?

Pretty much everything else I have is recognized automatically including other DVD sets of other TV shows. It seems to be only 24 that's not recognized automatically for me. I assume I'm doing something wrong...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by alfi33

I renamed one of the files using your naming format but I got the same result.

2009-08-07 16:22:26,343 ERROR [LibraryImporter] org.jdna.sage.MetadataUpdaterPlugin (MetadataUpdaterPlugin.java:172) - Failed to Fetch Metadata for Media: \\panini\videos\Test\24\Season 2\24 - S02E03 - Day 2 - 10-00 am - 11-00 am.mkv

I just realized that it successfully gets metadata if I do it manually from within SageMC but it's failing during the automatic run.

Do you remember if BMT recognized it for you during an automatic run?

Pretty much everything else I have is recognized automatically including other DVD sets of other TV shows. It seems to be only 24 that's not recognized automatically for me. I assume I'm doing something wrong...

Could you check the mailcheck.log and see if there are any errors? bmt uses the log4j facilities and it's logging goes to the mailcheck.log file by default.

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Could you check the mailcheck.log and see if there are any errors? bmt uses the log4j facilities and it's logging goes to the mailcheck.log file by default.

Attached is a section of the mailcheck.log file for when bmt was trying to process a file named 24 S0205.mkv.

I don't see any clues that are obvious to me that points to why it might be failing...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by alfi33

Attached is a section of the mailcheck.log file for when bmt was trying to process a file named 24 S0205.mkv.

I don't see any clues that are obvious to me that points to why it might be failing...

Thanks for the log. I've found and fixed an issue in the scoring code where sometimes the score being generated was "Not a Number", and this caused some other side effects, such as what you are seeing. This fix will go in to the final 3.0 build.

[cowboyway]

I have a new installation of everything (sage tv, mc, and bmt) on vista 32 bit. I verified my bmt install as the latest as of today to be 3.0 beta 9. I double checked the edits that needed to be made per the instructions. I checked my java version to be 1.6.

I did change the port to 8010 and restart the sage service when default didn't work. Still no joy trying: http://localhost:8080/bmt

Get page not found.

Any ideas? I'm trying to link into my My Movies metadata.

thanks

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Thanks for the log. I've found and fixed an issue in the scoring code where sometimes the score being generated was "Not a Number", and this caused some other side effects, such as what you are seeing. This fix will go in to the final 3.0 build.

Great! Thanks. Looking forward to it! I am loving this tool. I don't know why I waited so long to give it a try.

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by cowboyway

I did change the port to 8010 and restart the sage service when default didn't work. Still no joy trying: http://localhost:8080/bmt

If you changed the port to 8010, then you would need to go to http://localhost:8010/bmt

[mayhewda]

I have only the phoneix.jar file there. I have to be doing something wrong but everytime i update the sage.properties file save it, check it, its fine. Then i start sagetv and try the localhost command and it doesnt work. Check the sage file again and the updates are not there! I am lossing my mind as i have tried this 10 times :-) Is there anything special for editing this file? Appreciate any help.

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by mayhewda

I have only the phoneix.jar file there. I have to be doing something wrong but everytime i update the sage.properties file save it, check it, its fine. Then i start sagetv and try the localhost command and it doesnt work. Check the sage file again and the updates are not there! I am lossing my mind as i have tried this 10 times :-) Is there anything special for editing this file? Appreciate any help.

Are you running Sage as a service? If so, did you stop the service before editing the properties file?

[cowboyway]

Originally Posted by alfi33

If you changed the port to 8010, then you would need to go to http://localhost:8010/bmt

Typo in my posting... i was accessing via the correct port at http://localhost:8010/bmt
it does not work for me.

I tried accessing it via command line and get this error...

C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV>java -jar MetadataTool.jar -showProperties
Sage Provider Implementation: org.jdna.metadataupdater.BMTSageAPIProvider; org.j
dna.metadataupdater.BMTSageAPIProvider[BMT Command Line Impl]; Version: 6.5.19
Batch MetaData Tools (3.0-beta-9)
File Not Found: C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\ûshowProperties
Consider adding --offline=true if you want to create an offline video.
No Files to process.

Never mind... localhost doesn't work... you need to use the actual IP address of the box.

[frontlinegeek]

I am loving the BMT tool but I have one question/request...

Why is the rating for say, a movie, not showing up for an AVI/MKV of a movie but it will for the DVD rip?

I ask as I want to start using the parental controls because my little guy knows how to use the remotes now...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by que3jxp

I am loving the BMT tool but I have one question/request...

Why is the rating for say, a movie, not showing up for an AVI/MKV of a movie but it will for the DVD rip?

I ask as I want to start using the parental controls because my little guy knows how to use the remotes now...

There was a bug opened for this, and after doing some researching, I found that themoviedb.org does not pass back the MPAA rating for movies. IMDB does, but some movies will not have have it set as well. So, it's not really reliable from imdb or themoviedb.org. DVD profiler does have a MPAA field, and the code will extract if it has a value.

[frontlinegeek]

Cool. Thanks.

Another question that has arose... File and directory naming conventions...

Is it OK to have TV shows set as follows:

c:\tv\24\Season 1
\Season 2

etc...

Then in each of the season folders, have the file name "e01.avi", "e02.avi", etc....

Thanks,
Jason.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by que3jxp

Cool. Thanks.

Another question that has arose... File and directory naming conventions...

Is it OK to have TV shows set as follows:

c:\tv\24\Season 1
\Season 2

etc...

Then in each of the season folders, have the file name "e01.avi", "e02.avi", etc....

Thanks,
Jason.

The only format that bmt recognizes out of the box, is "ShowName - S##E## - Title.ext", but that is controlled by the tvfilename scrapers in the scrapers/xbmc/tvfilenames/* scrapers.

So, if you look at the existing scrapers, and you know a bit of regexp, then you can build a tv filename scraper that supports any naming convention that you use.

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by stuckless

The only format that bmt recognizes out of the box, is "ShowName - S##E## - Title.ext", but that is controlled by the tvfilename scrapers in the scrapers/xbmc/tvfilenames/* scrapers.

So, if you look at the existing scrapers, and you know a bit of regexp, then you can build a tv filename scraper that supports any naming convention that you use.

Also, another way would be to use a program such as tvrename which will automatically rename your files for you to the out of the box format that BMT recognizes. I use the program, it does the job and makes sure I keep my naming consistent

[PLUCKYHD]

Got another feature request what about a show description (for an entire series) I know you pull each episode description but a general show description would be nice as well.