Metadata Being Corrupted/Removed

[FidgetyRat]

I recently imported a whole season of How I Met Your Mother and have each episode as a .m4v. I used the web tool to download the metadata/fanart and it all worked great.

About an hour or 2 later, all the meta data was erased and in some cases just corrupted. Some of the videos were set as movies, others as TV. fields go moved, removed, etc.

I went and updated them all over again. This time they lasted over night, and then on todays library refresh, it happened all over again.


Why is sage losing my metadata?

v7.0.11 with metadata tools 4.2 installed through plugin manager.


I'm not sure if this is the direct cause or not, but in my sagex-api log i have the following exceptions whenever I save metadata using the web gui. Maybe my meta data is never making it officially into sage's memory and thats why the next import whipes it out?

2010-07-03 16:44:17,023 [4771358@qtp-22662250-1] WARN  sagex.SageAPI - call() failed for: SetMediaFileMetadata
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sage.SageTV.api(Unknown Source)
	at sagex.remote.EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.callService(EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.java:16)
	at sagex.SageAPI.call(SageAPI.java:163)
	at sagex.api.MediaFileAPI.SetMediaFileMetadata(MediaFileAPI.java:1572)
	at sagex.phoenix.metadata.proxy.SageMediaFileMetadataProxy.set(SageMediaFileMetadataProxy.java:31)
	at sagex.phoenix.metadata.proxy.AbstractMetadataProxy.invoke(AbstractMetadataProxy.java:49)
	at $Proxy11.setMisc(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sagex.phoenix.metadata.MetadataUtil.copyModifiedMetadata(MetadataUtil.java:190)
	at sagex.phoenix.metadata.persistence.Sage7Persistence.storeMetadata(Sage7Persistence.java:49)
	at sagex.phoenix.metadata.MetadataManager.updateMetadata(MetadataManager.java:466)
	at org.jdna.bmt.web.server.MetadataServicesImpl.saveMetadata(MetadataServicesImpl.java:342)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:562)
	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:188)
	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:224)
	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.doPost(AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.java:62)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:502)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:389)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:417)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:230)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:534)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:879)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:747)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:218)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
	at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:409)
	at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:520)
Caused by: sage.a.e: Error in method reflection of SetMediaFileMetadata of java.lang.NullPointerException
	at sage.ay.a(Unknown Source)
	at sage.e.a(Unknown Source)
	... 44 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at sage.b3.else(Unknown Source)
	at sage.e.m$50.null(Unknown Source)
	... 46 more

[stuckless]

For some reason, Sage is getting a null pointer exception on some piece of data. I'm not sure which piece. But, because of how sagetv processing SetMediaFileMetadata requests, a single failure should only result in a single piece of metadata not being stored. ie, if it failed on "Actor" then the actor list would be null, but the rest of the metadata would still be in tact.

[FidgetyRat]

So far it has not gone crazy in the past 24+ hours. I change the file names of all the recordings, and re-did all their meta data. If it all gets screwed up again I'll post. Im wondering if it didn't have something to do with .m4v videos or something? From now on i'm just going to rip them straight to mpeg2 just to be safe. At least I know the meta sticks for those.