MediaTitles.xml and how to read it

[VikingCrown]

Originally Posted by stuckless

for your needs, all you really need is a simply properties file (or user record) that maps CurrentTitle=DesiredTitle. Again, you can probably do this using the MediaTitles.xml but a simple properties file might work better. I do something like this now for the ratings. I use a properties file (which is like a map) and I set the rating something like
rating=ratings.getProperty(CurrentRating,CurrentRating)
This way, rating will either be CurrentRating or a value the properties file.

Stuckless,

could you provide a little more info here? This sounds easier than using the MediaTitles.xml which i can't seem to make work for similar titles, Castle, V, Parenthood . . .

Here is my mediatitles.xml:

<titles>
	<!--
	A Match can contain a regex that will be used to match against the path.  If it matches, then it will
	then set the fields, title, year, or id, into the search query.
	-->
	
	<match>
		<regex>[\\/]V[\\/]</regex>
		<metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>
	</match>

</titles>

Here is the error:
2011-01-21 16:30:22,388 - ERROR; E:\V-LaidBare-1084643-0.mpg; V; 1093887; Failed while parsing series: MediaSearchResult [extraArgs={CLEAN_TITLE: V,YEAR: 0,EPISODE_TITLE: Laid Bare,RAW_TITLE: V,EPISODE_DATE: 2011-01-18,}, id=76354, imdbId=null, metadata=null, providerId=tvdb, score=1.0, title=V, type=TV, url=76354, year=1983]

I'm happy to try and make the mediatitles.xml work, but if a simple properties file will do the trick, i'm all for it.

[razrsharpe]

stuckless and i were talking about development and how to get the UI to not display years in the title of shows like Castle and Parenthood so this really isn't applicable to your situation.... And my problem went away with bmt 4.9.7 which fixed a bug that was allowing the automatic processor to update items that were already filled in even though preserve metadata was checked.

But... on to your problem with the mediatitles.xml file. To get the mediatitles.xml file to work you need to understand that the regex portion of the match is a full path filename matcher...

Sage recordings all have a similar format [PATH\ShowName-EpisodeTitle-XXXXXX-X]

the regex that you provided for V will match against a folder that is V (ie ..\TVShows\V\V - s01e2.avi)
( [\\/] means folder separator in regex... or that's what stuckless is using it as here).

Using the format for the sage recording filename aboe you would need this to match it

    <match>
        <regex>[\\/]Castle-.*</regex>
        <title>Castle</title>
        <year>2009</year>
        <metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">83462</metadata>
    </match>

notice the .* in the regex... that means any character (.) any number of times(*).

Attached is my mediatitles.xml file that has some of the other shows you mentioned...

[VikingCrown]

Thanks Razr,

I was able to get Castle to work with your MediaTitles.xml file, however i can't seem to make V work. Here are all the combinations I tried:

	<match>
		<regex>[\\/]V-.*[\\/]</regex>
		<title>V (2009)</title>
		<metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>

	</match>

	<match>
		<regex>[\\/]V-.*[\\/]</regex>
		<title>V</title>
		<year>2009</year>
		<metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>

	</match>


	<match>
		<regex>[\\/]V-.*[\\/]</regex>
		<metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>

	</match>

thoughts?

[razrsharpe]

you need

    <match>
        <regex>[\\/]V-.*</regex>
        <title>V</title>
        <year>2009</year>
        <metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>

    </match>

you need to remove that last [\\/] in the regex

[bialio]

	<match>
		<regex>[\\/]V-</regex>
		<metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">94971</metadata>
	</match>

This is what I use and it seems to work.
btl.

[razrsharpe]

i guess technically you don't need the .* part...

[bialio]

Yeah, and interestingly I don't think I really need this entry in mine - I put it in the other day when I was adding some others, but my V episodes have always found their meta-data even before I put this entry into MediaTitles.xml.

btl.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

i guess technically you don't need the .* part...

That's correct. BMT basically uses a contains search on the file path.

[VikingCrown]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

you need to remove that last [\\/] in the regex

thanks!

not sure where that extra [\\/] came from, but it works perfectly!