BMT 4.9.12 Released (Mainly enhancements + few bug fixes)

[stuckless]

Here's the release notes for BMT/Phoenix


4.9.12
* Added Batch Metadata Editor (can now batch edit multiple files)
* Added RAW Metadata Editor to edit any Metadata field for a media item
* Can download series only fanart
* Fixed fanart download bug for manual fanart
* Can enter runtime as '### mins' and shows runtime in minutes
* Original Air Date now shows hh:mm
* Can enter Original Air Date as a number or 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM'
* Hides the view panel when editing metadata
* Basic 'back' button navigation when in the Edit Metadata panel
* Configuration Help now shows more information in the help dialog.
* Fixed bug with support request generator that prevented it from created support requests
* Home Videos now correctly uses semi-colon instead of comma
* Home Videos now uses case insensitive paths
* Fixed bug where genres was not using the new Sage7 / separator. Genres will now use /
* Added "Add File Matcher" from the metadata editor panel to quickly add an entry to the MediaTitles.xml

Phoenix 2.3.24
* Added phoenix_time_ apis
* Added Phoenix_beta_ apis for beta updating
* Can download series only fanart (ie, episode fails will still fetch fanart for series)
* Can download series only fanart for Airings (ie, epg items)
* Fixed bug with filesystem view source
* Added scroped configuration options
* Refactored Phoenix Configuration
* Fixed manual download fanart bug.
* Added more retry conditions for failed automatic lookups


Good luck. And remember, when you update the web ui, if you get an error when you browse to the web ui, then clear your browser caches and the errors should go away. Typically after each new release i hit shift+reload button on the web page a few times, just to make sure the new javascript gets loaded into the browser.

[stuckless]

1. I've added Batch editing to BMT. When you are viewing a folder, you can click on "Batch Edit" and make metadata changes to ALL item in that folder and it's child folders. ONLY the metadata for fields that you enter data will be applied. So while there are LOTS of fields to edit, if all you edit is the Year, then ONLY the year will be updated for ALL items. So, as you can see, I've finally but the "Batch" in Batch Metadata Tools

2. I've make the Batch Editor available to a single item as well. So, when you are in the metadata editor, you can click on "RAW Metadata" to edit any metadata field. When you click save ONLY the fields that you've modified as actually updated.

3. I've added a very simply dialog to the metadata editor panel, "Add Matcher". When you click the button it will inspect the current field and suggest a match that can be added to the MediaTitles.xml. If you change the file or folder regex, then DO NOT add the [\\/] portions, since that will be added automatically. ie, for a File matcher, if the value is "CSI", then I will end up storing "[\\/]CSI". This is done so that the users don't necessarily need to worry about part of the expression.

4. When you long press on a media item, and click "View Video Thumbnails" from the menu, it will now use the new 7.1 api for generating thumbnails from the mediafile, and so, mplayer is no longer required.... (not that many people probably used that feature, but it no longer required mplayer)

[Slugger]

Just upgraded BMT and loading the web interface gets null errors for everything. Clicking Browse gives errors about null categories and the like. Can't find anything in the sagetv_0.txt log nor anything in logs/*.log

Anywhere else I should be looking?

Thanks.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Slugger

Just upgraded BMT and loading the web interface gets null errors for everything. Clicking Browse gives errors about null categories and the like. Can't find anything in the sagetv_0.txt log nor anything in logs/*.log

Anywhere else I should be looking?

Thanks.

I'm willing to bet it's browser cache issue. When I upgraded I got the same issue. After reloading the browser app by pressing shift+refresh a few times, it all worked. If that doesn't work, then the other reason could be that the plugin didn't extract correctly. You could try restarting the sagetv server, and see if that helps (I've seen that issue before as well).

[Slugger]

Cache problem it is! Though it was 8-10 shift/refresh clicks before it finally loaded up.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Slugger

Cache problem it is! Though it was 8-10 shift/refresh clicks before it finally loaded up.

Browsers really hate to reload the caches I'm considering using a dynamic url for the css and javascript files so that they never get cached. It seems that this happens to me after each new release as well.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by stuckless

1. I've added Batch editing to BMT. When you are viewing a folder, you can click on "Batch Edit" and make metadata changes to ALL item in that folder and it's child folders. ONLY the metadata for fields that you enter data will be applied. So while there are LOTS of fields to edit, if all you edit is the Year, then ONLY the year will be updated for ALL items. So, as you can see, I've finally but the "Batch" in Batch Metadata Tools

2. I've make the Batch Editor available to a single item as well. So, when you are in the metadata editor, you can click on "RAW Metadata" to edit any metadata field. When you click save ONLY the fields that you've modified as actually updated.

3. I've added a very simply dialog to the metadata editor panel, "Add Matcher". When you click the button it will inspect the current field and suggest a match that can be added to the MediaTitles.xml. If you change the file or folder regex, then DO NOT add the [\\/] portions, since that will be added automatically. ie, for a File matcher, if the value is "CSI", then I will end up storing "[\\/]CSI". This is done so that the users don't necessarily need to worry about part of the expression.

4. When you long press on a media item, and click "View Video Thumbnails" from the menu, it will now use the new 7.1 api for generating thumbnails from the mediafile, and so, mplayer is no longer required.... (not that many people probably used that feature, but it no longer required mplayer)

GREAT release... glad to see the BATCH functions. I can see this coming in handy as I know I wished I could do this a number of times...

And the Matcher will be a nice addition too... just simplifies the process and will be much better for new users.

Thanks for the great tool that just keeps getting better!

k

[stuckless]

I've uploaded a new phoenix build. This is a very small release that adds sagex-api 7.1.5.5 to the dependencies.