Help with mediatitles.xml, please?

[silkshadow]

So I am working with BMT today. I read that BMT doesn't work well with (<year>) for TV show names and I read all the docs on MediaTitles.xml. So I am working with a test case right now "Archer (2009)".

My files are arranged like:

\\<server name>\media\TV\Animated\Archer (2009)\Season 01\Archer (2009) - S01E01 - Mole Hunt.mkv

(import path is \\<server name>\media)

Here is what I tried so far:

1) Manually created MediaTitles.xml and put it in userdata\Phoenix\scrapers\ it looks like this:

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer (2009)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

1a) I know there is a refresh option in BMT, but my v5 experience with Sage tells me to just go ahead and restart the service instead.

1b) Then I navigate to the Archer folder via vfs ("Sage Video Imports by folder"). I am looking at folders Season 01, Season 02, Season 03, and Specials.

1c) I hit the update metadata button chose: scan all subfolders and update metadata (only these 2)

1d) A little window opens up on the bottom left, its scanning. When its done I get total failed 37. I click that and it lists out every episode that failed which is all of them.

1e) There are no new properties files created (I have this option enabled). Its just not matching.

2) Try the above again, this time with MediaTitles:

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer (2009) - S</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

3) tried it again with:

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer </regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

4) Then I discovered the "Add matcher" button (man, this program is amazing in its UI detail!). Figured out how it worked. So I deleted my MediaTitles.xml and let BMT generate it. It created:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE titles>

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer (2009) - S</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

Still not matching.

5) Tried:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE titles>

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer </regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

6) and:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE titles>

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer (2009)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

Ok, so I've been trying to work this out myself, and searching here, but I am coming up empty. My brain is clearly missing something. Its probably something dumb. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

[stuckless]

You've done everything that I would have asked you to do, and then some I'll add a test case for you file name and see what happens in my env. I'll try to get back to you today.

[stuckless]

So, your first instinct was right

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer (2009)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

but... With regex, brackets need to be escaped...

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Archer \(2009\)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">110381</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

Of course, that also means there's a bug in the BMT media titles generator, since it didn't escape the brackets for you either

[silkshadow]

Thank you again, so much! I knew my brain was missing something dumb . I know you've heard it a lot (I read it many times today searching this forum), but your work on this plug in is nothing short of amazing. The detail is incredible. Thank you for BMT!

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by silkshadow

Thank you again, so much! I knew my brain was missing something dumb . I know you've heard it a lot (I read it many times today searching this forum), but your work on this plug in is nothing short of amazing. The detail is incredible. Thank you for BMT!

Thanks. You've been away for awhile... but BMT has come a long way from its humble command line beginnings

[silkshadow]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Thanks. You've been away for awhile... but BMT has come a long way from its humble command line beginnings

That is an understatement .