kornster 5 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hi All, Im using Media Browser server for Windows and the Square Theme in Media Browser Classic and Square uses a Landscape.jpg to show on the front page for the most recent content and if thats missing will only show the folder.png picture. I figured out how to fix this which is to use the metadata manager and "Refresh" the collection but ive found that doing so re-downloads the movie.xml file and overwrites my existing one. The problem with this is that my wife and i edit out own movie.xml file using Salami`s movie organizer so that i can remove the multiple Genre`s and just have one that`s relevant to the content we have added. Why you ask. Because we only want one relevant genre for our content instead of multiple of the same file appearing in multiple genre headings. My question is, is there a way to fetch just the landscape.jpg files and not any other files the refresh does? Regards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37053 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 on that same page in the metadata manager click the Images tab and then you can download individual images. The type of image you are looking for is called Thumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks Luke, I`ll give it a crack. So this prevents the Movie.xml file from being fetched/created? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hi Luke, Does this mean i have to do each piece of content one by one? I did what you said and im still not seeing the landscape.jpg downloading against my content. See attached Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Attachement didnt work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Would the "genre cleaner" plug in allow you to use the server metadata editor to archive the same result you are getting from salami? You would have to refresh the server in order to have those thumbs show would you not? In that case you naught run I to the genre issue anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) Hi chef, I assumed i would need to do a refresh as well to get the landscape.jpg to download for the content as well but im sure this has overwritten the movie.xml file before, or does the refresh download a mymovies.xml file? I cant recall Edited January 12, 2015 by kornster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Remember that the "landscape" image you are referring to is actually called "thumb" image. I could be wrong but I think Neo actually used "backdrop" images in the panels on the ehs. Have you got backdrop images stored locally on your computer? Have you got "thumb" images saved locally on your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8279 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 You can use "Advanced Refresh" and look at the drop down options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Sorry to answer your question above, mb uses movie.xml. If you refresh the media item, then yes I believe that it will overwrite your xml when saved. However, you can click on the "images" button in the metadata editor to download specific images for your collection and then press "save" This will not refresh your metadata and will save the image locally (if you have save content locally select in your server setup). If you need me to elaborate more please let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Thanks chef and Happy2Play. Im giving it a crack now just to see if it does indeed replace the movie.xml file on the refresh even though i have "download missing images" as per Happy2Play`s post. I`ve probably saved myself a little if things go pear shaped as i have renamed all the mymovies.xml to mymovies.backup before i created the movie.xml from the mymovies.xml with all the correct information. If the refresh does do the unthinkable i`ll have some backup solution that i can roll back on. I`ll report back as soon as ive left it for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Well i tried the refresh and it downloaded the landscape.jpg and also overwrote the movie.xml file. Perhaps this is a bug in MB Server? I should be able to batch rename mymovies.backup to mymovies.xml and then batch re-write movie.xml from the mymovie.xml file from here. I think i`ll just have to remember to create a backup of the mymovie from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37053 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 no, there's no bug but you're not losing any data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 We do not read or write mymovies.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 We do not read or write mymovies.xml i understand that ebr. My comment was that the metadata manager in MB server will fetch and overwrite the already movie.xml file i have for my content even though i tell it in advanced to only download missing images.I was just saying that im lucky that i still have copies of the mymovie.xml file`s so i can re-use those to restore the files to the way they where for the movie.xml files. Well that sounds confusing :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 @@kornster Rename one of your "landscape.jpg" to "backdrop.jpg" and see if it shows up on the ehs. I am still a confused as to why your collection is saving images a "landscape". I think that that is your issue...maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 @@kornster Rename one of your "landscape.jpg" to "backdrop.jpg" and see if it shows up on the ehs. I am still a confused as to why your collection is saving images a "landscape". I think that that is your issue...maybe. I`ve figured it out. The landscape.jpg wasnt downloading as i dont have MB Server set to automatically fetch metadata as i do it all myself. The confusing part which is all my fault is that I needed to refresh the collection with MB Server but this overwrites any existing movie.xml files. The positive side of this is that i keep a mymovies.bak file in all the folders before i make the movie.xml as Salami`s Movie Organizer makes a mymovie.xml file when i save data against my content. I`ve figured it out now and have it re-scanning the media library. Thanks for all the help even though i probably didnt make sense. i am after all a Network Admin :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8279 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) So you are saying if you do Advanced Refresh- (none or local refresh only), your movie.xml is getting overwritten? Edited January 13, 2015 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kornster 5 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 So you are saying if you do Advanced Refresh- (none or local refresh only), your movie.xml is getting overwritten? Yes it did as shown in my attachments 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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