Starkadius 219 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) Editing the series.xml whether manually through an editor (notepad++, notepad etc) or using a metadata editor such as metabrowser/MCM does not stay saved after a media library scan. I have been trying to batch edit TV shows by adding or changing actors and genres using methods described above but they keep getting erased. The only way they will remain intact is if the web client metadata manager is used and added one by one which is not feasible. MediaBrowser is currently not playing nice with external metadata editors. For the log provided I simply added one new actor in the series.xml using the following (random) example: <Person> <Name>Leslie Nielsen</Name> <Type>Actor</Type> <Role>Frank Drebin</Role> </Person> Server Configuration: Metadata > Basics > Download artwork and metadata from internet Disabled Metadata > Services > Disabled fetching for Series, seasons, episodes, people Metadata > Advanced > Unchecked everything under People Item configuration: <LockedFields>Name|Overview|Genres|OfficialRating|Cast|Backdrops</LockedFields> Regardless of if people/cast is locked or unlocked results are the same After a scan is completed, any changes made are gone and reverted back to the original. Even setting the series.xml as "read-only" after making changes it gets reverted. server-63556878478-x.txt Edited January 15, 2015 by Starkadius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8144 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) Was able to edit xml directly with notepad++ (with your settings listed above) but "Cast/People" had to be unlocked. With "Cast/People" locked no manual changes were reflected. Added Myself to 12 Monkeys Then used refresh. <Person> <Name>Myself</Name> <Type>Actor</Type> <Role>Happy2Play</Role> </Person> Unfortunately MCM's genre and actor tags where never updated for series.xml so they are incompatible with MBS. <Actors></Actors> <Genre></Genre> Edited January 15, 2015 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 533 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 are the xmls intended to be multi master with the database....ie changes go both ways ie changes to xml get ingested into db, changes in db get reflected to xml....is this how its intended to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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