xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 How does gamebrowser scrape for metadata. It used to be in Gamebrowser II that it would use the directory title. Now it seems that it's looking at the contents of said directory. It doesn't work right for multi disc games. S.
Luke 40079 Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 Please supply more information about the problem you're having: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted March 30, 2014 Author Posted March 30, 2014 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Um-u0FewAoZkstM2N1T1d6MDQ/edit?usp=sharing I'm using Gamebrowser 2.9..5184.24604 like I said its using the file name instead of the folder name to search for metadata. Above is my log file S.
Luke 40079 Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 how about some screen shots of your directory structure?
Redshirt 1487 Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 I don't know that screenshots will help. Although GB can detect multi-disc games, none of the clients provide a way to select different discs
Luke 40079 Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 oh so that's it. the server is detecting them correctly but the clients just haven't added support for them yet. that might make sense.
Redshirt 1487 Posted March 31, 2014 Posted March 31, 2014 @@ebr I'd love your input here. Without core support there are only a few options available to me. I could: 1. Show a multi-disc popup in the playback controller. It's an easy enough solution, but adds unforeseen situations as I have to account for the user backing out of an already running playback controller 2. Provide my own custom game details screen. Something I'm loathe to do as it seems more users whined that it didn't match their current theme. With core support, it could be a popup dialog that themes could skin if they were inclined.
Redshirt 1487 Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 I knew the conversation would go that route so I guess I jumped the gun. That naming convention should be valid assuming I understand you.. If hard-braces aren't being stripped before metadata lookup then that's a bug. Just so I'm clear can you do what Luke originally suggested and provide a screenshot of how one of these games is laid out in explorer.
ebr 15665 Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 I'm lost. The original question was about metadata gathering but now we're talking about multi-disc games and playback...?
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted April 1, 2014 Author Posted April 1, 2014 No Redshirt. I'm kinda glad you jumped the gun, but like I said a popup to choose the multiple disc would be awesome. Okay back to the issue at hand: So you see in the Final Fantasy VII directory I have the Images titled as Disc 1,2, & 3. So when it tries to get the metadata it sees Disc 1 instead of Final Fantasy VII. Here's another example: Here when it looks at Loaded its looking for metadata for Loaded (Track 01) instead of just Loaded. Is there anyway to change it back so it uses directory name instead of the directory contents. Thanks, S. P.S. Please allow popups for multi disc or multi file games.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted April 1, 2014 Author Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) lol...well multi disc support was on my list to ask anyway, but to answer Redshirt I wouldn't complain about a custom details screen or just a popup, if it didn't match my theme as long as we got one in the first place. Now on to my issue. I will use playstation as my example. So I have one game that I have the directory named: Hot Shots Golf. The file inside the directory is named: Hot Shots Golf [sCUS-94188]. So when the server is looking for metadata it is looking for "Hot Shots Golf [sCUS-94188]" instead of just "Hot Shots Golf". I know you could say, "well you could just rename the file", which is true but a lot of playstation games have multiple tracks in the directory and when you have multiple discs it becomes worse cause then the server looks for a game called "Disc 1" instead of "Final Fantasy VII". (The games are just examples. This happens to all the games) I hope this makes sense. S. Edited March 31, 2014 by xXSagaiaXx
ebr 15665 Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 Yeah, that's a totally different issue than multi-disc playback. Looks to me like we should be using the folder name for lookups just like we do with movies.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Posted April 2, 2014 Will multi disc playback be supported in the future? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
ebr 15665 Posted April 2, 2014 Posted April 2, 2014 Will multi disc playback be supported in the future? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Probably - after we flesh out all of our alternate version logic on the server.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) Awesome! Thanks ebr Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Edited April 2, 2014 by xXSagaiaXx
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) Now that multi disc support has been added (thanks everyone) is there anyway to get this fixed! This is a major issue keeping me from playing my games cause I cant. S. Edited May 25, 2014 by xXSagaiaXx
Redshirt 1487 Posted May 25, 2014 Posted May 25, 2014 Try this version. You may need to delete your C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\data\library.db first so that the games can be re-resolved.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted May 26, 2014 Author Posted May 26, 2014 Nope, I deleted the library.db before I copied over the new gamebrowser.dll. I let it repopulate the games and its still showing the same. Its still fetching the metadata based on the file name in the directory instead of fetching the metadata based on the directory name.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted May 27, 2014 Author Posted May 27, 2014 Okay here's what I dont understand at the beginning of this post: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/7426-gamebrowser-classic-version-30039/ @@Redshirt showed how he had his file structure for Final Fantasy VII and media browser found all the metadata. I tried the same way and I got nothing. Also, I have parasite eve named nothing like the Final Fantasy VII and it found the metadata for that with no problem. S.
Redshirt 1487 Posted May 28, 2014 Posted May 28, 2014 The only thing I can think of is that you have a bunch of game.xml files which would defeat the purpose of deleting the library db as all the same info would just get copied back into the db. I've never seen the issue you describe. I had hoped adding .cue would sort it out, but it hasn't.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted May 28, 2014 Author Posted May 28, 2014 would the game xml files be stored anywhere else besides the game directory?
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted June 5, 2014 Author Posted June 5, 2014 I hate to be a pest about this, but I this issue still being looked at? Thanks, S.
Redshirt 1487 Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 I don't know what to suggest right now. I can't figure out what could be happening. Over the weekend, I'll force my game library to rebuild and see if there has been an issue introduced since I put my current library together.
xXSagaiaXx 25 Posted July 8, 2014 Author Posted July 8, 2014 @@Redshirt where would the game xml files be stored so i can delete them and see if I can get this problem fixed. Thanks, S.
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