auto-organize question

[Starlionblue 82]

There is an easy way to handle this:

• Go to Metadata-Manager
• Select the series
• In the series details, scroll down to "Metadata Settings"
• In the two dropdowns, select the appropriate language/country
• Click "Save" at the top

From now on, all metadata will be acquired for the selected language. You can perform "Refresh" to refresh all data and images.

If metadata is available for the selected language, it will be downloaded and applied to the series and all parent items.

 

And even better: Auto-Organize is affected as well, so episode titles will be acquired for the selected language!

 

I could kiss you right now. This has been driving me nuts with shows that I have in two different languages.

 

Question though: Will auto-organize now understand which language version to put an episode in?

Edited January 31, 2016 by Starlionblue

[roberth58 8]

There is an easy way to handle this:

• Go to Metadata-Manager
• Select the series
• In the series details, scroll down to "Metadata Settings"
• In the two dropdowns, select the appropriate language/country
• Click "Save" at the top

From now on, all metadata will be acquired for the selected language. You can perform "Refresh" to refresh all data and images.

If metadata is available for the selected language, it will be downloaded and applied to the series and all parent items.

 

And even better: Auto-Organize is affected as well, so episode titles will be acquired for the selected language!

 

Thanks, I now have my metadata for Virage Nord. Any chance you could wave your magic wand and make auto organize understand srt files. Thankfully for now filebot does so I won't have to rename them manually. 

[softworkz 5066]

I could kiss you right now. This has been driving me nuts with shows that I have in two different languages.

 

Question though: Will auto-organize now understand which language version to put an episode in?

 

Yes, it should. There is an inheritance logic in the libary tree. Once you have explicitly set the language for a series, it applies to all children (like seasons and episodes) as long as those don't have any specific values configured.

 

Here's another tip:

 

Inheritance also works for settings made at the library level ("Media Folders").

If you set the language at the parent level ("TV Series"), it will be valid for all series within that folder, so you won't need to manually set the language for series individually.

 

And finally one more idea you might like:

 

You can also create and use *two* separate library folders for series: One for series with english metadata ("TV Series") and another one for series with french metadata handling ("French TV").

This way, you can select metadata handling just by copying content to one or the other folder.

[softworkz 5066]

Thanks, I now have my metadata for Virage Nord. Any chance you could wave your magic wand and make auto organize understand srt files. Thankfully for now filebot does so I won't have to rename them manually. 

 

At this time, auto-organize does not handle secondary files like subtitles. This sounds like a reasonable feature for future development, though.

 

What is currently working though, is auto-downloading of subtitles. Emby might not copy the subtitle file during auto-organize, but it can auto-download subtitles for all episodes if configured correctly...

[roberth58 8]

At this time, auto-organize does not handle secondary files like subtitles. This sounds like a reasonable feature for future development, though.

 

What is currently working though, is auto-downloading of subtitles. Emby might not copy the subtitle file during auto-organize, but it can auto-download subtitles for all episodes if configured correctly...

 

There are 2  problems with auto downloading of subtitles. There a lot of very bad subtitle files on the net. How would you know that there is an excellent subtitle file ripped from a dvd available when the auto downloader pulled down a machine translated file which is usually very funny to read but not very good at translating. 2 what if the subtitles you need are not on opensubtitles.org? Need english subtitles for bedrag, not on opensubtitles but are available on subscene.

[softworkz 5066]

There are 2  problems with auto downloading of subtitles. There a lot of very bad subtitle files on the net. How would you know that there is an excellent subtitle file ripped from a dvd available when the auto downloader pulled down a machine translated file which is usually very funny to read but not very good at translating. 2 what if the subtitles you need are not on opensubtitles.org? Need english subtitles for bedrag, not on opensubtitles but are available on subscene.

 

Robert, you are absolutely right! There are often multiple video versions and I've encountered quite a few situations by myself where the auto-downloaded subtitles didn't match with regards to timing, speed or cut version.

That's why I didn't write "It's good as it is" but instead "This sounds like a reasonable feature for future development".

There are quite a number of issues calling for improvement in the auto-organize feature section.

 

Let's face them one by one!

[darbid 1]

And back to the topic. Searching for MASH or M*A*S*H or M-A-S-H still does not work.

[darbid 1]

It is searchable in thetvdb. I don’t suppose these * are being lost by code.

[Luke 42078]

We'll take a look at this, thanks.

[daedalus 434]

And back to the topic. Searching for MASH or M*A*S*H or M-A-S-H still does not work.

sry can't reproduce this on latest server 4.2.0.15 beta with plugin 1.4.9.0, all you variants work here, also with different languages

 

[darbid 1]

I’m on the latest stable version. So when the beta is released I can try again.