MikeyMan 8 Posted January 18, 2014 Posted January 18, 2014 Good afternoon, I was wondering if it is possible to set up a folder that isn't filled with metadata. I'm asking this for my collection of concert video's. Some of them have quite peculiar naming. For instance: Great Performances One Night with Rod Stewart (episode 2005) i'd rather have this one named "Rod Stewart - Great Performances One Night (2005)" so that it is sorted for the artist. (R for Rod Stewart in stead of G for great performances) Since i think this would be difficult, i'd rather not have this metadata. Is that possible for just the folder with concerts?
ebr 16169 Posted January 18, 2014 Posted January 18, 2014 Give the media folder a type of "Home Videos" and it won't attempt to fetch metadata for it. Is that what you were asking?
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Posted January 19, 2014 That's exactly what i was looking for! Thanks!
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 Looked good, but wasn't really a solution... It still keeps fetching metadata and creating movie.xml's... Anything else i can do?
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 How does it know how to call the example concert? It still displays the concert (which i called Rod Stewart - Live .....) as "Great Performances Live...".
Luke 42077 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 perhaps the movie xmls are leftover from before you changed the type to home videos. if that's the case it will require some hand editing to clean up but i can promise that it's not going to go out to the internet
Luke 42077 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 home videos might create movie.xml when the items get saved, but the data isnt' coming from the itnernet
BATTLE DONKEY 98 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Why not just change the sorting name to rod stewart great performances? Like that u are fetching the metadata if there is some available and it also gets sorted by the artist name also, in this case rod stewart. If u change the sort name it will ignore the great performances part of the name and just use whatever u type into the box
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Posted January 21, 2014 That would be an option, but i have around 300 concerts at the moment. Not looking forward to manually edit the lot.
BATTLE DONKEY 98 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Dont know what to tell you, either way you have your work cut out for you because you will either have to manually change the sorting name for your concerts or you will have to manually get your own metadata the way you were asking. Automation is a wonderful thing but you can't expect the server to do everything for everyone's particular needs, maybe in due time but remember its still in its infancy even tho it already has many features that other products dont offer. I'm not trying to nag, but my option seems like the easier of the 2 choices, to me at least. Put in a little effort on your own end, a few titles here n there when you have spare time n it will pay off. I just redid my entire music collection a while back so I know it can be tedious but it pays off in the end because u will get the look and layout u want
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Posted January 21, 2014 That's exactly my point; I do not even want the metadata. Everything was working fine without. However; at some point metadata was fetched, and now it's not working as I want. I'll try to delete all metadata again yesterday, but somehow it seems that even with home-video it fetches it again.
ebr 16169 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Do you have any other programs like MetaBrowser or Media Center Master?
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Posted January 24, 2014 No i don't.... Just Mediabrowser for this folder... What i'm running into now is that i can't properly delete the metadata somehow... I deleted all movie.xml files, and deleted the folder from mediabrowser. After that, i set up the folder for Home Video's, but the old fetched info is still used. How can i clear that out?
MikeyMan 8 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Posted January 24, 2014 A complete rescan won't be much of a problem i guess? Where can i find that dbase?
Luke 42077 Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 Unfortunately there's no easy way to do that, aside from manual corrections in the editor. (Easy, but tedious). I will look into a possible reset button in the web client, but for now, a quick hack is to clear out all existing xml files, and rename a folder. If the folder gets a different path it will nto use the saved information in the database. Alternatively you can delete the database file, but that will result in a complete library scan.
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