oldschool 16 Posted January 19, 2014 Posted January 19, 2014 The latest version of MB3 (Version 3.0.5131.18923) does not pick up the episodes inside of seasons that are part of a collection. This was a feature I asked for a few months ago, and it was implemented and working beautifully until this latest version. Now, the season folders are shown, but the episodes inside the seasons are not showing in MBC or the web client.
oldschool 16 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) It says there are multiple files under each season, but the files aren't there. I'll upload screenshots soon. Edited January 19, 2014 by oldschool
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 This is what I would expect on the seasons listing:
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 But when I enter the season, it doesn't list any of the episodes:
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) I removed them and did a Metadata refresh. Should that resolve the problem? Edited January 20, 2014 by oldschool
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 This again is a series inside a collection. I didn't "setup" the media folder. When I refresh metadata, it's creating the series.xml files for each season.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 A while back I requested the ability to set the folder type inside the metadata, but I was told that I couldn't make a manual change to it. Has that been added now? Am I able to "force" a folder type in the metadata?
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 I'm not sure what you mean there. Does this help?
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 MB3 recreated collection.xml. It also has a series.xml in there as well for some reason. I'm using Media Center Master to help organize and move new items into the different folders. I'm not sure if that's giving a conflict as well.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 I shut down MCM. If I delete collection.xml, without having to do a metadata refresh, it will recreate that file within 20 seconds. I think it has to be MB3 creating that file.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 I did a feature request for this a while back, and I think this was a symptom of the same problem. That's why I thought this might be a regression error, because it used to work perfectly fine (Series inside a collection). Now it looks like MB3 is forcing this folder to be a collection because the parent is a collection?
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 This was working before I updated to the latest release, so something changed between the two releases.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 I could have sworn you guys fixed this problem before - meaning you intentionally changed the code to support a series inside a collection (or nested collection). I can't find it in my post history, but I requested this months ago, and it was implemented. I went to MCM and told them MB3 is supporting this feature, and MCM changed their code to support it as well. Are you saying that MB3 is now un-supporting this feature as of the last release?
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 Here's the weird thing - another folder with the exact same heirarchy (collection - collection - series) works, and MB3 is picking it up correctly, and I'm able to see episodes inside the series. MMC doesn't work, Chuggington does.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 OK. It's just this one folder that's causing a problem - the one series. I can't force it to read it as a series instead of a collection, and MB3 is overriding what I do when it is recreating the collection.xml file. What's the solution? Shut down MB3, delete the collection.xml file, and then restart and see whether the problem is recreated? I think that's maybe a bandaid (short term) fix, but I can do that maybe to troubleshoot this issue. I would think there might be a better long-term solution though, but that's up to you.
ebr 16169 Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 One thing I'm noticing that is different is that you have a Series named exactly the same as the containing collection folder. I don't think that should be a problem, but try changing that just in case. You'll also have to manually remove those collection.xml files that are in the series folders.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 Just out of curiosity, I removed the year from the parent folder's name (2006), deleted collection.xml from the series folder, and then refreshed metadata, and it worked. Now I'm able to see everything in that folder. That year in the folder name was from a while back, but once I deleted it, it picked up on the nested series without a hitch. I'm not sure what's going on in the background, but that might be something to look for (or recommend that the nested series not have the exact same name as the parent folder).
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 ebr - you're a genius!! I just did that and it worked. You beat me to the punch though.
oldschool 16 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 Thanks for all your help Luke and ebr! It's fixed now. I'll rename any parent folders that are identical to the child series folder names, and hopefully that will eliminate this problem from any other folders.
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