Home movies - 'date added' metadata present, but 'year' missing

[Gui76 6]

Hi,

 

I have a folder full of home videos, filmed with a camcorder.

In my library I see and play them all.

 

What is missing, though, is the 'year' metadata field.

If I click on any single video/ edit metadata, I see it has a 'Date added' field, which looks right.

It does NOT have a 'year' field, though.

 

That's very unpractical, because as a result I cannot use the filter function to show me only the videos of 2017 for example.

 

How can I have the 'year' field automatically populated using the info contained in the 'date added' field?

 

Thanks

Edited September 23, 2019 by Gui76

[arche 177]

The "year" field should be below the "release date" when you scroll down in the edit metadata box.

 

Edited September 23, 2019 by arche

[Gui76 6]

Hi,

 

I see the fields when I scroll down, but they are blank

 

Example of the metadata extracted by emby, as shown in the "Edit metadata" window:

Date added: 12.06.2010, 19:46:03
Release date: dd.mm.yyyy
Year:

[ebr 16184]

We don't currently do this but perhaps we should for home videos...

[Luke 42079]

Yea it's not a bad idea, although sometimes these will have embedded metadata for the date it was taken.

[Gui76 6]

with my home videos, 'Date added' is the date at which I recorded the movie. The one I care about.

Depending on how the videos were generated it might be different, indeed.

 

To make sure it works all the time, what about doing something like this

if (year is provided by the video) or (year is not null - has been set by the user for example) -> do not touch
else if ('release date' is provided by the video) -> extract the year from there, and set the year field accordingly
else if ('date added' is provided by the video) -> extract the year from there, and set the year field accordingly

[Luke 42079]

yes that is possible.

[Gui76 6]

Great!

 

How do you guys do to track those kind of future improvements? Want me to raise a feature request somewhere?

 

Regarding implementation details, I thought of maybe another way to solve such "problems", but in a more generic manner.

 

Today, if the "year" field is set, the user will be able to use a filter to say "year == 2017", which would already be awesome.

The even better way would be to modify the filter screen itself, and for fields which are dates, to have the possibility to specify a comparison operator as well.

So the user would be able to make a filter for "date created >= 01.01.2017"

Ideally, queries supporting simple wildcards like "date created == *.07.2017" or "*.*.2017" would also be supported, but that might be too complicated to implement, not sure.

This would obviously be a bigger change, but IMHO worth it as improved filter capabilities like that would allow users to make more powerful queries, in general.

[Luke 42079]

@@Happy2Play can convert this to a feature request. Thanks.