Latest Movies includes specials

[Spaceboy 2573]

As the title suggests, on the latest builds of the server specials are included within the view of latest movies.i don't believe this was the case previously

 

 

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[Spaceboy 2573]

Ok, it's actually special features in the specials folder of a movie are being detected as media. Is there any way to stop this? I would think this folder should be excluded

 

 

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[techywarrior 689]

Yea, this definitely wasn't how it was before. It's actually pretty annoying as "specials" are now littering my Movie and TV sections. It's also trying to get artwork and meta data for them and it's causing a mess (especially when it thinks it finds a movie that it matches)

 

@@Luke since this was posted 2+ weeks ago and there was no response, can you take note and make sure that this is known, or if it's a change (doubt it) can you let us know how we should handle specials from now on.

Edited July 8, 2014 by techywarrior

[Luke 42078]

it's not known. a lot of people would be crying foul if this were a widespread issue. what is probably happening is the folder structure is not being recognized as a movie, thus causing the issue. So compare your folder structure to the wiki guidelines, and as always, provide more information:

 

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/

[techywarrior 689]

it's not known. a lot of people would be crying foul if this were a widespread issue. what is probably happening is the folder structure is not being recognized as a movie, thus causing the issue. So compare your folder structure to the wiki guidelines, and as always, provide more information:

 

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/

 

Hm, that's strange then because, at least in my case, the folders have been setup for a long time.

 

If the "movie" file was removed, even with the movie.xml file still present, would it cause the scan to no longer recognize the folder as a movie? I recently re-encoded a few movies and it's possible that the library scan ran between the time I deleted the old file and I put in the new file.

 

If that's the issue then I guess it's too limited a case to make code changes for. But if that is the case I would expect that after the movie file was put back in the specials would behave correctly. The issue is now probably that the specials folder has a movie.xml file in it.

 

Would it be possible (or is it even beneficial) to remove the movie.xml file from within the specials folder when it's detected as a specials folder? Or is the problem not simply that the movie.xml file exists now in the specials folder and it needs to be removed from the DB?

 

I'll play around with it a bit and see what works.

[Luke 42078]

correct, we don't resolve content based on the presence of metadata files. media only. there's a couple reasons for that - first, it has to work anyway if the metadata files aren't there, so checking for them isn't necessary. also, people who manually edit xml often place files in the wrong locations expecting certain results, which used to cause the server to go haywire, and we can't let that happen.

 

your second guess is also correct - metadata will be downloaded, but then when the movie file is restored, everything will be back to normal. albeit with the side effect of your specials folders being sprinkled with data files. yes you can remove those. it would not be a good idea for the server to do that, because, well first of all we don't delete anything without user interaction, and also, it will inevitably cause more harm than good.

[techywarrior 689]

Thanks Luke. I re-ran the library scan and it did correct the problem. I manually deleted the left over meta data and poster images, etc.

 

Not sure if that was the same issue as the OP but this was indeed what happened for me.

 

Totally understandable about not wanting to delete stuff. I would imagine that this is so rare that it's not worth creating a possible headache. Also, since the only real after-effect is some tiny jpg and xml files it probably won't even be noticed.

[Spaceboy 2573]

Yep same for me, I have hundreds of movies with specials and a few of them are showing up in the movie section. The conjuring and ted it was. Media centre master does all my moving and naming so no issues there. I note the live TV icons problem still hasn't been fixed either and I'm bored of waiting for that so I'm just going to nuke the library and start again. Not sure why I have to wait for a 2nd contributor to get a response though...

 

 

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Edited July 8, 2014 by Spaceboy