2013-03-24, 19:27
I'm not much of a python coder, but I had an idea for a xbmc addon that I thought I would be cool, and thought I would share and see if any coders would take an interest:
I've noticed that often when a show or movie is first added to XBMC, often the metadata available from thetvdb or moviedb is often limited or incomplete. However, after a day or two the crowd-sourced data improves a great deal. It can be a difficult, manual process to update the items with the updated metadata after they have been initially added. I'd love to have a script to solve this problem.
I'm not sure of the most efficient way to do it, but he idea would be to have a script which would refresh metadata of any added item a configurable amount of time after the item was initially added (default being like 48 hours).
I imagine that implementing something like this is much more complicated than describing it, but I'd be happy to support/test anyone who may have an interest and an idea of how to do it.
I've noticed that often when a show or movie is first added to XBMC, often the metadata available from thetvdb or moviedb is often limited or incomplete. However, after a day or two the crowd-sourced data improves a great deal. It can be a difficult, manual process to update the items with the updated metadata after they have been initially added. I'd love to have a script to solve this problem.
I'm not sure of the most efficient way to do it, but he idea would be to have a script which would refresh metadata of any added item a configurable amount of time after the item was initially added (default being like 48 hours).
I imagine that implementing something like this is much more complicated than describing it, but I'd be happy to support/test anyone who may have an interest and an idea of how to do it.