2009-01-04, 22:34
Hi there,
OK, this is quite a bunch of whishes in one place but I guess this stuff is related enough to be suggested as one.
Here the details:
First of all I'd like to be able to do an update of an existing entry. That is, all metadata that was scraped before should be updated but all 'local' stuff should be kept. In particular the seen-flag should not be deleted! In which way other information is actually marked as local I don't know, but this directly leads to the next point.
I'd like to do some simple editing of an entry and don't want to fire up an external application like sqlitespy or sthg else for that. So a simple in-place form would be enough for that. Of course, this information should afterwards not be updated by the scraper again. But only this info. If possible.
Here wo go to the next point: I'd like to use more than one scraper for my collection. This has not to be realized as a multi-scraper-scraper. I have no problem in sometimes telling my collection to use another scraper. But actually if I do, it only looks for information on movies that have no infos at all. But I'd like to do this as an update, so I could fetch all available infos from the relevant servers after some time.
And last not least I'd like to prevent the scraper (or xbmc itself) to update infos for a particular medium time and again. There are some files in my collection, that don't get correctly resolved by the scraper[1] and every time I delete them from the database, the next time the scraper runs, the wrong details are back again. Therefore I'd like to set a mark on these files to prevent them form being scraped again. This should be antiquated when the other points are being realized but until then, this is a quite serious issue, at least for me.
[1] little explanation: there are some documentaries in my collection which have the same name like a movie for example, but for the documentary there is no info in any of the usable servers. So I always get the info for the same named movie presented.
EDIT: I split off some parts and linked the original text against the new thread. For discussion on these parts please follow the links. The third part is already discussed in this thread.
OK, this is quite a bunch of whishes in one place but I guess this stuff is related enough to be suggested as one.
Here the details:
First of all I'd like to be able to do an update of an existing entry. That is, all metadata that was scraped before should be updated but all 'local' stuff should be kept. In particular the seen-flag should not be deleted! In which way other information is actually marked as local I don't know, but this directly leads to the next point.
I'd like to do some simple editing of an entry and don't want to fire up an external application like sqlitespy or sthg else for that. So a simple in-place form would be enough for that. Of course, this information should afterwards not be updated by the scraper again. But only this info. If possible.
Here wo go to the next point: I'd like to use more than one scraper for my collection. This has not to be realized as a multi-scraper-scraper. I have no problem in sometimes telling my collection to use another scraper. But actually if I do, it only looks for information on movies that have no infos at all. But I'd like to do this as an update, so I could fetch all available infos from the relevant servers after some time.
And last not least I'd like to prevent the scraper (or xbmc itself) to update infos for a particular medium time and again. There are some files in my collection, that don't get correctly resolved by the scraper[1] and every time I delete them from the database, the next time the scraper runs, the wrong details are back again. Therefore I'd like to set a mark on these files to prevent them form being scraped again. This should be antiquated when the other points are being realized but until then, this is a quite serious issue, at least for me.
[1] little explanation: there are some documentaries in my collection which have the same name like a movie for example, but for the documentary there is no info in any of the usable servers. So I always get the info for the same named movie presented.
EDIT: I split off some parts and linked the original text against the new thread. For discussion on these parts please follow the links. The third part is already discussed in this thread.
