I am currently testing the new version and it works very well!
I especially love being able to write all available ratings in the nfo now.
Kodi supports all ratings completely native, I have now rewritten the skin so that the .nfo is used and not on SkinHelper live scraper.
It is still a bit provisional, but it shows nicely that it works very well on the .nfo.
That's what it looks like in a Top250 movie.
https://ibb.co/evVr0K
With a good movie
https://ibb.co/iTZZLK
For a "normal" movie
https://ibb.co/fgsX7z
In a bad movie
https://ibb.co/gFF27z
If no ratings are available (for e.g. youtube fan movies) I have instead of 0.0 to show a text output built.
https://ibb.co/hbwELK
The blue marks are still data on SkinHelper real-time scraper
The yellow markings are those that have now been taken over by the .nfo:
https://ibb.co/ijQc7z
The Skin loading the DialogVideoInfo.xml now much smoother and the traffic in the background is now much less.
Very nice!
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Regarding scraping and data, I have now made some samples:
With some movies no rotten entry in the .nfo created (because no entry exists online)
Sometimes, however, a .nfo entry was created with blank data
(<Value> 0.0 </ value> <votes> N / A </ votes>)
Most likely it is that then a rotten online entry exists, but still no ratings were submitted.
I also checked how the .nfo spellings are taken over by kodi.
If there is no data, or the data is empty, or "N / A" in the votes, it always seems to pass "0" or "0.0".
But I think it's a Kodi internal mistake I noticed:
The IMDB/TMDB ratings and votes always worked separately.
It was possible rating 6.0 with 0 votes as well as rating 0.0 with 1000 votes.
With rotten there are also some special cases like here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi...n_Tomatoes
But with a movie with rating 0.0 with 1000 votes, it outputs 0 votes.
If, on the other hand, the movie has a rating of 0.1 with 1000 votes, then it correctly returns 0.1.
Otherwise, a rating 6.0 with 0 votes works.
I will try to contact the Team Kodi coder for this.
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In a few releases in the future it would be may possible do the ratings and votes in MC more "manageable".
There are 4 sources that are available and that Kodi can read for movies.
In addition, to differentiate between Default rating and extra "DialogVideoInfo" ratings, i call it extra ratings
For example, to get all the ratings in the .nfo you have to experiment a bit. In order to get the TMDB ratings into the .nfo (not as a main rating, but as an extra rating) I first had to use TMDB as a main scraper, only then did I get an entry into the extra ratings, and only afterwards did I have to Scrap with IMDB scraper as default over it.
- Unification of the function and arrangement of the scrape rating and votes options in "Rescrape Specific" and "Batch Rescraper Wizard"
- both, put checkmark division rating votes "rottentomatoes, metacritic, imdb, tmdb" more clearly together.
- distinguishing what choosen as main ratings and extraratings, or also want some extra-ratings without scraping it as main rating first. for example i want tmdb ratings only in extraratings but not as main rating. Conversely, also will not get IMDB ratings in the extra ratings until scrape them for the first time as main rating.
- For movies that (for inexplicable reasons) still have no registered TMDB ID, will also have bad chances for tmdb ratings, maybe an option also in Batch Rescrape Wizard TMDB ID's that are missing to complete or in the TableView.
And... does the only scrape empty fields Batch Rescrape also with all rating and votes?
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The default rating always includes the extra ratings "default =" true ">".
I almost believe that Kodi takes this data as a default rating, and the last, the main rating in .nfo (<rating> 6.4 </ rating> <votes> 217 </ votes>)
is just a copy for compatibility for old Kodi versions.
Is that possible?
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It works great! Now I will take back a closer look at (for me annoying topic) movie set management.
Great Thanks!
. Thanks for the latest release. I think the idea of using individual movie folders in the sets central folder is the way to go. Artwork Beef seems to be the driving force behind all that is art. Still looking at TV renaming (I hope)? Last thing and I really don't think it's a MC problem. Quite often when exiting and then restarting, I get a MC is already running message. I have to open task manager and close MC item in background processes. Any idea what might be wrong on my end? (Just looking for some ideas). As always, thanks.