(2021-07-30, 04:43)shedrock Wrote: Can someone please shed some light on this for me, it would be greatly appreciated.
@
axlt2002 please correct me if I am wrong.
This addon requires IMDB ID's in the database to function.
If IMDB's do not exist in the database, it will use the TMDB id to look up the movie/show/episode and retrieve the IMDB ID
stored at TMDB (IMDB ID's are
never retrieved from IMDB)
Once found, it goes to IMDB and, using the pre-retrieved IMDB ID, it then looks up the rating.
It does not do this with
TVDB anymore as explained by axlt2002 in previous posts.
In v3.x and now the new v5.x of the add-on, if IMDB ID's do not exist in the local database and at TMDB, then nothing could be looked up. This seems to only be a problem with
Episodes as contributors seem to place more effort in adding the IMDB ID for Movies and TV Shows at TMDB.
The version 4.x of this add-on used a faster, but less accurate method of updating ratings for episodes. It would look up the
TV Show (not the episodes) at IMDB, then bulk download all the ratings for each episode as listed then apply those ratings to your episodes, so no iMDB ID's were required for episodes. Sounds right... but
if your episode list did not match the list at IMDB, then ratings were being applied to the wrong episodes eg if you use DVD Order, or some other order that differed to the order at IMDB, or if the episode count is different like when the pilot episode is shown as 1 episode at IMDB and two episodes at TMDB. This is why you perceived the addon to still work, and why it does not work now.
I notice there is a setting in the add-on named
Ratings update mode with a choice of
Episode or
Season. I have a suspicion this allows you to change which method you use to update episodes. If you don't want to update the IMDB ID's at TMDB and rescrape, then set it to
Season and check if it works.
All the current Kodi scrapers download IMDB ID's (when available) in addition to the ID of the provider (TVDB, TMDB, TV Maze)
If you are using
NFO files (wiki) then you need to ensure you have correct ID's in the nfo files. They look like this...
xml:
<uniqueid type="imdb">tt1190634</uniqueid>
<uniqueid type="tmdb" default="true">76479</uniqueid>
<uniqueid type="tvdb">355567</uniqueid>
I see so many nfo files that have the UniqueID's missing, or using the wrong format shown below.
xml:
***** THESE ARE WRONG ****
<id>76479</id>
<imdb>tt76479</imdb>
<tmdb>76479</tmdb>
<tvdb>256987</tvdb>
<uniqueid type="default" default="true">76479</uniqueid>
