2011-09-21, 02:42
demosthien Wrote:At the moment only metadata for one movie/show at a time can be fetched. How about a "Fetch For All" (metadata) option? So VMM just moves it's way through the files in the active module (movie/TV Shows/Anime) one by one. That way anyone with a large library or a lot of non-VMMed files could just set it and go make a coffee.
The problem I see with this is if;
a. there is no listing on the database/s,
b. a conflicted read occurs when the app can't identify the correct movie/show from a couple of similar ones and needs a manual search, or
c. an incorrect identification occurs.
For a. and b. the app could just skip these movies/shows (ensuring they're colour coded grey) and move to the next one in line until it completes the rest. Then it could display a message saying that "X movies/shows were not fully identified and will require personal attention." As they're grey it would be simple job to manually find and run the search for them.
But c. is trickier... It would require a manual check of the library. This is difficult because after VMM has changed the name of the movie/show in it's own list it there is nowhere you can see the path/filename. I expect most people have already got their files correctly named so they can see what the movie/show in Finder etc.
Maybe adding the path/filename to the main information window (just under the movie/show title?) would help here as users could then just work their way down the list (arrow key styleez) comparing the downloaded database information with the path/filename. If they find inconsistencies they can manually re-fetch the metadata.
It might be worth adding a pop-up warning on use of this action to notify the user that some files may be incorrectly identified and will require them to manually check each one etc.
This option already exists. Please check the file menu.
EDIT: also, from what I can tell (to try and answer your other questions) it pretty much just chugs along and ignores issues. I usually end up with a few that are still in a status of not having information and then I just manually search those. A couple times I had some that worked just by clicking on download metadata, so it must have been a connection issue at that point. So, aside from the message at the end, it appears to do what you were suggesting.
If it doesn't, post back so we can help troubleshoot.