2011-10-05, 13:59
That's quite the long post, and a bit hard to read here and there. ^^;
Let's see...
After starting a manual search, selecing the right movie/show and having downloaded new information, it suddenly throws up an error message?
When and how do you experience this 'zero object error'?
If you have any more information available, please let me know.
You should be able to find a movie by it's IMDB ID, by entering the IMDB ID directly into the searchfield when doing a manual search, however it still uses TMDB for getting information using the IMDB ID, since I can't currently scrape all that much data using imdbapi.com, so if the movie is not in TMDB at all, it still won't find it.
The manual search dialog is only used for scanning one item a time? if you're using the mass scan for movies / tv shows, it'll return the first item found, even if it's the wrong item, so it won't show up a dialog here.
So why would you need a file path here?
I'll put the idea about adding a mass scan for downloading first available arts into my ideas list.
The 'download metadata for all' movies/tv shows actually only downloads metadata for movies that don't have any yet, and if you want to download information for a movie in the list, it's easier and possibly more stable to do them one by one.
If an item is wrongly recognised during a mass download for metadata, you can select the item and click on 'download metadata' or on 'manual search' to search for the right item, this is basically your 'switch movie' function.
'Sets' support is planned for the next version.
It's already using some IMDB data such as 'rating', 'votes' and 'genre' for tv shows, but the imdbapi.com API which I'm using does not provide a lot of information, so TMDB and TVDB are used by default, and enriched with *some* IMDB data using this imdbapi.
A file is either a movie or a tv show, even if it's got a relation with a tv show. IMDB ID's are added to the NFO files in either cases, but there's no real way to link them, you can't look up a movie on the TVDB or a tv show on TMDB.
I hope this answers most of your questions. ^^;
Let's see...
After starting a manual search, selecing the right movie/show and having downloaded new information, it suddenly throws up an error message?
When and how do you experience this 'zero object error'?
If you have any more information available, please let me know.
You should be able to find a movie by it's IMDB ID, by entering the IMDB ID directly into the searchfield when doing a manual search, however it still uses TMDB for getting information using the IMDB ID, since I can't currently scrape all that much data using imdbapi.com, so if the movie is not in TMDB at all, it still won't find it.
The manual search dialog is only used for scanning one item a time? if you're using the mass scan for movies / tv shows, it'll return the first item found, even if it's the wrong item, so it won't show up a dialog here.
So why would you need a file path here?
I'll put the idea about adding a mass scan for downloading first available arts into my ideas list.
The 'download metadata for all' movies/tv shows actually only downloads metadata for movies that don't have any yet, and if you want to download information for a movie in the list, it's easier and possibly more stable to do them one by one.
If an item is wrongly recognised during a mass download for metadata, you can select the item and click on 'download metadata' or on 'manual search' to search for the right item, this is basically your 'switch movie' function.
'Sets' support is planned for the next version.
It's already using some IMDB data such as 'rating', 'votes' and 'genre' for tv shows, but the imdbapi.com API which I'm using does not provide a lot of information, so TMDB and TVDB are used by default, and enriched with *some* IMDB data using this imdbapi.
A file is either a movie or a tv show, even if it's got a relation with a tv show. IMDB ID's are added to the NFO files in either cases, but there's no real way to link them, you can't look up a movie on the TVDB or a tv show on TMDB.
I hope this answers most of your questions. ^^;