[Ozpeg]

Thanks vbat - I'll definitely look into Texturecache

I just noticed something with MC after my reload, relating to posters.

I am changing quite a few movie posters as the generic ones are so lame, and I like movies in collections to have the same style poster - I have not made any setting changes, just loaded MC and scraped TV Shows and movies

I just went to change the Thor poster but MC shows 13, while TMDB has 43

Am I missing a setting ? Or am I imagining things (again)  ?

[vbat99]

Thanks vbat - I'll definitely look into Texturecache

I just noticed something with MC after my reload, relating to posters.

I am changing quite a few movie posters as the generic ones are so lame, and I like movies in collections to have the same style poster - I have not made any setting changes, just loaded MC and scraped TV Shows and movies

I just went to change the Thor poster but MC shows 13, while TMDB has 43

Am I missing a setting ? Or am I imagining things (again)  ?

Yes, this has to do with registered users vs Program API Keys.

Get your own API key for TMDb and put this into MC, you should see more posters.
BUT....Also remember that MC filters by selected language, so you may see more posters on TMDB Site, than MC Filters down for matching selected language in MC.

[vbat99]

New Release.
Media Companion 3.745
Date: 2020-04-29

Have received a number of feature requests, most relating to data for Series from TMDB.

But changes have also bee added to mc_com.exe, where profiles are concerned.
Current options are still valid: New options like -mp, ep, -Rm, -RM, -Rt, -RT. See below:

Code:

Useage
mc_com.exe [-m] [-e] [-p ProfileName] [-x templatename outputpath] [-v]
-m  to scrape movies (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-mp to scrape movies (processes all profiles)
-e  to scrape episodes (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-ep to scrape episodes (processes all profiles)
-ex to Scan and download missing episodes Thumbnails.
-Rm to Refresh Movies (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RM to Refresh Movies (prcesses all profiles)
-Rt to Refresh TV Series and episode (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RT to Refresh TV Series and Episodes (processes all profiles)
-x  [templatename] [outputpath] to export media info list
-v  to run with no Console window. All information will be written
     to a log file in Media Companion's folder.  Log is overwritten
     each run of mc_com.exe
-s  used with -v will not sound the exit bell
-d  Shows trailer download progress to console. Ignored if -v specified.

New:

• mc_com - Added new options.
  
• TV - Move and rework Filter.
  
• TV - Add Search Series.
  
• TV - Add Season Titles from TMDB.
  
• TV - Add option display TMDB Season Titles if present. NB Series must be scraped from TMDB.
  
• TV - Batch Rescrape add Series option Keywords as Tags from TMDb only.
  
• Movie - Media Export add trailerytid to <<nfo:>> tag, allows export only of youtube id for trailer.
  
• Movie - Add Lockable Plot, Outline, SortTitle.
  

Fixed:

• TV - Correctly store unique id from tvdb when episode scraped from TMDb.
  
• TV - Correct logic when change show to delete episode artwork.
  
• TV - Fix if Missing episode has empty title or plot, caused crash.
  
• TV - Update episodeguide tag in tvshow.nfo, including addition of TMDb url.
  
• MC - Fix audio codec.
  
• MC - Allow MediaInfoExport to scan sub folders for extra Templates.
  

And, Please, if you experience any crashes, create a Ticket on Media Companion's SourceForge site
Feedback would be appreciated.

Download Link for MC 3.745b x86 & x64

Revision History

[vbat99]

New Release.
Media Companion 3.746
Date: 2020-04-30

Have received a number of feature requests, most relating to data for Series from TMDB.

Urgent release due to extended loading time for large TV databases

But changes have also bee added to mc_com.exe, where profiles are concerned.
Current options are still valid: New options like -mp, ep, -Rm, -RM, -Rt, -RT. See below:

Code:

Useage
mc_com.exe [-m] [-e] [-p ProfileName] [-x templatename outputpath] [-v]
-m  to scrape movies (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-mp to scrape movies (processes all profiles)
-e  to scrape episodes (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-ep to scrape episodes (processes all profiles)
-ex to Scan and download missing episodes Thumbnails.
-Rm to Refresh Movies (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RM to Refresh Movies (prcesses all profiles)
-Rt to Refresh TV Series and episode (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RT to Refresh TV Series and Episodes (processes all profiles)
-x  [templatename] [outputpath] to export media info list
-v  to run with no Console window. All information will be written
     to a log file in Media Companion's folder.  Log is overwritten
     each run of mc_com.exe
-s  used with -v will not sound the exit bell
-d  Shows trailer download progress to console. Ignored if -v specified.

New:

• mc_com - Added new options.
  
• TV - Move and rework Filter.
  
• TV - Add Search Series.
  
• TV - Add Season Titles from TMDB.
  
• TV - Add option display TMDB Season Titles if present. NB Series must be scraped from TMDB.
  
• TV - Batch Rescrape add Series option Keywords as Tags from TMDb only.
  
• Movie - Media Export add trailerytid to <<nfo:>> tag, allows export only of youtube id for trailer.
  
• Movie - Add Lockable Plot, Outline, SortTitle.
  

Fixed:

• TV - MC3.746b Fixes load times for very large TV Databases.
  
• TV - Correctly store unique id from tvdb when episode scraped from TMDb.
  
• TV - Correct logic when change show to delete episode artwork.
  
• TV - Fix if Missing episode has empty title or plot, caused crash.
  
• TV - Update episodeguide tag in tvshow.nfo, including addition of TMDb url.
  
• MC - Fix audio codec.
  
• MC - Allow MediaInfoExport to scan sub folders for extra Templates.
  

And, Please, if you experience any crashes, create a Ticket on Media Companion's SourceForge site
Feedback would be appreciated.

Download Link for MC 3.746b x86 & x64

Revision History

[dirtypapayas]

Hi, I was trying to use the Music Video feature but am wondering if i might be doing something wrong as the identificatrion of music videos is like 20% correct; all the files are formated "Artist - Title" but its coming up with either nothing (just a place holder date of 1901) or pretty far off base.

Do music videos have to be formatted in a particular way?

[Edworld]

New Release.Media Companion 3.746Date: 2020-04-30Have received a number of feature requests, most relating to data for Series from TMDB.

Urgent release due to extended loading time for large TV databases

But changes have also bee added to mc_com.exe, where profiles are concerned.
Current options are still valid: New options like -mp, ep, -Rm, -RM, -Rt, -RT. See below:

Code:

[color=#27ae60]Useage
mc_com.exe [-m] [-e] [-p ProfileName] [-x templatename outputpath] [-v]
-m to scrape movies (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-mp to scrape movies (processes all profiles)
-e to scrape episodes (uses default profile or selected profile by -p)
-ep to scrape episodes (processes all profiles)
-ex to Scan and download missing episodes Thumbnails.
-Rm to Refresh Movies (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RM to Refresh Movies (prcesses all profiles)
-Rt to Refresh TV Series and episode (default profile or selected profile by -p)
-RT to Refresh TV Series and Episodes (processes all profiles)
-x [templatename] [outputpath] to export media info list
-v to run with no Console window. All information will be written
to a log file in Media Companion's folder. Log is overwritten
each run of mc_com.exe
-s used with -v will not sound the exit bell
-d Shows trailer download progress to console. Ignored if -v specified.[/color]

New:

• mc_com - Added new options.
  
• TV - Move and rework Filter.
  
• TV - Add Search Series.
  
• TV - Add Season Titles from TMDB.
  
• TV - Add option display TMDB Season Titles if present. NB Series must be scraped from TMDB.
  
• TV - Batch Rescrape add Series option Keywords as Tags from TMDb only.
  
• Movie - Media Export add trailerytid to <<nfo:>> tag, allows export only of youtube id for trailer.
  
• Movie - Add Lockable Plot, Outline, SortTitle.
  

Fixed:

• TV - MC3.746b Fixes load times for very large TV Databases.
  
• TV - Correctly store unique id from tvdb when episode scraped from TMDb.
  
• TV - Correct logic when change show to delete episode artwork.
  
• TV - Fix if Missing episode has empty title or plot, caused crash.
  
• TV - Update episodeguide tag in tvshow.nfo, including addition of TMDb url.
  
• MC - Fix audio codec.
  
• MC - Allow MediaInfoExport to scan sub folders for extra Templates.
  

And, Please, if you experience any crashes, create a Ticket on Media Companion's SourceForge siteFeedback would be appreciated.Download Link for MC 3.746b x86 & x64Revision History 

I'm still having issues with the audio track flagged as dts-x with this version. The movie is All the Kings Men 1949

[vbat99]

I'm still having issues with the audio track flagged as dts-x with this version. The movie is All the Kings Men 1949

Can you get me the MediaInfo for this file please. And what should it have been flagged as.

[vbat99]

Hi, I was trying to use the Music Video feature but am wondering if i might be doing something wrong as the identificatrion of music videos is like 20% correct; all the files are formated "Artist - Title" but its coming up with either nothing (just a place holder date of 1901) or pretty far off base.

Do music videos have to be formatted in a particular way?

Can you give me titles that are returning date of 1901 please.
What Language are you using? and which scraper? Wiki, IMVdb or TheAudioDb.

[dirtypapayas]

Hi, I was trying to use the Music Video feature but am wondering if i might be doing something wrong as the identificatrion of music videos is like 20% correct; all the files are formated "Artist - Title" but its coming up with either nothing (just a place holder date of 1901) or pretty far off base.

Do music videos have to be formatted in a particular way?

Can you give me titles that are returning date of 1901 please.
What Language are you using? and which scraper? Wiki, IMVdb or TheAudioDb.  

Hi Thanks, here are some of the titles (there are like 500 of them so i figure i wont take the whole thread with the list). For like 99% of the songs it was English.

When i used TheAudioDB songs like this were either not identified at all, or incomplete, or incorrectly
311 - Beautiful Disaster.mkv (got the title but not the artist)
Megadeth - Breadline.mkv (not at all)
Pantera - A New Level.mkv (not at all)
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump.mkv (incorrectly identified as Baby Blue - Bump)

I went back and cleaned up the names a bit more, taking out things like "official video" or "music video" but this time when scraping with wikipedia every single video came back as blank with only (1901) showing up in the list, they are all either webm, mp4, or mkv files:

Scraping Title: 311 - Beautiful Disaster
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Come Original
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Don't Stay Home
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Down
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Flowing
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 3rd Strike - No Light
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A - Starbucks
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A$ton Wyld - Next Level
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Giving In
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Unstable
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice Fredenham - Sexy Moments
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice In Chains - Again
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice in Chains - Again at Saturday Night Special
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

The nfo files only contain the video/codec information, no scraped information.

[vbat99]

Hi Thanks, here are some of the titles (there are like 500 of them so i figure i wont take the whole thread with the list). For like 99% of the songs it was English.

When i used TheAudioDB songs like this were either not identified at all, or incomplete, or incorrectly
311 - Beautiful Disaster.mkv (got the title but not the artist)
Megadeth - Breadline.mkv (not at all)
Pantera - A New Level.mkv (not at all)
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump.mkv (incorrectly identified as Baby Blue - Bump)

I went back and cleaned up the names a bit more, taking out things like "official video" or "music video" but this time when scraping with wikipedia every single video came back as blank with only (1901) showing up in the list, they are all either webm, mp4, or mkv files:

Scraping Title: 311 - Beautiful Disaster
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Come Original
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Don't Stay Home
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Down
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Flowing
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 3rd Strike - No Light
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A - Starbucks
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A$ton Wyld - Next Level
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Giving In
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Unstable
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice Fredenham - Sexy Moments
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice In Chains - Again
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice in Chains - Again at Saturday Night Special
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

The nfo files only contain the video/codec information, no scraped information.

Thanks for the test titles.

I tested with

311 - Beautiful Disaster
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump
Megadeth - Breadline
Pantera - A New Level

From Wikipedia first.
311 -Beautiful Disaster - Scraped correctly.

These three failed due to no track info on Wikipedia.
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump
Megadeth - Breadline
Pantera - A New Level

So checked with IMVDB - also no track data for above three Tracks. Same for TheAudioDB.
If there is no track data to be found, MC can't return any data. Sorry, we don't have anywhere else we can search for info other than these three site.

I then checked the other 311 tracks and they all scraped correctly from Wiki source.

[dirtypapayas]

Hi Thanks, here are some of the titles (there are like 500 of them so i figure i wont take the whole thread with the list). For like 99% of the songs it was English.

When i used TheAudioDB songs like this were either not identified at all, or incomplete, or incorrectly
311 - Beautiful Disaster.mkv (got the title but not the artist)
Megadeth - Breadline.mkv (not at all)
Pantera - A New Level.mkv (not at all)
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump.mkv (incorrectly identified as Baby Blue - Bump)

I went back and cleaned up the names a bit more, taking out things like "official video" or "music video" but this time when scraping with wikipedia every single video came back as blank with only (1901) showing up in the list, they are all either webm, mp4, or mkv files:

Scraping Title: 311 - Beautiful Disaster
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Come Original
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Don't Stay Home
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Down
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 311 - Flowing
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: 3rd Strike - No Light
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A - Starbucks
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: A$ton Wyld - Next Level
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Giving In
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Adema - Unstable
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice Fredenham - Sexy Moments
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice In Chains - Again
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

Scraping Title: Alice in Chains - Again at Saturday Night Special
Music Video Body Scraped OK
HD Tags Added OK
Fanart Screenshot created

The nfo files only contain the video/codec information, no scraped information.

Thanks for the test titles.

I tested with

311 - Beautiful Disaster
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump
Megadeth - Breadline
Pantera - A New Level

From Wikipedia first.
311 -Beautiful Disaster - Scraped correctly.

These three failed due to no track info on Wikipedia.
Kottonmouth Kings - Bump
Megadeth - Breadline
Pantera - A New Level

So checked with IMVDB - also no track data for above three Tracks. Same for TheAudioDB.
If there is no track data to be found, MC can't return any data. Sorry, we don't have anywhere else we can search for info other than these three site.

I then checked the other 311 tracks and they all scraped correctly from Wiki source.
 

First thanks again for helping me with this. I am now thinking i might be doing something wrong?
I just tried erasing all the nfo files and resecraping, using wikipedia/english and got the following:
screenshot
The first 5 on the list are all 311 (311 - Flowing, 311 - Down, 311 - Don't Stay Home,311 - Come Original, 311 - Beautiful Disaster)

If the videos arent listed in any of the DBs then *totally* fair, but would it be possible to show the (parsed) artist and title inforamtion? Like if its not in any of the three DBs then have it default to scraping a music DB so in Kodi I one would see artist infomation and title information? To be honest, i am more interested in the artist/title information than the video information (though video info is cool to have).

Regardless thanks again for the support (and a great piece of software)

[vbat99]

First thanks again for helping me with this. I am now thinking i might be doing something wrong?
I just tried erasing all the nfo files and resecraping, using wikipedia/english and got the following:
screenshot
The first 5 on the list are all 311 (311 - Flowing, 311 - Down, 311 - Don't Stay Home,311 - Come Original, 311 - Beautiful Disaster)

If the videos arent listed in any of the DBs then *totally* fair, but would it be possible to show the (parsed) artist and title inforamtion? Like if its not in any of the three DBs then have it default to scraping a music DB so in Kodi I one would see artist infomation and title information? To be honest, i am more interested in the artist/title information than the video information (though video info is cool to have).

Regardless thanks again for the support (and a great piece of software)

Yes, yes MC should be pulling the artist and title from the filename if the scrape fails.
I'll look into this for the next release.

[Edworld]

I'm still having issues with the audio track flagged as dts-x with this version. The movie is All the Kings Men 1949

Can you get me the MediaInfo for this file please. And what should it have been flagged as. 

Try this link, it shows as DTSx. using 3.741 it shows up at DTSHD which is correct

https://drive.google.com/open?id=171gFgK...G_u4rEBz7j

[vbat99]

I'm still having issues with the audio track flagged as dts-x with this version. The movie is All the Kings Men 1949

Can you get me the MediaInfo for this file please. And what should it have been flagged as. 

Try this link, it shows as DTSx. using 3.741 it shows up at DTSHD which is correct

https://drive.google.com/open?id=171gFgK...G_u4rEBz7j

Thank you.

I've worked on this section and cleaned it up to better support different DTS codec types. Will be in the next release.

[vbat99]

New Release.
Media Companion 3.747
Date: 2020-05-12

General Bug fixes and tidy up of code


New:

• TV - Batch Wizard add get Season Titles for TMDB Scraped Series.
  
• TV - Series failed to scrape, now show a red X against them in the TV Browser list.
  

Fixed:

• MC - Fix and tidy up some DTS audio flags.
  
• TV - Fix episodeguide url for TMDB Series.
  
• TV - TV Show Selector tab, Fix TMDb language issue.
  
• TV - Fix if duplicate seasons found for same Series Id.
  
• TV _ Improve log messages when scraping series.
  
• TV - Fix series status from TMDb.
  
• mc_com - Fix correctly display what we are running mc_com for.
  
• mc_com - Write log file as it happens.
  
• mc_com - Fix race condition.
  
• mc_com - Improve save tvcache.
  
• MusicVideo - Fix up if not scraped store Artist and Title from filename.
  
• MusicVideo - Update TheAudioDb scraper.
  

And, Please, if you experience any crashes, create a Ticket on Media Companion's SourceForge site
Feedback would be appreciated.

Download Link for MC 3.747b x86 & x64

Revision History