[maddog808]

Thank you guys so much for taking the time to help a Media Companion newbie!! See my responses to your questions below in large, red font.

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Please let me know if I can provide any more info to help troubleshoot this.

Thanks,
Matt

Hey Matt, I may have a chance to look at this for you. I need to reinstall my dev setup, but in the meantime, if you could PM me a directory listing of your movie collection, I'll look into it at my first opportunity. (If you're unsure how to do that, let me know.)
Cheers, Huey

Hi Huey,

Thanks for offering. PM sent. You'll notice by looking at the actor lists that Media Companion now thinks that most of my movies are either "American Beauty", or "Vertigo". I tried deleting all of the .nfo, .jpg, .tbn, etc, and starting over. i get the same results, but the movie will vary. (The movie that Media Companion decides to think that a bunch of my movies are). It's almost like it gets stuck or something, and just keeps grabbing info for the same movie over and over. What doesn't make sense is that "Vertigo" isn't even in my collection to begin with.

This is the first time I've tried putting all this data with the movie folders on my Unraid server. I have always just pointed XBMC at my Unraid movie share, and XBMC would scrape for everything and store the data locally on each client. I thought it would be easier to have the metadata on the Unraid share, but now I'm re-thinking that theory.

Keep in mind, before I started scraping with Media Companion, my movie directory structure was just a "movies" folder, then a folder for each movie that would be named the IMDB movie title, with (year) after it. Inside each movie folder was either a single .mkv, .avi, or the occasional .iso, or VIDEO_TS subfolder.

All of the subfolders and files you see in my directory list now were created by Media Companion.

Let me know if you have any more questions. I'm not the type of person to give up on software. I'll keep trying till I figure out what is causing this.

Thanks again!!
Matt

Media Companion 3.588b keeps crashing while scraping on my Windows 7 PC. Any ideas? Here is the Windows error message:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: media companion.exe
Problem Signature 02: 3.5.8.8
Problem Signature 03: 52897917
Problem Signature 04: Media Companion
Problem Signature 05: 3.5.8.8
Problem Signature 06: 52897917
Problem Signature 07: 50c
Problem Signature 08: e
Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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I have 700+ movies. All movies are in their individual folders with IMDB names and (year). I have Media Companion set to scrape using folder name, with XBMC scrapers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This app is AWESOME, BTW!!

So from your second message below, the crash was occurring when you were using XBMC TMDB scraper?

Yes, Media Companion would crash when trying to scrape using XBMC TMDB scraper. This is correct.

Then I deleted all the .nfo, .jpg, .tbn, etc files and extrafanart and extrathumbs folders. Then I started over, using the Media Companion built in scraper. That's when Media Companion decided i had 300+ copies of the movie "Vertigo" (which I don't have at all in my colleciton).

Then I started over again, and Media Companion decided i have 200+ copies of "American Beauty".

OK. So I switched the scraper to the MC built in scraper because the XBMC scraper kept crashing MC. It finished scraping, but almost half of my movies were incorrectly scraped as "Vertigo (1958)". It is real random, too. I can't figure out why these specific movies scraped wrong. If I click "change movie", I'm able to manually fix each movie. This will take quite a while, though, as there are over 300 with this same problem.

Is there any way to automatically fix this, now that the .nfo file and all the fanart, etc is for "Vertigo" for all these movies?

Here is a quick screenshot of what I'm talking about:





Please let me know if I can provide any more info to help troubleshoot this.

Thanks,
Matt

Can only suggest to delete the faulty nfo's and Search New again. I thought I'd caught the issue of IMDB giving us a default movie, but maybe they've changed their site again. Will have a look.

I'll try that again, and report back with my results. Thank you.

Also, how many movies were you scraping when this occurred?

I was scraping 758 movies.

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