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**huttdes** · 2024-01-29, 15:13

I've just used MKVToolnix to remove a bunch of audio tracks from a movie that I didn't realize were there.
The movie is already in my library... is there a way to rescan this file to simply update this in the nfo without changing any of the other info or artwork?

**scott967** · 2024-01-29, 22:54

(2024-01-29, 15:13)huttdes Wrote: I've just used MKVToolnix to remove a bunch of audio tracks from a movie that I didn't realize were there.
The movie is already in my library... is there a way to rescan this file to simply update this in the nfo without changing any of the other info or artwork?

I think navigating in the panel to the movie, right click to open context menu, then "rescrape specific" and "media tags" does what you want.

scott s.
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**huttdes** · 2024-01-30, 01:30

I believe that did it. Thank you.

**huttdes**

So after looking at an nfo file to confirm my previous question...
What is the purpose of all these image urls that are in all of my nfo's?
I tried a few of them and none of them were even valid... all the image files are stored locally so why would any urls even be needed...
Not shown in the sample below but every actor has a url with it as well.
Just a small sample from one of the nfo's

aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/umWpGbpZ7uR8sVMuRapZvhCdFEW.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/iSgYaEjZkXqzVVvkGP30Ta48vRj.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/4B6KTjfRJyw13KYOGjeHUK7phZd.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/yU56mUhQGMChv7HkTKszr6odLrs.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/bGGICTyoGL19U0dfxBU8Z0AA6h9.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb aspect="poster">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/1sSN8smdZ1ewecEzFYxrJwv1SD5.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart url="">
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/zbxFLtnlEOKZTzrDuMpTtevj8PJ.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/zbxFLtnlEOKZTzrDuMpTtevj8PJ.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/1J4Np8KyKJSGSCAh8cgOxArpq8o.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/1J4Np8KyKJSGSCAh8cgOxArpq8o.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/ljIF1JjdUUJtVW55x77vWSJxizQ.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/ljIF1JjdUUJtVW55x77vWSJxizQ.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/7sFjHJSPMjWS7OdeceTzz2ojKB7.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/7sFjHJSPMjWS7OdeceTzz2ojKB7.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/pwsuzIYMlA8GI8KiHVwwG30yCw8.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/pwsuzIYMlA8GI8KiHVwwG30yCw8.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="" colors="" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/aTg5HRqiZVLOcJcAR8sL1boElCl.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/aTg5HRqiZVLOcJcAR8sL1boElCl.jpg</thumb>

Juan Mortyme · 2024-01-30, 02:52

@huttdes
Were those movies previously scraped using another scraper, either a stand-alone program or built-in Kodi scraper? Even some Kodi add-ons can rewrite .nfo files. Have you used the "Export Library" feature in Kodi? If the answer is no to those questions check to see if in the MC preferences the following is checked "Movie Preferences>General>Disable extra Frodo Poster and Thumb URL's". Those are some reasons fanart URL's could get added to a .nfo file.

**huttdes** · 2024-01-30, 05:08

(2024-01-30, 02:52)Juan Mortyme Wrote: @huttdes
Were those movies previously scraped using another scraper, either a stand-alone program or built-in Kodi scraper? Even some Kodi add-ons can rewrite .nfo files. Have you used the "Export Library" feature in Kodi? If the answer is no to those questions check to see if in the MC preferences the following is checked "Movie Preferences>General>Disable extra Frodo Poster and Thumb URL's". Those are some reasons fanart URL's could get added to a .nfo file.

So the answer to the first question is possibly... I have used others in the past but it's been just MC for years now. But I did think of that and I did look at recently scraped movies and they all have it.
I've never used the export library feature.
So I did check my preferences and that option is not checked. I'll check that... I hit a movie and selected 'rescrape all'... the new nfo was clear of all the poster and thumb URL's but the actor ones remained.
Tried another movie and instead of all I just rescraped 'poster URL's'... That cleared them as well... except actors.
So I can always do this for the whole library.

I didn't any similar settings for actors... is this normal or am I missing something else?

vbat99 · 2024-01-30, 09:41

Actor URL links are for Kodi, in case Kodi can not find local actor image (Kodi checked .actor folder first) Kodi will then use the URL.

Same for the Poster, Fanart URL you found.
I tried the first three urls for poster, and for Fanart, the URL's for Stand By Me are still valid, but as you mentioned, you have the artwork local, so you can ignore these or as you've done, rescrape to clean up the nfo.

vbat99 · 2024-03-30, 01:10

New Release.
Media Companion 3.764b
Date: 2024-03-30

Due to changes in personal situation, this update has been a long time coming. I apologies for users of Media Companion for this huge delay.

Fixes and functionality changes for this release.

Changes:

TV - Fix listing duplicate episodes output.
TV - Add context menu to switch a series scraper source between TVDB and TMDb.
TV - Add Mirror button to Fanart tab.
TV - Add URL or Browse button to screenshot tab.
TV - Add thumb node to xml to support.
Movie - Fix AKA Titles from IMDb as best as possible.
Movie - Fix Keywords from IMDb.
Movie - ID node to be empty if id is zero.
Movie - Fix Manual Poster and Fanart selection not confirming to resizing settings.
Movie - Fixed bug introduced fixing date added node when renaming movie folder.
Movie - Allow sort if user rated has decimal place. (not the norm for Kodi)
Movie - Add Mirror button to Fanart tab.
Movie - Add option AKA titles from TMDb (IMDb AKA is broken, limited to 5 titles).
MC - Fix Audio language type format change.
MC - Update Youtube downloader helper, include batch file users can run to update if required.

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

Download Link for MC 3.764b x86 & x64

Revision History

Juan Mortyme · 2024-04-09, 20:02

Since the last update the tv episode thumb url is automatically being added. This was previously not the case. Is there a setting to disable it? I prefer the way it was before not having the url saved since I have the art saved locally.

vbat99 · 2024-04-10, 11:00

I'll add a disable, or enable function in the next release.

Just for reference, Kodi should load the artwork with the episode if present, the url is a fallback.
In this instance, the url was added so than for Multi-episode nfo's, Kodi would retrieve the extra thumbnail for the 2nd, 3rd etc episode in a multi-episode file instead of using the single thumb for the first of the multi episodes.