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ok I have been using XBMC for years now and am pretty familiar with it. I know about the sets button ect I know about NFO files ect..
but my issue is XBMC will not group certain movies in a set, all my folders and the files are built the same to they if one works they should all work and vice versa, I have made sure that the titles and the medadata all match the database and it does.
out of the 120 kids movies the following do not get put in a set
DORA
SESAME Street
Go Diego Go
Blues Clue
but these do put in the sets
cars
Atlantis
Barbie
Cinderella
leap from
star wars
and that's just a few
I thought I read somewhere that the moviedB does not recognize some movies a sets so when XBMC updates it wont group them in sets. Is this right?
I thought if I made NFO file that that would work but nope it still does not put them in their own set.
So am I completely out of luck or is there another way to make these movies in sets. I tried using the universal scraper as well and NADA that made things worse. I am using confluence modified and have a tab on the main menu titled kids that pulls from a playlist that that has my kids movies in it.
suggestions?
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To be clear, you only have one <set> flag for each nfo, correct?
Sometimes, depending on the scraper, I've seen two <set> flags created. However, sometime the first one is blank (like <set></set>), and since XBMC can only use one set flag, it will not put the movie in a set.
Check those files for extra <set> flags.
XBMC will default to local .nfo data before internet scraping, so you can always remove the movie from the DB and update it again when you make a change.
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Any luck?
I have the exact same problem. Want to put all my kids movies in the same collection.
English: <set>Cartoons</set>
Danish: <set>Tegnefilm</set>
I use Media Center Master to index and make my NFO files. All the kids movies are in the same folder named "Tegnefilm" and Media Center Master makes an NFO file and puts the <set> tag corresponding to the folder name.
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Having changed the .nfo in the folder and added the <set>Cartoons</set> flag.... XBMC will still not add them to your 'Cartoons' set until you re-scrape locally.... i.e. go to the folder, hit movie information, hit the re-scrape button, at which point XBMC should have recognized a valid .nfo and presented you with a requester 'local information found' 'ignore and refresh from the internet' at this point a denial will pick up the local .nfo including your edited 'set' flag.... If you didn't see this, then XBMC is not recognizing your .nfo (3rd party stuff does that sometimes).
The real rub is that if you should re-scrape from the internet, your set flag will be lost as it will be overwritten by the database information. I'm hoping this will settle out your issue.
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I deleted all databases in xbmc and rescraped all of it overnight, the other night.
To no avail. That's why I came here for som advise because it doesn't make sence.
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2013-04-23, 20:37
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-23, 20:38 by PatK.)
If you deleted the database and re-scraped, and your customs sets are not custom....then XBMC took the media data from the internet and didn't see your custom .nfo, there's something odd/non standard in your folders (probably a setting in Ember) and XBMC bypasses the folder and goes straight for the internet again.
1) use a text editor on one of your custom .nfo files.. ensure you have the set flagged
2) Do a manual refresh on your custom .nfo with the custom 'set', did it take locally... or auto magically went for internet?
3) Check your sets, it should have turned up, unless of course it went online and overwrote the .nfo
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2013-04-23, 23:44
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-23, 23:59 by asiuhas.)
I used the Universal Scraper and it used your NFO file and added the file to the set Tegnefilm.
I guess the NFO file is named exactly the same as the video file?
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I don't see a problem with your .nfo posted, and as user 'asiuhas' pointed out, it should show up in sets. Manually scraping with XBMC is the meta data recognized or does it auto-magically connect with the web?
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I use an auto-updater which looks for changes every 4th hour. Now after several days it's beginning to put the cartoons in the right set.
Haven't touched anything these past days. But not all cartoons is indexed the right way, think I'll wait a couple more days and see what happens ;-)