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2016-05-06, 17:39
This is my complaint with all the Media Managers I've found, they are WAY too dependent on the "Known" Info sites.
I use TV Show formats to keep various other online video organized (YouTube Channels, Video sites, etc) I also have written a c# program that pulls down a lot of those infos and writes them to NFO automatically (if any of these Media managers had an scraper API I'd be happy to write plugins for them) but after the initial NFO read most of these require a reload of the entire app or the entire database in order to load info from a SINGLE NFO. Either that or I'm overlooking the option to do so.
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I don't see the problem. He is deliberately wanting to override what your sources have for NFO files he has created. Who cares if it diverges from imdb or tvdb etc. By pointing to a movie or several movies and specifying Use MY NFO, he is taking over. You know...... Kind of like Kodi being instructed to use local NFO files. TMM doesn't need the customized data. Some of us are pretty intelligent. Some of us like doing strange things with your software. Why not embrace that? If there is a cost that is needed to make it make sense, state that. If I wanted a feature that was weird and not very much in demand, but you could do it in half an hour, state the charge. I pay you or you don't do it.
Look, I absolutely love your software. I just don't get why you are seemingly unreceptive to roles that you haven't considered. I asked about a mobile phone version that could be used as a movie lookup tool. I have had to resort to crappy apps that want box barcodes. They suck. They won't use nfo files to create a catalog. I modified your export to get imdb numbers in a file, but the resulting library has many errors. I have 3000 movies. I don't want to scan that much.
At least let people know what needs to be done to access their TMM database directly. Then apps can be developed to use that database.
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2016-05-19, 09:37
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-19, 09:38 by myron.)
Current workaroundaround is, to remove the movie from database, and freshly import it again (update datasource)
Since 99% of all our metadata is already stored in NFO, there should be no problem...
Problem here are the different requirements of "reloading".
Should we drop everything from DB and freshly read the NFO?
Should we keep everything, and only overwrite metadata from NFO?
Should we just reload some specific tags from NFO (eg watched, playcount)?
Should we just .....?
We are aware of this "problem"; and have already some ideas in our todo list...
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The simple option is to clear out previous data and read in the new. That is a delete and insert sequence. The next is to overwrite that info that is different than the NFO file. The next option is to provide checkboxes for every single possible field. Only checked fields get updated. Obviously, there must be some standard for the composition of the NFO file.
You are using a new database system. Can you point me to a good dbms for it?
By the way,
I consider this media manager the best of those which I have used. I love that it is portable. I love that it writes nothing to the registry. I wish more programs were like this.
When I fuss, it isn't that I am ungrateful, it is that I see the potential and I want you to realize that potential.
I hope at some point that you put something like this out for music.
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2017-03-16, 17:05
(This post was last modified: 2017-03-16, 17:09 by JeromyNix.)
Ok so now its getting annoying because I'm getting crashes and the database is out of sync with the nfo files it JUST wrote prior to the crash, and the only way to reload the nfos properly is to Initialize the database which marks EVERYTHING as new on rescan. This is a NEEDED feature. And since the program reads NFOs anyway why is the ability to rescan from NFO not manually available for individual episodes/movies/tvshows?
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2017-03-19, 10:10
(This post was last modified: 2017-03-19, 10:10 by mlaggner.)
we did not forget about this, but from the actual point of development it would be better to include that along with our new NFO parsing logic (v3)
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