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Swindiff · 2021-02-28, 11:38

Hi
Is is possible to just scrape a single studio, as the Kodi scrapers do? Scraping multiple studios breaks the ability to display the studio icon.
Cheers

**mlaggner** · 2021-03-01, 17:21

a) we take what we get from the scraper - if the scraper reports multiple studios for this movie/TV show tmm, takes this into its database
b) we split multiple studios into different <studio> tags in the NFO, so it is up to the skin which logo to display

**Karellen** · 2021-03-01, 22:03

(2021-03-01, 17:21)mlaggner Wrote: b) we split multiple studios into different <studio> tags in the NFO, so it is up to the skin which logo to display

It can't.

The skin requires a single studio entry to display a studio icon. - eg Lionsgate Films
If there are multiple studios, Kodi scans it into the database and you end up with... Lionsgate Films / Twentieth Century Fox / MGM / Imagine Entertainment / Paramount Pictures as an example, and the skin cannot parse a single studio. It looks at that whole string to match against a studio.

I thought this was raised and fixed a couple of years ago.

**mlaggner** · 2021-03-02, 08:01

well than the support of multiple studio tags inside the NFO is contra-productive!? Seeing that structure it looks like this is fully supported by Kodi

**Karellen** · 2021-03-02, 08:18

Yes and no.

Kodi will display multiple studios... in text format
If users want the studio icon in a skin that supports icons, it needs to be a single studio only.

Swindiff · 2021-03-02, 09:30

Thankyou Karellen.

This would be a much welcomed addition to Tiny Media Manager, the ability yo just scrape the major studio to the NFO. Would this be possible to implement?

**mlaggner** · 2021-03-02, 20:34

probably no - this is not the right way Wink

make things _wrong_ in tmm because of a missing function in Kodi...

BUT - we do have NFO writing settings (where just the serialization of the tmm data into the NFO can be _altered_). I may add an option there to only write 1 studio

Swindiff · 2021-03-02, 21:01

(2021-03-02, 20:34)mlaggner Wrote: probably no - this is not the right way make things _wrong_ in tmm because of a missing function in Kodi...

BUT - we do have NFO writing settings (where just the serialization of the tmm data into the NFO can be _altered_). I may add an option there to only write 1 studio

I'm not suggesting you should make this the default way of scraping studios. But maybe a simple checkbox, for scape a single studio? This would make it compatible to display studio icons in Kodi.

**Karellen** · 2021-03-02, 22:08

The Kodi scrapers have a setting "Add Multiple Studios" which is disabled by default.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:The_Movie_...on#General

Cromseth · 2021-03-02, 22:10

(2021-03-02, 20:34)mlaggner Wrote: probably no - this is not the right way make things _wrong_ in tmm because of a missing function in Kodi...

BUT - we do have NFO writing settings (where just the serialization of the tmm data into the NFO can be _altered_). I may add an option there to only write 1 studio

Please do it optional. I like to get all production stuff and remove the ones I want. I love to be me who chose which one to keep.