Will check into this soon.
Sorry about that, will look into getting MC to give a movie without this tag a default value.
Found I could get this to work. Will be in the next release.
TV - Add function to context menu 'Rescrape Season'.
TV - Fix for folder titles with full stop in place of space character.
Movie & TV - Allow Maximum actors from IMDb.
Movie & TV - Fixed IMDB Actors again, for how long...no idea.
Scraping TV Series - No Tags
All good. Closing Ticket.
I'm looking into it now, it might be possible, just need to make sure I don't break anything lol
Hi Jason Try as I can, I can not get MC to overwrite the images of an existing series without a tvshow.nfo. So I am scraping a series from fresh by just adding the series folder to Media Companion. This folder has fanart.jpg, poster.jpg and a banner.jpg existing. Just to sanity check, I put a different series poster and fanart image in this folder. And when I check, these images have not been overwritten. Sorry, I can not reproduce.
Fix in place for the next release, MC will change the period character to a space character.
IMDb actors fixed again. Will be in the next release.
Movie - Fix for png artwork type.
TV - Batch rescrape Wizard will now run over filtered series list.
Movie Set - Fix Update All button. Movie Set - Add contex option 'Open Artwork folder'.
Fix in place for the next release.
Sorted the F4 - Rescraper Wizard. Will now run the filtered TV Series. Sorry, but second request is a No. You can filter the series by Ended, then open context menu, and click Lock all Shows Will only lock the selected shows. The Lock Shows is so these Locked series will be excluded on the Rescraper Wizard, unless you specifically want to use the Wizard over all Series. Having an option to flip the locked status will cause runtime errors and defeat the purpose of locking. Sorry, up to the user to...
Context option added.
Hi Nick Can you elaborate what error your getting?
Missing aired episodes
As no further discussion, closing ticket.
You asked about this in Discussions, and has been answered. https://sourceforge.net/p/mediacompanion/discussion/general/thread/ab69622fde/ I will look at the code, and see if it is possible, but not a priority.
Hi Thomas I have looked into this again and again. The only way your not getting tags for series is if you have set the option in TV General / Scraper tab to Max keywords as Tags to None I can't reproduce this issue.
Batch Missing Set Info rescraper not working
Closing Ticket.
Button now visible on Movie Sets tab that will refresh all movie sets data.
At present, this is only on the Movie Sets tab, not included in the Batch Rescraper. But, I see a button is missing that updates all the movie sets, I'll fix that in the next release, sorry.
Um, working for me, gets </trailer> <tag>based on movie</tag> <tag>22nd century</tag> <tag>spaceship crash</tag> <tag>near future</tag> <tag>human robot hybrid</tag> <genre>Sci-Fi & Fantasy</genre>
Thanks for the extensive testing, this definitely helps, as well as opens a couple more questions like why does rewriting the nfo correct the actor image path? Will look into this, but as mentioned, I need to set up a central actor folder over nfs.
Tags are only available from TMDb, so scrape from TMDb will populate the tags.
This will take some time as I don't have a share anymore to test central actor folder. As for fallback for actor image, not at this time. At present, you have three options, TVDb, TMDB, and IMDb (of which IMDb is broken again)
I'll look into this. So it's just the episode thumb that's being overwritten?
This can be done. Will work on it.
Thanks for bringing to my attention, I will investigate and see about adding this to MC.
Will look into this. I feel the missing poster filter may only be searching for jpg's, but have to check the code.
Checking into this and IMDb have changed their webpages again. Also, In fullcredits for way of the water is only returning 64 main cast and another 16 extras, but MC never adds the extras. But there is a lot for TV series, so I'll work on this But, IMDB Actor scraping seems broken again, and this needs to be fixed...again.
TV - TV Posters if TVDb or TMDb All is selected, leave thumbnails visible when selecting different season to save image to.
Just tested, and MC is leaving the images in place if they exist. How are you adding the new TV Shows?
Next release, if you have already selected TVDB All or TMDB All, and images loaded, and then switch from Main or switch seasons, the images will not disappear. As for preview size, sorry, this is set to allow specific 10 images. If you need to view a preview thumb better you can double click the image and it will show in another window at mostly full size. Marking this request as completed.
First I must say that MC should have removed the full stops when searching for the series title, so I will look into that and put a fix in for the next release. But, MC has never renamed the series folder. It's not a function in Media Companion...at this time.
Checked and your right. I'll look into this for the next release.
Can you give me Movie and series with more that 50 actors so I can test please.
No, not possible. Firstly, the series and episodes are linked by TMDB Id and TVDb Id's. And this is what we use to get data from each site. What your asking is basically to scrape from both sites and merge the data together. Sorry, not going to happen.
TV - Fix display of multiple characters for actors with a forward slash. Limit extra characters to 60.
The filter for Missing Aired episodes is there, but you need to enable Display missing episodes under the TV Shows drop-down menu.
All good, and I see IMDb actors with multiple characters this is broken again. But, I'll change this to a / character instead of a comma.
Yep, the last 2020 would have caused the issues. I believe you can add -EDGE202 to clean filenames in Preferences -> Common Settings.
Yes logging is atrocious in media companion I'll try and add more logging for the batch scraping for the next release.
I haven't looked at this and it wasn't removed so something may be a miss. I'll have to check it over the weekend.
Now you've made me curious what was wrong with the original file names?
adds both tv show and episode actors when add imdbid
Closing ticket
Multiple Movies Sets with the same name
Closing ticket as requested.
This should be working with latest release. Closing request as done.
IMDB Scraper somewhat works on episodes and shows
MC 3.770b out now, fixes for IMDb cast for shows, episodes, and movies.
MC 3.770b
RevisionHistory
Unfortunately this requires manual intervention, so no, not a feature that will be in MC. You'll have to select the movies, and manually change this to the collection you want them in. This is already possible in Media Companion.
The problem is these collections have two different Collection Id's I can not find a Aardman Collection on TMDb, but can find the Wallace & Gromit Collection I feel you need to remove the movies from the Aardman collection, and rescrape them for Wallance & Gromit. You could in MC change the movies under the Aardman collection to the Wallace & Gromit, in the main browser window, you can select the drop box and change the collection a movie is linked to.
What sort of error message are you getting?
Fix in place for next release
TV - Refix Cast from IMDb. Movie - Fix Top250, Ratings and Votes from IMDb.
TV - Fix IMDb actors.
I assume you are talking about cast from IMDb?
Sorry, got side-tracked with IMDb issues, and yes, forgot all about this issue. Will work on this the coming week.
MC 3.769b
Movie - 2nd and final fix for IMDb scraping...hopefully.
IMDB Not working for actors
New MC 3.769b release now.
Changing Movie Files and folder names to Year of Movie
Just to advise a new release is out now, MC 3.769b, that should fix all (hopefully) of IMDb data.
RevisionHistory
Hi Bob IMDb does not have an API for non-commercial applications, so we have to scrub their web pages for the information, and IMDb changes their layout/format often, which breaks MC scraping from IMDb. It is not recommended to use just the IMDb scraper, but use the TMDB scraper and select which data you retrieve from IMDb in the scraper options. On saying that, I am in the process of fixing a lot of the scraper info from IMDb, as they changed their format the day after I released 3.7.6.8. Can you...
Move - Another update to fix data from IMDb, actors, directors and credits.
Damn it, it changes so fast on IMDb. Will look into it...again.
Fixed. Thanks
MC 3.768b
MC - update ffmpeg
New release MC 3.768b out now.
Rescraping info for previously scraped series
New release MC 3.768b out now. closing ticket.
Movie Outline not scrapping
New release MC 3.768b out now. closing ticket.
IMDB actor scraping not working
New release MC 3.768b out now. closing ticket.
Adding multiple shows uses TVDB actors from the previously added show
New release MC 3.768b out now. closing ticket.
RevisionHistory
Data from TMDb does not identify season regulars from guest cast, so no way to separate these except from the order field received, which doesn't tell if they are main cast or guest, except for the order they are displayed on TMDb site. So the answer to your request is, no, not able to separate Main from all cast.
I have today fixed again IMDb actor scraping. Will be in the next release out hopefully later this week. But, I did note most series actors are also listed under the episode actors on IMDb.
You can't. Neither IMDb or TMDb or TVDb lists what are classed as main actors. Trying to get data on which actors have been in how many episodes is near impossible to calculate and trying to work out a good formula as to how many episodes of a series should class an actor as a Main Cast actor is much to complex to incorporate. Your best chance is to limit the quantity of actors scraped, then if you wish, remove the extras from the Series nfo.
Fix is in place for the next release, that I am trying to push out later this week.
OK, As slack as I am, I've spend some time on this today, and have a fix in place. I am hoping to release a new version later this week.
I have looked into this and not easily possible as MC is coded on dot net 4.0.
MC - Fix a IMDB scrape issue for Outline, Stars, Actors and a few more, for Movie and TV
Batch Rescrape
Good news, I'll close the ticket.