Massupdate of metadata?

[speechles 1917]

Perhaps delete all the movie.XML and fetching them all back again?

 

CD movies

Del /s movie.xml

 

Make sure you do this in the path all your movie folders are in. You don't have to do this from every movie folder. Just the root movie folder. Yes, this is drastic. But this assures every movie will get a new XML file downloaded and metadata for it will be populated with recent data, not outdated or possibly incorrect. This won't replace, 0byte or screenshots used as posters incorrectly. To fix 0byte problems see below. To fix incorrect posters, delete offending poster.jpg from the problem movie folder of your library and let a rescan then *cross fingers* correctly get the poster.

 

You can also...

 

@echo off

Set out=zeroes.txt

(For /r . %%F in (*.*) do (if %%~zF LSS 1 echo %%F)) >k %out

pause

Put this in the root of your movie folder, name it zeroes.bat and click it. After it runs look for the file zeroes.txt in the same folder. Inside is the path/to/filename.ext of anything 0byte in your library. Failed downloads of trailers, subtitles, images, etc can be found this way. To automatically delete them when found change the "echo %%F" to "del %%F".

 

I run zeroes.bat on all my added library paths at least once a week, then delete the 0byte files it found, so a library scan and scheduled tasks will rebuild them.

 

With the two methods above you should be able to fix the issues.

 

 

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Edited October 13, 2014 by speechles

[Luke 37010]

have you tried a refresh at folder level in the metadata editor?

 

This is the correct answer. We also don't kill metadata, so it's probably best you explain that so that if there is an issue, it can get solved.

[Beardyname 194]

have you tried a refresh at folder level in the metadata editor?

[maximus1 2]

i looked everywhere inside the servergui and here but can not find anything.

 

Media Browser did it again and killed all my metadata. most entries in every movie.xml are empty but where nearly complete filled.

i realy need to update all my movies (3000+) but can do it only the manual way.

is there a function to do that?

editing 100 took some hours because my system AMD 5350 (4x2,05 Ghz) 4GB RAM

just clicking scan medial library does anything but does not update metadata.

i have activated :

- realtime filsystem scanner

- automatic updates for pictures

- load metadata from internet

- safe metadata with my movies in my favorite language

 

 

is there a hidden category i´ve missed?

 

please add a "get that dumb metadata.... now!" button or anything similar.

[maximus1 2]

first i have to say sorry for my realy bad english in the starting post. it is not my natural language and my shooltime is long time ago. and i was tired.

 

refreshing from folder level did it. thanks for your helping information. :-)

 

what happend?!?

i have no clue.

from one day to another all my movie.xml where nearly empty.

i do not play around on my media center. it is just for watching movies and series.

in the evening i wake up my media center and start something to watch when i go to bed.

after 2h with no activities while watching a movie or 30min after ending of a movie the system goes to syspend (S3).

sometimes i update server and  MCEclient.

thats all what happens.

Edited October 14, 2014 by maximus1

[Luke 37010]

Ok, we put a lot of information into movie.xml so I doubt that was us.

[Diedrich 355]

have you tried a refresh at folder level in the metadata editor?

I'm sorry for being dense, but could you provide a step-by-step, please. In the metadata editor; are you saying to click "Movies" and then "Advanced Refresh"?

[Angelblue05 4130]

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I believe the best way would be to use the Advanced Refresh so you can refresh only what you need, the way you want it. I believe "Refresh" will refresh both metadata and images.

 

      

[Diedrich 355]

@@Angelblue05 Thank you for confirming that, I really appreciate it. My confusion was that other than the activity spinner (which I thought it was trying to update the Movies XML data - since the folder contains its own data), I had no idea that instead, my media was being updated.

 

Okay, that sentence was poorly constructed but I hope you understood what was causing my confusion.

[Angelblue05 4130]

I think I understand what you mean. The loading icon (spinning wheel) disappear if you do anything in the metadata manager. The refresh still runs in the background - you can see it in the logs, so don't press refresh multiple times on the same content. 

[Diedrich 355]

I think I understand what you mean. The loading icon (spinning wheel) disappear if you do anything in the metadata manager. The refresh still runs in the background - you can see it in the logs, so don't press refresh multiple times on the same content.

That's exactly what I did. In fact, i didn't know there was an operation still running and that it was doing all the hard work for me so I manually went into all 80+ movies to manually press the update buttons and search for the cover art. Then I realized, about 30 minutes later, that movies I hadn't touched yet were being populated.