New Release Media Companion gen2 3.106

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

esra wrote:

Got it working and seems pretty nice!

Only issue i have is with the regex, seems to be very limited.

All my TV shows scraped fine in previous versions, howvere i noticed that a lot were being skipped or else only shows episodes 10 and above were scraping.

Changing from 1x01 etc to everything on S01E01 seems to have fixed it.

I've just been looking at this and I think i've solved it for the next build.

It's not at the very top of my list, but user customizable regex functionality will also be added over the next couple of weeks.

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billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

Vlatro wrote:

Ran into a minor issue. It seems when a directory is added, it creates a basic file for each show, season, episode and then populates it with the data. So if the scraping is interrupted or canceled, you're left with an empty file. Since the file exists, it won't re-scrape, leaving you with shows that display the name and season number, but all episodes in tree-view are simply numbers 001, 002, 003 etc. None of them contain any data, just the unpopulated .nfo tags.

This is all based on observation, and looking at the logs. After canceling, everything finished in the log has data, everything after that has an empty .nfo, so I'm not sure if this is really the source of the problem, it's just best guess.

You mentioned adding a cache, could that be a contributing factor in this? If so, can I dump the Cache? Is there currently a method of rescraping, overwriting the existing nfos, or should I just delete them all and try again?

Other than that, the interface is coming along nicely, and it's scraping very fast. A huge improvement over the original in terms of performance. Great work.

The empty nfo files is actually a bug caused by MC still saving the episode object even if it is empty, will be fixed for next release.

Rescraping episodes will is on my list of things to do over the next week or so.

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billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

jphoenix wrote:

Gidday Billy. Excellent work. Found just a small glitch.

In TV Shows, if you click on 'TV Show Selector', then back to 'main browser', every time you hit the 'Search for new episodes' MC jumps back to 'TV show selector' tab as it starts scanning.

Also, very, very minor nuisance. The log that pops up at the end, show all folders that were scanned, but if you want to check what episodes have been scraped, it's a good long scroll to the bottom to check.

Can the folders scanned not be logged, and just a list of scraped or also failed to scraped episodes be logged.

The Cache is great, after I found how to enable it. And MC is very fast (if only my internet speed was). FANTASTIC progress!

Thanks for all the hard work. Hope you had a great holiday. Cheers Rob.

I much needed the break, although as usual, I feel like I need another holiday just to recover from this one Smile

The folder logging is more of a debug tool at the moment, the level of logging will be reduced once I am content that there is no bugs in that section.

The other error with MC jumping to the TV Show selector tag has been fixed for the next release.

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billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

toekneebullard wrote:

For people having issues adding new shows, heres the problem I had, and the work-around for it.

I had a few new folders with files in them, all shows not yet in MC. I deleted all the folders in the prefs and added the root folder which contained the new show folders.

I then his the "look for new shows" button. Nothing new shows up. Then I hit "rebuild shows" under the TV Shows menu, and I see the new shows pop up, but they have no content. No amount of rescraping or rebuilding fixes it.

So here's the solution.

It seems when you scrape without having any info for the show, the scraper creates nfo files for each new ep, but they're blank. Once you've got the show folder into MC, delete those blank nfo files, and resrcape, and you should have everything in order.

ON ANOTHER NOTE:
The only thinkg that bugs me about MC right now is how some shows have multiple seasons listed in the dropdown menu, even though I don't have any shows under that season. It seems like it should onl;y list season, extras, specials, etc if you actually have those files.

The issue with the empty nfo files will be fixed for the next release.

I have also redone the way that episodes are added to the treeview so that only seasons that actually have at least one episode will be listed.

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viperx · Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.106 Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:57 am

Hi,
I'm having problems saving the episode.tbn files as well when scraping TV shows with this new build. In the "old" 2.291 build the episode.tbn files were scraped and saved and this is not the case in 3.106 (if I havn't missed any scraper settings).

I must say that I like this program a lot and I'm really looking forward to the next build!

esra · Junior Member Posts: 33 Join date: 2009-05-08

I Actually like the fact that it shows the seasons you don't have, reminds me what i still need to get.

viperx · Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.106 Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:21 pm

esra wrote:

I Actually like the fact that it shows the seasons you don't have, reminds me what i still need to get.

...same here.

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

esra wrote:

I Actually like the fact that it shows the seasons you don't have, reminds me what i still need to get.

I have actually changed the behaviour now so that only seasons that have at least one episode are listed, and to be honest it is easier to see missing seasons like this than the other.

With a Show listing:
Season 01
Season 02
Season 04
Season 05
It is easy to see that season 3 is missing where with:
Season 01
Season 02
Season 03
Season 04
Season 05
It is not so clear, although the lack of the + would likely give it away.

In the future I will be looking at the possibility of checking all shows for missing episodes, but this is for the future.

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