Support for TinyMediaManager TV show structure

[GDragoN]

I already tried without NFO file, folder/poster doesn't get picked and TV show info is broken (I have disabled getting info from the internet). So, if you managed to make it work, it can be, but something in Mezzmo needs to be set up correctly for it to work, and in my case, I am still missing something.

[jbinkley60]

What do your Playlist/Folders metadata retrieval settings look like ?


Jeff

[GDragoN]

Enabled external files and XBMC, and artwork based on contents of folder. If I disabled that last one, Mezzmo doesn't set any preview image.

[jbinkley60]

Peter is going to have to look at this. I have getting info from the Internet enabled and there may be a tie in there in the logic. I do believe that if you have the Internet retrieval enabled but have poster, fanart files and NFO that they will take precedent. At least that's how it is working for me. You might try that. What version of Mezzmo are you running ?


Jeff

[GDragoN]

Running latest Mezzmo (always updated), and I experimented a bit yesterday: disabled the option to generate folder artwork based on the content, and I ended up with even stranger results: approx 10% of tv shows now have posters used, and the rest still don't, and I have lost previews for folders that contain the tv shows (I use active/smart playlists). So, something is definitely wrong with the way Mezzmo generates previews.

[Peter]

I added a poster.jpg file in a series folder for NCIS New Orleans\Season 03 as a test then right-clicked on the video in this folder in Mezzmo and selected to Maintain Files. The poster was found and added as the poster for this TV episode. I tried the same with the file named folder.jpg. This is with the default settings for metadata retrieval

[GDragoN]

Is there a way I can reset the database without loosing the playlists I created? Maybe if all the data Mezzmo collected is removed, it will correctly do this.

[smitbret]

Unfortunately, it seems to be a glitch in Mezzmo. I also use TMM to generate .nfo files for TV and Movie files.

It works almost perfectly for movies (except when there is a <colon> in the movie title).

However, Mezzmo just doesn't seem to want to cooperate about 20% of the time when it comes to TV Series and playlists. I have been fighting it for many, many months. These are the settings and setup that I find work best, but there is still a lot of hit and mess. On the playback end, I use playlists exclusively:
Metadata Retrieval.jpg
Metadata Retrieval Playlist.jpg
Series Level.jpg
Season Level.jpg

My screenshots show a few extraneous files like <banner>, <logo> and <clearlogo> on the Series Level and the<xxxxxxxxxx.thumb> on the season level. I don't put them in there anymore but the folders that still have these files have never been affected by their presence.

The quirkiest thing I have seen is that Mezzmo will initially populate the playlist and generate the correct poster for a season, until you actually play an episode. At that point, Mezzmo deletes the existing season poster and replaces it with a thumbnail from one of the episodes in that season. Once you set it back manually, it will stay. I believe this occurs 100% of the time but I haven't paid enough attention to say there aren't instances where it doesn't occur.

If you reset your database, you will lose your playlists and any manually entered changes (speaking from experience). But that's a big reason I use locally stored art and .nfo files. If I do have to nuke it from orbit I have to recreate the playlists but the metadata and artwork populates automatically and rather quickly. Then all I have to do is poke around and do a little deep cleaning.

My TMM settings:
TMM Scraper Settings.jpg

I am still using the TVDB and pay the annual fee. There are a few things that I do to get everything set right but I have finally settled on a system. It's been a big learning curve with TV Series. It takes a little extra work and vigilance but it works most of the time and I can usually predict when it won't so that I know what to go in and manually change to get what I want.