Maintain Files Not Working As Expected

[Peter]

I tried the same for the twilight zone setting the name and year in the series.xml file and Mezzmo picked up the 1959 version. I will send you the folder with the xml file so you can try it.

[Jeff]

This did not work. I am going to backup my library, delete Mezzmo from my computer and then reinstall Mezzmo. Hopefully the reinstall and the restore library work okay. I will let you know if I am still having the same issue. I will take each step we have discussed in this thread if the reinstall doesn't fix the problem itself.

[Jeff]

After a fresh install, still no luck. At least changing the metadata of the file outsize of Mezzmo seems to be working properly. Not sure what is going on, but at least I can do that.

[Peter]

Please try copying the patch files over the top of the fresh install as the Year in the series.xml will not work without the patch.

[Jeff]

I did that. Still not work. This support can be closed. There is a work around, not preferred of course, but it works.

[Jeff]

Okay, even the work around is not working. For example, I have the TV Show The Middle that started in 2009. The file creation date is in 2020. When maintaining the file, it gives me The Castles of the Middle Ages TV show that apparently started in 2020. When I change the metadata of the file itself to the year 2009, I get a TV Show called The Middle Ages. So, I tried an xml file with series name as The Middle and year as 2009. Still getting the TV Show The Middle Ages.

This is a huge ridiculous problem. When searching for a tv show called the middle (using Mezzmo's get online video metadata), the first show is Malcolm in the Middle. That would at least make more sense to show up as the tv show. But no, I get some obscure show about the middle ages.

There is something seriously wrong with this setup. Do you know of a program that is free that will allow me to bulk change the metadata of a file? I use the regular file properties in Windows to change the year. But, if a program allowed me to change the series name such that Mezzmo recognized that change. And then I could maintain files in the file and get it to find the correct show, that would be okay. Of course, this didn't happen when I first put the show in Mezzmo. So, something is messed up with either Mezzmo on my computer (even though I did a fresh install a few months back) or there is an issue with the servers communicating with my computer.

[Peter]

You could try using Tiny Media Manager . to see if you get better results from the metadata lookup. Putting the series name and year in an xml file in the same folder as the video should get the correct metadata but I also get 'The Middle Ages' when looking up the series using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Series>
<language>en</language>
<SeriesName>The Middle</SeriesName>
<banner>metadata/01.jpg</banner>
<Overview>Series Description</Overview>
<Year>2009</Year>
<imdb>tt1442464</imdb>
</Series>