Mezzmo 5 arrange by alphabet

[mrgenie]

Update: We tested it here and it is working - but is quite slow, which may explain why you are seeing strange/bad results. We've made a few improvements that should make it faster to process. We'll include the fix in the next v5.0 Beta.

Hi Paul, had the beta 2 mezzmo application running all night to found this morning it was still running on the actors.

I thought, ok this takes too long so I remove "actors", reboot the computer, to start beta 2 from a fresh bootet OS. Restarting sometimes helps...
and then re-add actors

While right click and remove "actors" the program crashed.
mezzmo crash.jpg

It was still running "processing... actors" and
system tasks processing active playlists was also still at 1 left (I assume the actors as well)

In my opinion, if one shouldn't delete the playlists while being updated (which makes sense) then the option to remove it during this process should be greyed out.
OR, add a catch exception in case the user removes it, the background worker processes are terminated properly (personally I think this is the best way to go, as it would actually perform the task what the user would want to do AND terminating any related processes)

[Paul]

Thanks for the bug report. We'll reproduce it here & fix this up for the next Beta.

[mrgenie]

Update on the bug report.

After crashing I restarted the computer.
Actors was still there.
After right click - remove it crashed again, this time without background processes running

restarted mezzmo many times now. It's repeatable. trying to delete actors always results in a CTD.

So, I'm going to rebuild the library from scratch, without any actors to begin with, as this is a dead end

btw, i changed actors from your hierarchy back to mine to "experiment" maybe there's the glitch. Doubt that, but it's worth mentioning what I did to be sure the software will be fool proof upon release. Makes me the fool!

[mrgenie]

We've made a few improvements that should make it faster to process.

I noticed in my files, the first actors scraped are almost always the main actors after which the minor or "unknown" actors are listed.

Example: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/...f_=tt_ov_st_sm

Maybe it's possible to limit the amount of actors mezzmo shows for each movie/tv show? I.e. give the user a setting to use a maximum of up to the first 5 actors listed inside the scraped files.
Or 10, or 15. But leave this setting to the user. Default to 5 to make sure the software is more responsive with default settings.

Any random movie I checked at IMDB has 30 or more actors listed. Some even over 100!
Where only 10 would be sufficient in my case and thus for large libraries it should speed up things tremendously if mezzmo only took the first 5, 10 or 15 into consideration?

Just an idea..


btw, my actors list is 40.000 people.
I think cutting this down to 4.000 people by having a setting to limit to use only the first 5 to 10 actors in any movie, would speed up things noticeable.

[mrgenie]

Hierarchy about alphabetical order

I now created 2 lists
first:
Creator / Director
Group by first letter
Group by first word


Second
Group by first letter
Group by first word
Creator / Director

The first one actually creates a huge lists of all directors, then for each director it looks which movies he/she created and then groups those movies under first letter and first word . This is not what I want of course, because I'd have a list of thousands of creators/directors most of them with only 1 o2 creations. So no reason actually to group that.


The second is actually what I want. it groups the directors, so I don't have a list of thousands of directors, but instead
A, B, C...
then under each letter organized per first word
Then under that I get the full name of the directors under each name the list of his/her creators.

So to break large lists of actors, directors, etc. the first proposed hierarchy is not helping. I must have the 2nd hierarchy.

I did put a bug report on the method of hierarchy, because I get names like Aaron as well under the A as under K,
or Seelow under B, etc. So that's already reported.

But it is important, that the advise to use the hierarchy
creator / director
group by first letter
group by first word

as well as
actors
group by first letter
group by first word

is wrong actually, and the hierarchy should be
group by first letter
group by first word
*here comes whatever you want the hierarchy to apply to*