Activity for Media Companion
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lee posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
here is a snapshot of a movie and artwork alone with it
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Rob posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
https://sourceforge.net/p/mediacompanion/wiki/Movies/ you really need yo check out the wiki. Left column of the picture lists your movie collections. The red X indicates you have not set to download collection images. The right list shows the movies that belong to the selected collection, showing which movies you have, and which ones are missing.
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I scrapped all of the movies, but in the movie settings tab, it shows this, what's the issue here. how would i go by fixing this if so
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I scrapped all of the movies, but in the movie settings tab, it shows this, what's the issue here
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Is the info there in Media Companion, if so then Kodi source hasn't been set properly. please check kodi help for setting up library.
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The artwork shows up, but the information of the movie don't show up
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In Kodi after you add a source, eg, Movies.you then need to set the content for that source, and set the info source as local nfo. Then do a library update will scan the source and create the Library.
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I have Kodi on my Pi connected to my TV I have Kodi install on my PC so i can test everything before connecting to my TV. I loaded up my videos in Kodi but it wouldn't create a library. Do, i need to add the .mp4 at the end of the video
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Have you got Get episode Ratings from IMDb enabled? If so, please unselect. IMDb is not available at present. Also, what is your TV series source? TVDb or TMDb?
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Thomas Robinson posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Titles sums it up... past week I've added 3 series to my drive, and not getting any ratings scraped.
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We're all over the place with the errors. the year of 1901 is set because the move failed to scrape. Use Change Movie tab to pick and scrape the right movie from TMDb.
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I have here two movies It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) and Still Smokin (1983) Some how, i tried to scrape them, But the movie "still smoking (1983) It shows up in the scraper "still smoking (1983) (1901). where that came from, i don't know. The folder and the video inside of it's folder is named right Still Smokin (1983)
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Unselect all options to scrape from IMDb as this is currently not available. Change Actor source to TMDb, then select a couple of movies together, right click, select Rescrape Specific -> Actors Hopefully you should see an .actors folder in each movie folder.
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I finally got it straight, but when i do scrape the videos, i later go over to the drive that they stored on for Kodi, the folder when the actors stored on, is not there, but here's the thing, why is it that it won't create a folder for the collection of the actors of the movie, but when i do a re-scrape it then creates the folder for the actors.
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i finally got it going. So i loaded the main folder with is my MOVIE folder that has each movie folder of that movie. So i was doing good. I went to my drive of my media on it to check everything but one issue, the folder that contains the actors wasn't even there. So in other words, i'm missing the folder with all the actors stored
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sure. movie and TV folders Movie folder Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015) mp4
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sure. movie and TV folders Movie folder Movie mp4
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sure.
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sure
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sure
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Ignore last message. can you post a screenshot of your folder structure please.
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Media Companion doesn't link to external converter. can you advise exact steps how this link appeared?
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up file:///C:/Users/leigh/Downloads/Media%20Companion.jpg
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up file:///C:/Users/leigh/Downloads/Media%20Companion.jpg
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up https://www.freeconvert.com/heic-to-jpg?utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=image%20file%20converter%20to%20jpg&utm_campaign=asc_spcific_abt_file_size_copied&utm_content=182591669444&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22666691496&gclid=CjwKCAjwzLHPBhBTEiwABaLsSv4UO5E_TJ19P4oLR7jnYk4ll7hjZYk9Bg1gUjZNrvVU6pA_QBk8fBoCwlIQAvD_BwE
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for fanart.tv images, you will need each movie to be in its own folder. ie z:\Movies\Dallas Buyers Club\Dallas Buyers Club.mkv
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First i spent over a year upgading my videos. Clearer and 1920x1080, got that. So now i'm using MC to scrape all my video. Started with my Movies, I loaded my Movie folder that has all my folders for each one of the movie. So i go over to Fanart.Tv but this message pops up "Selected Movie is in the Media Folder Unable to save artwork from Fanart Tv. to the root folder suggest rename movie to the folder to be compatible with Artwork Downloader"
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I use a mix of TVDb and TMDb for Series. For Movies, TMDb. At this time IMDb is unavailable...I am working on this presently, but there are no promises IMDb will return as it once was.
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When using MC for scrapping for actors and info about the movie or TV Show TVDb, IMDb, TMDb, which would be the best.
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[#541] IMDB scraping is currently non‑functional due to the enforcement a web application firewall on imdb.com
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Chris B posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Just tried 3 movies, no outline or plots for any new movie. I guess they changed something again?
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taking time to build end-point for imdbapi.dev access. But note: There will be quite a few items no longer able to be scraped from IMDb, but I will post a list when this is complete.
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James Kirk posted a comment on ticket #541
Rob is there any rough time schedule for this update (IMDB function is totally broken now)?
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Not for TV. I always say, if info is missing from TMDb or TVDb, pay it forward and add the missing info.
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No, I have another source for IMDb info, but it will mean we can't get all the info that IMDb has on its pages.
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Oneirus Elio posted a comment on ticket #541
Does this mean the end of Media Companion or the end of using IMDB for scraping?
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kolby created ticket #545
Add fallback option if no actors available
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Same info as OMDBApi, but without a required API Key. So both IMDBAPI and OMDBAPI get there data from IMDb's Non-Commercial Dataset https://developer.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/ But that does not give all the info we were getting from deep in IMDb's pages. Still, I like to have alternative sources, so I'll investigate.
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Use IMDBApi.dev as alternative to imdb scraper
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lazaruslong67 posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Actually no rush - I was able to pull the code down and do a quick build. Working great so far!
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I'll try for this weekend
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No there is nothing in Tv section that is IMDb apart from get episode plot if available. Keywords are only available if series is scraped from TMDb from what I recall.
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Tushar Bhutt posted a comment on ticket #541
Thank you for the honesty; it must suck to have taken over something and not have access to all the material AND not have the tools to rebuild. And I would not trust an AI tool for it either :)
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Any idea on when the new version will be released? Thanks!
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Ah, that's a shame. Should I change anything in the TV section as well to avoid IMDB issues?
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I have scraped this movie and keywords are working from TMDb/ So since IMDb scraping is not working anymore, please unselect all options to get keywords from IMDB, basically everything in the box title Scrape the following from IMDb - uncheck
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While I would like to say yes, that is a great hint....MC is coded in Dot Net 4.0. I would need to convert MC up to Dot Net 4.8....which is where the problem lies. We have some legacy 3rd party code that is locked at dot net 4.0, no access to the source material. I have been looking at how to transition to 4.8, but when I do, I get over a thousand errors pop up, and I'm just not that good at coding to get past them for now.
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Maybe this solution from Ember could be of use? Unsure :/ https://github.com/nagten/Ember-MM-Newscraper/releases/tag/1.11.1.9
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Had this with TV and ended up being that number of keywords got set to 0 from 5 somehow, so I checked that first and the number is still set to 5 for movies and for tv series. Last half dozen movies I've scraped, no tags/keywords. As always, delete cache/missing/seriesxml folders, deleted the contents of one of the movie folders (except .mkv and .srt) opened the app and did a refresh for movies then tv series. Recraped the movie and same... everything looks ok just no tags.
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I feel this is an issue with which ever rating/votes source is the primary. eg we can store TMDb, IMDb, and Rotten tomatoe rating and votes, but I am unsure which one the data would be saved to if manually set in MC. <ratings> <rating name="imdb" max="10" default="true"> <value>8.200000</value> <votes>1023900</votes> </rating> <rating name="metacritic" max="10"> <value>7.200000</value> <votes>14</votes> </rating> <rating name="themoviedb" max="10"> <value>7.800000</value> <votes>12052</votes> </rating>...
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I had this happen to me once, just yesterday, but all other movies renamed correctly before and after, so put it down to a glitch.
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Wayne Davis created ticket #543
movie scraper blanking out title
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Not saving manually edited rating information
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Very bad!
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Looks to be the end of getting data directly from IMDb. From all testing and research, IMDb have added another layer to their protection from data mining, stopping a number of apps and sited gathering data directly from their pages. As their API is Commercial, there in only access from OMDBAPi for basic IMDb movie data. End of an era.
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Yes, looks like large changes at IMDb. I can get to IMDb for a movie, Will try and work on this over the weekend....hopefully sooner.
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Movies don't seem to access IMDB or Movie DB
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Probably a change IMBd have done. I'll look into it.
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Anthony Bennett created ticket #540
3.7.7.3 | Movie Plot scraping issues
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Very good, ty.
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I know it doesn't upscale but usually if bigger than 1000x1500 (sometimes they're 2000x3000) it downscales to 1500, if it's under that size it stays that size. Isn't that correct? For example, FALLING SKIES tv series, the season posters are 680x1000 but are saving at 400x578. So, I clicked to not resize at all. Same issue. However, I started clicking through all the images and half were resizing to 400x578, and half were staying at 680x1000. I wonder if the ones resizing were uploaded by the same...
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I did some tests and checking, and found for one Series, the posters were all over the place in size from the source TMDb, as well as TVDB. Just to be clear, MC does not upscale images, os if you have a poster at source that is 771 x 1100, MC will not upscale to 1000x1500. But it will downscale a 2000x3000 poster to the set size of 1000x1500. As for Actor images, TMDb supplies larger actor images than TVDb. MC returned Peter Dinklage from TMDb at 1000x1500, but TVDb only supplied actor images at...
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Nothings changed in that section, haven't had to go into the resized code in some time. I'll check it out soon, but can you test by changing the realize to another setting, and download a poster, then change back to your preferred sizing and download a new poster.
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I have my posters set to max 1500, actors 720 under Common Settings. Never been an issue before but today I noticed I'm saving season posters that are 680x1000 and they're being shrunk to 400x578 and kinda blurry. Did I accidentally click a setting somewhere? I looked at ones from last week and they show 680x1000.
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Movie - Add Rescrape specific option rescrape extra fanart/thumb images.
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So Extrathumb folder are only created if and when there is an image to be saved, and the folder doesn't exist. Creating an empty folder is as a place-holder is not productive, just another folder to open and check by MC. MC checked to see if the folder exists, if not, continues to next movie. So at this time, no, MC will not be creating an empty folder.
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Rescrape Specific -> Rescrape Extra Fanart/Thumbs Has been added to the context menu. Will be in the next release of MC
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Worked on this function today, will be in the next release. New option in Music Video Preferences, prefer MusicVideo section over Overview.
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MV - Improve retrieval from WikiPedia. MV = Add option to prefer Music Video section from Wikipedia over Overview.
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TV - Added Absolute order TVDb only.
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Much appreciated, if nothing comes of it, not a big deal. Thanks for reviewing. Best, Chris
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I'll see what can be done.
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Better late than never. Added Absolute order to MC, will be in the next release.
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I'm using it as a permanent lock as MC does all the data handling, the big thing is I never know if I pick up say 40 with missing banners, then I get pissed and say scrape all, then one of the groups like say friday the 13th is 19 titles deep, and I lose 15 and 17 because of it... The issue is, how do I know which are lock and/or not... but your method makes sense for what it should have been applied for... but with so many series, movies, locking makes more sense... is there anyway to add a field...
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There is no back-end log of what is locked. I didn't add this feature, but suspect the idea was to lock the data for a specific movie, then do a rescrape, then unlock it.
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OMG, that is a feature I've never used, tunnel vision on my end... I see it locks the cell so it is great that it is already included, I've used this so much, I just glossed over it or understood the how and why to use... so thanks for the primer. I don't want to make more work, but I have a logic question about it. How do you track and trace which files these are active with outside of only clicking on the movie to see? My "nice to have" would be a report (log like scraper) to list and show which...
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Sorry for late reply. This is already in MC. Done per movie. right click a movie, and go to Lock Specific, choose Sort Title Then right click the movie and select Rescrape All Movie will rescrape but keep the Sort Title. After, right click the movie, go to Unlock Specific, click Sort Title The idea of Rescrape all, is just this. To keep the IMDB Id or TMDb Id, and rescrape all data.
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Just wondering if you were able to do anything with the Music Video section? I tested the latest release and it didn't seem to pull that section in. Thanks for all your hard work!
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Yup, thanks! Though ugh... more 8bit vids in my collection than I thought. Lots of work ahead. :)
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Upon cleanup and repair of the cert thing, I notice that some of my titles sort order got rescraped in the process. Does MC have a setting or could it get one, where you can rescrape all but the sort title? Typically this does not need to be reworked even if you want to "refresh" the entire movie... Franchises like terminator, mission impossible, usually those are retools like Terminator 1,2,3 to keep the sort order right. Rescrape all nukes that and content refresh is not always ideal when you're...
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I just tested, and not happening for me. I've never seen this before. I'm sure I would have heard if anyone was having problems in this area.
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Boodahbellie posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
See episode 6. The NFO and JPG are not removed after renaming occurs. This happens about 80% of the time on scrapes for new epsiodes. [image: {BD453D0B-83C5-4A7F-8506-2C3CCDB66216}.png] -- Sean D.
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and extra thumbs! Thanks.
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So just tested with s01e01, and got these eight actors. <dateadded>2020-10-31 00:00:00</dateadded> <actor> <name>Jinkx Monsoon</name> <role>Martha (voice)</role> <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/idHAbERujrotyMtzWYtLujioymO.jpg</thumb> </actor> <actor> <name>Mara Wilson</name> <role>Mrs. Mayberry (voice)</role> <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/1nhOc2os4LS76OHLyjnsD8oXc3I.jpg</thumb> </actor> <actor> <name>Maxwell Atoms</name> <role>Ralphie / Jarold / Additional Voices (voice)</role>...
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For this, use the HDR filter. Movies not in the HDR filter, are 8 bit or less. Movies in the HDR filter are greater than 8 bit. Hope this helps.
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At this time the filter isn't a happening thing. But I completely forgot about adding the rescrape extra fanart option. Will add to my do to list.
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Is there a way to filter my movie list to show only movies with 8bit colour vs 10bit? Trying to update my files with 10bit for better gradients and less banding.
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Just checking on this particular one, any headway or thoughts on this? Just wondering as I could have used it yesterday having to fix some stuff with the MPAA thing. Best, Chris
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Of course... I repaired all my files and now I can't find a sample of it.... ugg...LOL. When/If it happens again, I'll provide an update here, thanks for getting back to me.
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I will try and look into this later today.
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MPAA or as now known on IMDb as MPA, is still available, but the formatted result is at the whim of IMDb. I can only scrape what they provide, and they keep changing their page formatting, and displayed data. I tested with a couple of movies and MC was pulling the displayed MPA result on those movies If you are getting different results, please check Imdb page and confirm, and let me know movie title so I can try to reproduce.
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It only resolves itself if you delete the actors that arent part of main cast in the tvshow.nfo then when you rescrape the episode actors the issue is fixed for the roles. the same thing happes for IMDB as well only resolves itself if you delete stuff that isnt part of the episode in the tvshow.nfo. Its not a huge issue i dont mind deleting the actors from the nfo but some people might not like doing that.
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It only resolves itself if you delete the actors that arent part of main cast in the tvshow.nfo then when you rescrape the episode actors the issue is fixed for the roles.
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Yep still deffinelty an issue since half the characters it scraped for the episode for the role s werent even in the episode.
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Im still having this issue its not scraping all the roles for the episodes since i just scraped S01E01 from Helluva Boss. It scraped the actor and role as Jinkx Monsoon- Vikki (voice) when it should of scapedthe actor and role as Jinkx Monsoon - Martha / Additional Voices (voice). It does this for all episodes it only scrapes the first role the actor played in the series and not all of them. This is still for TMDB.
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Im still having this issue its not scraping all the roles for the episodes since i just scraped S01E01 from Helluva Boss. It scraped the actor and role as Jinkx Monsoon- Vikki (voice) when it should of scapedthe actor and role as Jinkx Monsoon - Martha / Additional Voices (voice). It does this for all episodes it only scrapes the first role the actor played in the series and not all of them.
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Not sure if memory serves, but wasn't there an option at one point where you can force only one type of cert? I keep getting mixed modes of PG-13, R and 15, 18, 18+. Not that it is bad, but I like consistency and since I live in the US, it would be nice if MC could honor my choice of write as MPAA only since those are the ratings I understand natively vs. alternates. I could swear you could force a one type only and not preferrence waterfall. Am I missing something?
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Screen Doesn't Fit
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Fixed and new release is out now. Sorry about that.
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