#527 Multiple Movies Sets with the same name

[Janne M]

I have been wrestling with my own movie set names and scraped names. I have a lot. For example these two "Aardman Collection" sets (moviesetcache.xml), one scraped, one my own. Media companion shows them both, Kodi struggles with showing set poster and fanart. Is this a bug or feature? If latter, would it be possible to (automatically) unite all sets with the same name in MC?

I guess my Aardman collection is older than the official Aardman collection.

<movieset title="Aardman Collection">
    <moviesetname>Aardman Collection</moviesetname>
    <id>624521</id>
    <plot>
    </plot>
    <LastUpdatedTs>19210819074506</LastUpdatedTs>
    <DirtyData>True</DirtyData>
    <UserMovieSetName>
    </UserMovieSetName>
    <collection>
        <movietitle>A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon</movietitle>
        <movieid>422803</movieid>
        <backdrop_path>
        </backdrop_path>
        <poster_path>
        </poster_path>
        <release_date>2020-02-14</release_date>
        <year>2019</year>
    </collection>
    <collection>
        <movietitle>Late Lammas: Vauhdilla Jouluun</movietitle>
        <movieid>785545</movieid>
        <backdrop_path>
        </backdrop_path>
        <poster_path>
        </poster_path>
        <release_date>2021-12-03</release_date>
        <year>2021</year>
    </collection>
</movieset>

<movieset title="Wallace &amp; Gromit Collection">
<moviesetname>Wallace & Gromit Collection</moviesetname>
<id>529</id>
<plot>
</plot>
<lastupdatedts>19210819074506</lastupdatedts>
<dirtydata>True</dirtydata>
<usermoviesetname>Aardman Collection</usermoviesetname>
<collection>
<movietitle>The Curse of the Were-Rabbit</movietitle>
<movieid>533</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>2005-10-07</release_date>
<year>2005</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Late Lammas -elokuva</movietitle>
<movieid>263109</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>2015-02-05</release_date>
<year>2015</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Shaun The Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas</movietitle>
<movieid>374252</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>2015-11-13</release_date>
<year>2015</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Suurenmoinen huviretki</movietitle>
<movieid>530</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>1990-05-18</release_date>
<year>1989</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Väärät housut</movietitle>
<movieid>531</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>1993-12-17</release_date>
<year>1993</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Läheltä piti</movietitle>
<movieid>532</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>1995-12-29</release_date>
<year>1995</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Wallace ja Gromit: Paakarin painajainen</movietitle>
<movieid>14447</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>2008-12-26</release_date>
<year>2008</year>
</collection>
<collection>
<movietitle>Special: A Matter Of Loaf & Death - How They Donut</movietitle>
<movieid>0</movieid>
<backdrop_path>
</backdrop_path>
<poster_path>
</poster_path>
<release_date>2008-07-20</release_date>
<year>2008</year>
</collection>
</movieset>

[Rob]

The problem is these collections have two different Collection Id's

I can not find a Aardman Collection on TMDb, but can find the Wallace & Gromit Collection

I feel you need to remove the movies from the Aardman collection, and rescrape them for Wallance & Gromit.

You could in MC change the movies under the Aardman collection to the Wallace & Gromit, in the main browser window, you can select the drop box and change the collection a movie is linked to.

[Janne M]

Yes, that is a workaround. The thing is I have a lot of my own collections for easier movie browsing. Like I put all Anime movies in one collection I call "Anime", instead of having several different anime-type collections "Chost in Shell" and "Akira" and so on and on. And for Example in "Alien" collection I include also Prometheus, just to make browsing easier.
And having done this for a long time, some of my collections are older than some that are in TMDB, and might have bit different movies.
So what I actually want is to be able to overrun the TMDB Movies Set, if I want. And also have MC combine all sets with the same name and ignore movie set id.
Does this seem like a good feature to include in future versions?

[Rob]

Unfortunately this requires manual intervention, so no, not a feature that will be in MC.

You'll have to select the movies, and manually change this to the collection you want them in. This is already possible in Media Companion.

[Janne M]

OK, totally understand and will do the manual labor. Thank you, and thank you for the great software!
Close the ticket, please.

[Rob]

Closing ticket as requested.