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<blockquote data-quote="Guzzi" data-source="post: 604191" data-attributes="member: 55213">AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!Hi Zebons,as requested, I moved the AMCupdater stuff here. Find my findings as follows:1.) Nonstandardcharacters do not work in search (single and batch):When searching either singlemovie infos or launching AMCupdater as batch to update the DB, no results are found, if the searchstring contains specialcharacters like &quot;ä&quot;, &quot;ö&quot;, &quot;ü&quot; - very common in german movietitles. Searching on the website works - so maybe it's a problem with the codepage?Just checked the stringutils.pas script for ANTdb - there is some special handling for those characters, e.g.:// *****{&nbsp; &nbsp; Converts windows-1252 and iso-8859-1 characters to ASCII characters&nbsp; }function Cp1252ToASCII(Value: string): string;begin&nbsp; HTMLDecode(Value);[...]&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ä', 'Z');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'æ', '''');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Æ', '''');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ô', '&quot;');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ö', '&quot;');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ò', '-');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'û', '-');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ù', '-');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ö', '(tm)');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ü', 's');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, '£', 'oe');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, '×', 'z');&nbsp; Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ƒ', 'Y');&nbsp; Result := Value;end;2.) Grabber-scripts with minor errors:e.g.: Actors=&quot;Leonardo DiCaprio&amp;amp;nbsp (Jack Dawson) in CineMotion-script.The grabberscripts are not all up2date, I tried to contact Titof, but didn't yet get a reply. Can you provide me the toolkit to work with the scripts or contact him?3.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure when deleting a single record:AMCupdater changes the structure of the ANT-DB - depending if it's batch-run or single movie update (update of a single record) in a different manner.There is also additional fields dropped in DB, that disappear after opeing and storing the DB with ANT-application.AMCupdater seems to have different behavior on GUI-update-call and direct launching of AMCupdater.exe with same config (I suppose).To explain what happens, I quote a little testDB with the different states:Step 1: adding 1 movie via manual call of AMC-Updater.exe with the created profile via the GUI.Opening and storing the DB in ANT-application does not change the structure - so DB is same after manual storing the DB via AMC-application with only one movie in there:.Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step1-manual update outside MePoGUIAll ok.&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog Format=&quot;35&quot; Version=&quot;3.5.1 (2009-02-01)&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010 17:08:19&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &lt;Catalog&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Properties /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Contents&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;1&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Year=&quot;2006&quot; Country=&quot;USA&quot; Category=&quot;Fantasy, Kom÷die&quot; URL=&quot;http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars&quot; Rating=&quot;6.90&quot; Director=&quot;John Lasseter, Joe Ranft&quot; Description=&quot;...&quot; Picture=&quot;Cars.jpg&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Contents&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;Step 2: Batch Update from Myfilms GUI via AMC-Updater:Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step2-AMCupdater-batch-UpdateAll ok, movie added and data ok.&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog Format=&quot;35&quot; Version=&quot;3.5.1 (2009-02-01)&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010 17:08:19&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &lt;Catalog&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Properties /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Contents&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;1&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Year=&quot;2006&quot; Country=&quot;USA&quot; Category=&quot;Fantasy, Kom÷die&quot; URL=&quot;http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars&quot; Rating=&quot;6.90&quot; Director=&quot;John Lasseter, Joe Ranft&quot; Description=&quot;...&quot; Picture=&quot;Cars.jpg&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Contents&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;Step 3: Delete Movie-Record (only record, not file) from Details-GUI:Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step3-MovieRecordDeleteFromGUI&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog&gt;&lt;Catalog&gt;&lt;Properties /&gt;&lt;Contents&gt;&lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;DateAdded&gt;2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00&lt;/DateAdded&gt;&lt;Length_Num&gt;0&lt;/Length_Num&gt;&lt;/Movie&gt;&lt;/Contents&gt;&lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;Findings:- It seems, the linebreaks are not written properly - although ANT-application can read the file, it's shown in editor all in one line.- Two new properties are written in the DB plus a &quot;&lt;/movie&gt; endtag:&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;DateAdded&gt;2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00&lt;/DateAdded&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Length_Num&gt;0&lt;/Length_Num&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Movie&gt;Manually putting linebreaks in above file shows like this:&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Catalog&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Properties /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Contents&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; [...] Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;DateAdded&gt;2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00&lt;/DateAdded&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Length_Num&gt;0&lt;/Length_Num&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Movie&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Contents&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;Step4: Open and save DB in ANT-application:Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step4-OpenAndStoreWithANT-ApplOpening this file with ANT-application and storing let those additional infos disappear:&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog Format=&quot;35&quot; Version=&quot;3.5.1 (2009-02-01)&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010 18:16:25&quot;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;Catalog&gt;&nbsp; &lt;Properties/&gt;&nbsp; &lt;Contents&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; [...] Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/Contents&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;So what about those 3 additional infos? Are they required for something? I use ANT-application regulary to update certain details etc., so those infos would always get lost. Or better not even writing them, if they're not required.3a.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure in Online Updates for &quot;Single-Movie-Mode&quot;Similar to the &quot;delete&quot;, the DB also gets similar changed on &quot;SingleUpdates&quot;.Step5: Updating the File from Step4 above results in the structure below; the extra infos are added again.&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog&gt;&lt;Catalog&gt;&lt;Properties /&gt;&lt;Contents&gt;&lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; Rating=&quot;7.0&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Titanic (Titanic)&quot; Director=&quot;James Cameron&quot; Country=&quot;USA&quot; Category=&quot;Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik&quot; Year=&quot;1997&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; Actors=&quot;Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde, Suzy Amis&quot; URL=&quot;http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic&quot; Description=&quot;Die Geschichte der Titanic und ihres Untergang im Atlantik auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt am 15. April 1912. 1700 Menschen waren an Bord des Dampfers, als er...&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; Picture=&quot;Titanic.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;DateAdded&gt;2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00&lt;/DateAdded&gt;&lt;Length_Num&gt;0&lt;/Length_Num&gt;&lt;/Movie&gt;&lt;/Contents&gt;&lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;4.) AMCupdater started standalone updates existing movies with new moviepath, overwriting old record:This is the problem on top of this thread, just repeated here.I updated the DB, that had Titanic.wmv already in there with a second movie with name &quot;Titaniv (Directors Cut).wmv) - the old movie is still there!While scanning the internetdata, AMCupdater aksks for matching movie - which is the same title, as the one already in the DB - and overwrites the existing record with the new data.The behavior should be as in old AMCupdater 0.8 verion:- The key is the filename, not the movietitle.- So, AMCupdater can recognize &quot;moved files&quot; and update the record accordingly, but new files with different names wuld be recognized as new movies and ADDED, not overwriting the old record with it's still existing movie.As far as I know, old AMCupdater always took Movienumers increasing - in this example, it should have taken &quot;4&quot; for the TitanicDirectorsCut - and keep the normal Titanicmovie on record &quot;2&quot;.You can do this test with 0.8 version, which works exactly like this.Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step7-adding2moviesWithAMCupdaterstandalone&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;Windows-1252&quot;?&gt;&lt;AntMovieCatalog Format=&quot;35&quot; Version=&quot;3.5.1 (2009-02-01)&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010 18:16:25&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &lt;Catalog&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Properties /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Contents&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;3&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Cars&quot; Year=&quot;2006&quot; Country=&quot;USA&quot; Category=&quot;Fantasy, Kom÷die&quot; URL=&quot;http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars&quot; Rating=&quot;6.90&quot; Director=&quot;John Lasseter, Joe Ranft&quot; Description=&quot;...&quot; Picture=&quot;Cars.jpg&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Movie Number=&quot;2&quot; Checked=&quot;True&quot; MediaLabel=&quot;Server&quot; MediaType=&quot;HDD&quot; Source=&quot;C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic (Directors cut).wmv&quot; Date=&quot;10.04.2010&quot; OriginalTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; TranslatedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; FormattedTitle=&quot;Titanic&quot; Length=&quot;0&quot; VideoFormat=&quot;WMV3&quot; VideoBitrate=&quot;1500&quot; AudioFormat=&quot;WMA2&quot; AudioBitrate=&quot;192&quot; Resolution=&quot;320x240&quot; Framerate=&quot;30.000&quot; Languages=&quot;English (US)&quot; Size=&quot;0&quot; Disks=&quot;1&quot; Year=&quot;1997&quot; Country=&quot;USA&quot; Category=&quot;Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik&quot; URL=&quot;http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic&quot; Rating=&quot;6.960&quot; Director=&quot;James Cameron&quot; Actors=&quot;... &quot; Description=&quot;...&quot; Picture=&quot;Titanic.jpg&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Contents&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/Catalog&gt;&lt;/AntMovieCatalog&gt;Guzzi</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guzzi, post: 604191, member: 55213"] [b]AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available![/b] Hi Zebons, as requested, I moved the AMCupdater stuff here. Find my findings as follows: 1.) Nonstandardcharacters do not work in search (single and batch): When searching either singlemovie infos or launching AMCupdater as batch to update the DB, no results are found, if the searchstring contains specialcharacters like "ä", "ö", "ü" - very common in german movietitles. Searching on the website works - so maybe it's a problem with the codepage? Just checked the stringutils.pas script for ANTdb - there is some special handling for those characters, e.g.: // ***** { Converts windows-1252 and iso-8859-1 characters to ASCII characters } function Cp1252ToASCII(Value: string): string; begin HTMLDecode(Value); [...] Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ä', 'Z'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'æ', ''''); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Æ', ''''); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ô', '"'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ö', '"'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ò', '-'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'û', '-'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ù', '-'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ö', '(tm)'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ü', 's'); Value := StringReplace(Value, '£', 'oe'); Value := StringReplace(Value, '×', 'z'); Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ƒ', 'Y'); Result := Value; end; 2.) Grabber-scripts with minor errors: e.g.: Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio&nbsp (Jack Dawson) in CineMotion-script. The grabberscripts are not all up2date, I tried to contact Titof, but didn't yet get a reply. Can you provide me the toolkit to work with the scripts or contact him? 3.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure when deleting a single record: AMCupdater changes the structure of the ANT-DB - depending if it's batch-run or single movie update (update of a single record) in a different manner. There is also additional fields dropped in DB, that disappear after opeing and storing the DB with ANT-application. AMCupdater seems to have different behavior on GUI-update-call and direct launching of AMCupdater.exe with same config (I suppose). To explain what happens, I quote a little testDB with the different states: Step 1: adding 1 movie via manual call of AMC-Updater.exe with the created profile via the GUI. Opening and storing the DB in ANT-application does not change the structure - so DB is same after manual storing the DB via AMC-application with only one movie in there:. Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step1-manual update outside MePoGUI All ok. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19"> <Catalog> <Properties /> <Contents> <Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" /> </Contents> </Catalog> </AntMovieCatalog> Step 2: Batch Update from Myfilms GUI via AMC-Updater: Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step2-AMCupdater-batch-Update All ok, movie added and data ok. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19"> <Catalog> <Properties /> <Contents> <Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" /> <Movie Number="2" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" /> </Contents> </Catalog> </AntMovieCatalog> Step 3: Delete Movie-Record (only record, not file) from Details-GUI: Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step3-MovieRecordDeleteFromGUI <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog> Findings: - It seems, the linebreaks are not written properly - although ANT-application can read the file, it's shown in editor all in one line. - Two new properties are written in the DB plus a "</movie> endtag: <DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded> <Length_Num>0</Length_Num> </Movie> Manually putting linebreaks in above file shows like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <AntMovieCatalog> <Catalog> <Properties /> <Contents> <Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1"> <DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded> <Length_Num>0</Length_Num> </Movie> </Contents> </Catalog> </AntMovieCatalog> Step4: Open and save DB in ANT-application: Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step4-OpenAndStoreWithANT-Appl Opening this file with ANT-application and storing let those additional infos disappear: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25"> <Catalog> <Properties/> <Contents> <Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1"/> </Contents> </Catalog> </AntMovieCatalog> So what about those 3 additional infos? Are they required for something? I use ANT-application regulary to update certain details etc., so those infos would always get lost. Or better not even writing them, if they're not required. 3a.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure in Online Updates for "Single-Movie-Mode" Similar to the "delete", the DB also gets similar changed on "SingleUpdates". Step5: Updating the File from Step4 above results in the structure below; the extra infos are added again. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" Rating="7.0" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic (Titanic)" Director="James Cameron" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" Year="1997" Length="0" Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde, Suzy Amis" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Description="Die Geschichte der Titanic und ihres Untergang im Atlantik auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt am 15. April 1912. 1700 Menschen waren an Bord des Dampfers, als er..." VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Picture="Titanic.jpg"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog> 4.) AMCupdater started standalone updates existing movies with new moviepath, overwriting old record: This is the problem on top of this thread, just repeated here. I updated the DB, that had Titanic.wmv already in there with a second movie with name "Titaniv (Directors Cut).wmv) - the old movie is still there! While scanning the internetdata, AMCupdater aksks for matching movie - which is the same title, as the one already in the DB - and overwrites the existing record with the new data. The behavior should be as in old AMCupdater 0.8 verion: - The key is the filename, not the movietitle. - So, AMCupdater can recognize "moved files" and update the record accordingly, but new files with different names wuld be recognized as new movies and ADDED, not overwriting the old record with it's still existing movie. As far as I know, old AMCupdater always took Movienumers increasing - in this example, it should have taken "4" for the TitanicDirectorsCut - and keep the normal Titanicmovie on record "2". You can do this test with 0.8 version, which works exactly like this. Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step7-adding2moviesWithAMCupdaterstandalone <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25"> <Catalog> <Properties /> <Contents> <Movie Number="3" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" /> <Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic (Directors cut).wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Year="1997" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Rating="6.960" Director="James Cameron" Actors="... " Description="..." Picture="Titanic.jpg" /> </Contents> </Catalog> </AntMovieCatalog> Guzzi [/QUOTE]

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