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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1172964" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.As IMDB is commercial and it also has no foreign language metadata and no fanart it is no good source for general HTPC usage. That's why all metadata used inside MP2 is grabbed from TMDB, that is open, has fanart and has metadata in many languages... The TMDB- ID also is listed in the address bar. As example:<a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19995-avatar" target="_blank">https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19995-avatar</a>Here 19995 is the ID for the movie "Avatar". Same is for moviesets or series... But the IMDB-ID also can be used to identify a movie on TMDB, at least from inside MP2 (or any other tool using their API). Only if you enter the tt number in the search field on the website this is not working...That is possible as it is written in AutoIt. AutoIt is a programming language and this is up to now not guaranteed to work 100% correct on Windows 10... So any tools written in AutoIt can not be guaranteed to work 100% on Win10. In General all is working as expected, but on very few systems there probably are issues. Aside this, MP2-Edit is no "official" tool as it is using "illegal" methods to manipulate the media library. MP2-Edit is what some would call a "bad hack". The "official" way is still under heavy development right now. Until MP2-Edit is ported to the official methods (I'm working on that right now) it is meant as an additional option to make few corrections. You can not remove or add media items and you also can not edit all database fields... It is possible, but you need to install MP2-Server on this machine too as MP2-Edit needs some parts of the MP2-Server to work. MP2-Server must not run, not even be configured at all, but it must be installed...I'm also not sure how this can happen. But you can get rid of this if you strictly separate movies and series, means do not add media sources that contains both, movies and series to MP2...I have written MP2 Edit on a time as no support for .nfo files were available and the identification from Matroska Tags only was working for movies, not for series. Since this has changed some time ago I did not need MP2-Edit that often as I always have a 100% perfect match with my way of preparing my media collection. Not a single failure on 20.000++ series episodes, 2000 movies and 150.000 music files... I only use it for automated backup of my database and for save and restore the "watched flags". And sometimes I replace some fanart if I don't like the available fanart any longer...If you did not have a recent backup of the database file( s ) you only can delete the database and start from scratch. As you have some strange issues like series appearing in movies maybe it is not that bad idea to start over again. But before you do so, have a close look at your ML and recognize what movies/series are not identified properly. You may have a look at the naming of those files and probably try to add (correct) .nfo files or add matroska metatags (if they are mkv) to them..</blockquote>

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