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There are only a few series metadata to be found in the MP2 DB itself. This are TVDB-ID, IMDB-ID, Series and Episodes Title, Season and Episodes Nr and the episodes plot. All other metadata and the fanart itself are stored only in the Cache on file system. On Series level the only fields that are read from DB are the both ID fields and the name of the series. If no TVDBID can be fond nothing else can be displayed. Not a fault of MP2-Edit, it's a limitation of the incomplete implementation of series in MP2. So we don't have any series plot showing up in GUI, no Fanart while in season view,...
When there is no information shown then there is an error in your Database. In first post I've tried to explain that the TVDB ID is needed to be present for every episode. Normally this is scrapped during import. Sometimes this fails for various reasons. One reason may be the ugly performance of TVDB.com, another may be the "user friendly" behaviour of MP2 not to import anything if the Importer can't get a unique match. For one series I was forced to name the series folder to a Swedish name (English or German name wasn't unique, so MP2 did not find anything for those series), just to make the series unique and scrapable to MP2. Not an ideal situation, but I have a lot of hopes in the re-factoring of MIAs and the whole ML structure... Luckily MPTVSeries can handle "foreign" series names without issues, so on both, MP1 and MP2 this series was shown with German name, title and descriptions in GUI... Did not try Kodi on this series jet, maybe this will lead to issues, I don't know...
Then you need to fix this errors prior to work on the ML. Normally only a few episodes are without TVDBID. Then MP2-Edit will show the TVDBID and the "red X" near to the ID. Now you only need to refresh the series by clicking on "OK" in Series tree and all is well...
But if there is no TVDBID at all then not a single one of the episodes from this series in your ML have got an ID. This really is bad as the import completely fails for this series. If you are lucky an earlier Import for this series had worked so the metadata are available in file cache. If you now manually enter the TVDBID in the field and refresh the series, Metadata and fanart may appear. But if not, the only way to get this working is to remove the whole series from your import path, start an import to delete the faulty DB entries, add the series to your import path again and do another import, hoping this time it did not fail. I'm not aware of another method to get this reimported. It's a limitation of the current ML, that hopefully will be changed in near future...
Another problem is theTVDB.com itself. This page never was too reliable at all, but at the moment the site is more often not responding than answering. They are working on the page but it will last another month or so until those extreme performance issues are solved. I'm not sure if they really will be solved ever... I can't await the day where TheMovieDB can be a real alternative to the "Diva" TVDB, like it is for (way too much commercial) IMDB regarding movies right now.
There are only a few series metadata to be found in the MP2 DB itself. This are TVDB-ID, IMDB-ID, Series and Episodes Title, Season and Episodes Nr and the episodes plot. All other metadata and the fanart itself are stored only in the Cache on file system. On Series level the only fields that are read from DB are the both ID fields and the name of the series. If no TVDBID can be fond nothing else can be displayed. Not a fault of MP2-Edit, it's a limitation of the incomplete implementation of series in MP2. So we don't have any series plot showing up in GUI, no Fanart while in season view,...
When there is no information shown then there is an error in your Database. In first post I've tried to explain that the TVDB ID is needed to be present for every episode. Normally this is scrapped during import. Sometimes this fails for various reasons. One reason may be the ugly performance of TVDB.com, another may be the "user friendly" behaviour of MP2 not to import anything if the Importer can't get a unique match. For one series I was forced to name the series folder to a Swedish name (English or German name wasn't unique, so MP2 did not find anything for those series), just to make the series unique and scrapable to MP2. Not an ideal situation, but I have a lot of hopes in the re-factoring of MIAs and the whole ML structure... Luckily MPTVSeries can handle "foreign" series names without issues, so on both, MP1 and MP2 this series was shown with German name, title and descriptions in GUI... Did not try Kodi on this series jet, maybe this will lead to issues, I don't know...
Then you need to fix this errors prior to work on the ML. Normally only a few episodes are without TVDBID. Then MP2-Edit will show the TVDBID and the "red X" near to the ID. Now you only need to refresh the series by clicking on "OK" in Series tree and all is well...
But if there is no TVDBID at all then not a single one of the episodes from this series in your ML have got an ID. This really is bad as the import completely fails for this series. If you are lucky an earlier Import for this series had worked so the metadata are available in file cache. If you now manually enter the TVDBID in the field and refresh the series, Metadata and fanart may appear. But if not, the only way to get this working is to remove the whole series from your import path, start an import to delete the faulty DB entries, add the series to your import path again and do another import, hoping this time it did not fail. I'm not aware of another method to get this reimported. It's a limitation of the current ML, that hopefully will be changed in near future...
Another problem is theTVDB.com itself. This page never was too reliable at all, but at the moment the site is more often not responding than answering. They are working on the page but it will last another month or so until those extreme performance issues are solved. I'm not sure if they really will be solved ever... I can't await the day where TheMovieDB can be a real alternative to the "Diva" TVDB, like it is for (way too much commercial) IMDB regarding movies right now.
