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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1227681" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p></p><p>I'm absolutely sure they were imported into the media library. But for some reasons they couldn't be identified as the movie you want them to be identified. This could be caused by an endless number of reasons so it's impossible to say what exactly didn't work. Nevertheless they are imported as "Videos" (every movie is a video at first). So I'm sure you will find all the "missing" movies in the "Videos" or "Browse Media" section of MP2. And as they are imported already, a second, third, fourth,... attempt did not help at all, as already imported files are not re-imported...</p><p></p><p>If you want a 100% match at first attempt you have 3 options: </p><p></p><p>A) You can add the tt- number (IMDB-ID) to the file name. </p><p></p><p>B) You can tag the tt number into Matroska metatags, similar to audio tagging (ID3 Tags), but only working for MKV containers...</p><p></p><p>C) You can use .nfo files. </p><p></p><p>As long as at least one of the points above is valid, MP2 will recognize the movies without any errors.</p><p>MP2 can read all common nfo files, no matter if they are generated by Kodi, tiny MediaManager, Ember MediaManager, MKV-Buddy, MovPicNfo,...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, this definitely is possible in MP2 since a long time already: </p><p>Lords Of The Rings:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]192214[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>The Hunger Games:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]192215[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>The Twilight Saga:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]192216[/ATTACH] </p><p>It did not matter at all, if you are using cover flow, grid or list views, the sorting is completely independent of the view (or the skin).</p><p>I can add nearly unlimited examples, if you need. But this only is possible if the "sorttitle" tag is filled properly. When you relay on online sources only, you will get the sorttitle filled at maximum with the movieset name. Most of the time it isn't filled at all. So how should MP2 know in which order you want them? </p><p>For such things (including a 100% perfect automatic match for every movie and every series episode) best is to use .nfo files. Moving Pictures (and MP2 of course) is supporting .nfo files. There even is a tool (named movpicnfo) to generate them from your MovPic database. This way I have transferred metadata for my movies from MovPic to MP2 some years ago. Sadly TVSeries is not able to use .nfo as it also is not able to use e.g. fanart.tv, TMDB,... A very limited plugin.... I'm really happy that I could drop TVSeries, really, really happy. MovingPictures on the other side is a good plugin, I would like to see some of it's nice features in MP2 too... </p><p></p><p>When I get a fresh new movie (or series episode) I prepare it with MKV-Buddy. It can (if I want and it is necessary) transcode or remux the file and it adds local fanart and .nfo files to hundreds (thousands,...) of movies with one single mouse click. MKV-Buddy adds the movieset together with the year and the month into the sorttite field. This way every movie will have a proper filled sorttitle and you will get the files listed in the "logical" order as you can see in my examples...</p><p></p><p>I have around 1600 Movies and more than 30.000 series episodes and never got a single failure during import, because I've prepared my videos properly. Of course you can use MP2 without .nfo files or tt- numbers but you never will get a perfect result as long as you only need to relay on online grabbing of metadata. This isn't working for MP1, Kodi, Emby, Plex,... so how on earth this should work on MP2...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1227681, member: 109222"] Hi. I'm absolutely sure they were imported into the media library. But for some reasons they couldn't be identified as the movie you want them to be identified. This could be caused by an endless number of reasons so it's impossible to say what exactly didn't work. Nevertheless they are imported as "Videos" (every movie is a video at first). So I'm sure you will find all the "missing" movies in the "Videos" or "Browse Media" section of MP2. And as they are imported already, a second, third, fourth,... attempt did not help at all, as already imported files are not re-imported... If you want a 100% match at first attempt you have 3 options: A) You can add the tt- number (IMDB-ID) to the file name. B) You can tag the tt number into Matroska metatags, similar to audio tagging (ID3 Tags), but only working for MKV containers... C) You can use .nfo files. As long as at least one of the points above is valid, MP2 will recognize the movies without any errors. MP2 can read all common nfo files, no matter if they are generated by Kodi, tiny MediaManager, Ember MediaManager, MKV-Buddy, MovPicNfo,... Oh, this definitely is possible in MP2 since a long time already: Lords Of The Rings: [ATTACH=full]192214[/ATTACH] The Hunger Games: [ATTACH=full]192215[/ATTACH] The Twilight Saga: [ATTACH=full]192216[/ATTACH] It did not matter at all, if you are using cover flow, grid or list views, the sorting is completely independent of the view (or the skin). I can add nearly unlimited examples, if you need. But this only is possible if the "sorttitle" tag is filled properly. When you relay on online sources only, you will get the sorttitle filled at maximum with the movieset name. Most of the time it isn't filled at all. So how should MP2 know in which order you want them? For such things (including a 100% perfect automatic match for every movie and every series episode) best is to use .nfo files. Moving Pictures (and MP2 of course) is supporting .nfo files. There even is a tool (named movpicnfo) to generate them from your MovPic database. This way I have transferred metadata for my movies from MovPic to MP2 some years ago. Sadly TVSeries is not able to use .nfo as it also is not able to use e.g. fanart.tv, TMDB,... A very limited plugin.... I'm really happy that I could drop TVSeries, really, really happy. MovingPictures on the other side is a good plugin, I would like to see some of it's nice features in MP2 too... When I get a fresh new movie (or series episode) I prepare it with MKV-Buddy. It can (if I want and it is necessary) transcode or remux the file and it adds local fanart and .nfo files to hundreds (thousands,...) of movies with one single mouse click. MKV-Buddy adds the movieset together with the year and the month into the sorttite field. This way every movie will have a proper filled sorttitle and you will get the files listed in the "logical" order as you can see in my examples... I have around 1600 Movies and more than 30.000 series episodes and never got a single failure during import, because I've prepared my videos properly. Of course you can use MP2 without .nfo files or tt- numbers but you never will get a perfect result as long as you only need to relay on online grabbing of metadata. This isn't working for MP1, Kodi, Emby, Plex,... so how on earth this should work on MP2... [/QUOTE]
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