My Anime 2 (2 Viewers)

[asmoranomar]

Was able to finally do a test while I was unbanned - so here are the results.

Interesting note on this:
- I was unbanned. Tested this by going into config and successfully downloading episode information for a group I already knew about. Was also able to test this by doing a manual HTTP lookup.
- Upon opening MyAnime2 and running an import, I was banned within seconds. (happened around the moment I got the web exception error in the logs)
- In this case, the ban was so quick I was unable to associate any episodes.

 

[lwerndly]

Is that the full log? I don't see any record of you being banned.

 

[asmoranomar]

Yes, that is the complete log. The logs have always been cryptic. The Web Exception error and/or the endless SKIPPING messages have been the only indication that anything is wrong. I can check my banned status easily by trying to manually use the AniDB API (UDP ignores client, HTTP gives "<error>banned</error>"). MyAnime2 has never given any banned error message in the log.

 

[asmoranomar]

I'm still in the process of importing files slowly - but something else I've discovered:

MyAnime2 is not checking the 'watched' flag and is not setting the location ('on HDD', etc) on import.

Is there a way to 'force' MyAnime2 to synchronize the MyList data from AniDB?

 

[tgxiii]

I would say it is a working title, Craig might disagree

Not so much functional scope yet, more like some very high level goals.
The main one being to separate the back end functionality from the user interface
Back End = File hashing, downloading info from AniDB/TvDB, Database functionality, etc.

The main reasons for this separation?
- Allow the database to be shared between multiple clients e.g. you can use the client plugin on different machines and both machines will know which episodes have been watched etc, hashing of files is only done on one machine
- Allows creation of different types of clients without needing to re-do all the back-end functionality
- Definite Clients: Media Portal 2 Plugin, Windows Client
- Probable: Windows Media Centre
- Possible: Web Server/Browser Based, Android etc

For most users of MyAnime in MP, they probably don't care about this stuff, but it is important to some of us

Other non-related goals (mine, other devs will have their own)
- Full support for localisation (other langauges)
- Support for SQL Server, SQLite
- Persisting of commands to database, so you can resume from where you left off for an import
- Simplified processing of files and commands (slower but more reliable)
- Searching on anime titles across languages, synonyms etc
- More powerful filtering and user defined views
- Name pattern matching like TV Series

This is some pretty exciting stuff. I can't wait to see it finally come to fruition.

P.S. If there's any way I can turn the Windows Media Center front-end from a "probable" to a "definite", do let me know.

 

[lwerndly]

2. I'm having trouble with One Piece again. This time, it looks like the database is somehow just losing new files (and some old ones) even though I see them being hashed in the import screen. To illustrate this, I deleted the One Piece series and group so that all of the files would show up in the Unrecognized Files tab under the File Manager:
Notice that episode 14 is missing.

Is it possible to get a copy of your database?. Not really much to see in the log files.

I'm still in the process of importing files slowly - but something else I've discovered:

MyAnime2 is not checking the 'watched' flag and is not setting the location ('on HDD', etc) on import.

Is there a way to 'force' MyAnime2 to synchronize the MyList data from AniDB?

I haven't been able to reproduce the banned issue. I have tried a few large imports over the last few days and no issues.
I have noticed that it sends duplicate commands in some cases, which could cause a ban (but not for me so far)

Yes I noticed the watched problem as well. It is do with using the web cache. Turning this off should fix it for any further files you import.
There is no way to sync the status at the moment, as it would need to send a UDP command for every file in your list.
While it's possible to do this I'm not sure of the banning implications. I might ask the AniDB developers about this.

This is some pretty exciting stuff. I can't wait to see it finally come to fruition.

P.S. If there's any way I can turn the Windows Media Center front-end from a "probable" to a "definite", do let me know

The only way to guarantee it is to write it yourself
I haven't spoken to any of the other dev's for a while, so not sure if any of them have an interest in it.

 

[Cinnabuns]

Is it possible to get a copy of your database?. Not really much to see in the log files.

You can find a copy of the database here (too big to attach even when zipped):
http://trebuh.com/download/AnimeDatabaseV20.zip

Also, as I expected, I downloaded ep 286, did an import, and it fails to get associated and does not show up in the unrecognized files list either even though it got hashed and the queue said that it was being added.

Thanks for looking into it!

 

[lwerndly]

Is it possible to get a copy of your database?. Not really much to see in the log files.

You can find a copy of the database here (too big to attach even when zipped):
http://trebuh.com/download/AnimeDatabaseV20.zip

Also, as I expected, I downloaded ep 286, did an import, and it fails to get associated and does not show up in the unrecognized files list either even though it got hashed and the queue said that it was being added.

Thanks for looking into it!

Hmm for some reason you had 43 corrupted Hash records.
I have attached a database with those records removed.
Try using this and then running the import again (back up your database first)

Fixed Database

 

[Cinnabuns]

Hmm for some reason you had 43 corrupted Hash records.
I have attached a database with those records removed.
Try using this and then running the import again (back up your database first)

Fixed Database

I re-ran the import, but no new files got re-hashed. Basically, nothing seemed to happen. Here's the log for that:
View attachment 74860

Then, I restarted MP and tried the "Refresh Local File Information" option. That took a while with 6000+ files. That didn't seem to do anything either. So I followed that up with a "Cleanup Database", and another Import, and finally "Re-hash unrecognized files". None of that seemed to have much effect either. Here's the log for this 2nd round of attempts:
View attachment 74861

In case it matters, here's the database after I did all of these things:
http://trebuh.com/download/AnimeDatabaseV20_2.zip

 

[lwerndly]

In case it matters, here's the database after I did all of these things:
http://trebuh.com/download/AnimeDatabaseV20_2.zip

Ok I finally figured out the problem.
It looks like you have a duplicate hidden set of of episode records for One Piece.
This probably occurred some time in the past when you used the config to import episodes.
(You had two different groups which both used the same AniDB of 69)

I'm trying to figure out how I can fix the data, but don't see an easy solution.

For now I would advise against importing episodes from the config screen.