.my files?

[davidk21770]

I have had to rebuild my wiz.bin lately (grew astronomically) and am having a lot of difficulty with getting my corrected metadata back.

How do I get BMT (or sage) to update / create ALL .my files? Or a group of them? I can do this with BMT's web interface for .properties, but as far as I can figure, sage ignores .property files??? <sigh>.

Can I get sage to update the metadata that is stored in the movie files themselves? As a batch! I have 8k+ movies -- individual .my through the sage metadata interface is way too time consuming here.

I can script from the commandline if there's an interface that I could use -- can this be done with sagex?

Thanks :-)

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by davidk21770

I have had to rebuild my wiz.bin lately (grew astronomically) and am having a lot of difficulty with getting my corrected metadata back.

How do I get BMT (or sage) to update / create ALL .my files? Or a group of them? I can do this with BMT's web interface for .properties, but as far as I can figure, sage ignores .property files??? <sigh>.

Can I get sage to update the metadata that is stored in the movie files themselves? As a batch! I have 8k+ movies -- individual .my through the sage metadata interface is way too time consuming here.

I can script from the commandline if there's an interface that I could use -- can this be done with sagex?

Thanks :-)

For the .properties files I believe you need to set this property in sage...



I have not changed this in years but sage should load the .properties files. You may need to do a TOUCH on the .properties files as they need to be newer to tell sage they have newer data.

K

[wayner]

If you have .properties files then will Sage always read this in to create metadata?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by davidk21770

I have had to rebuild my wiz.bin lately (grew astronomically) and am having a lot of difficulty with getting my corrected metadata back.

How do I get BMT (or sage) to update / create ALL .my files? Or a group of them? I can do this with BMT's web interface for .properties, but as far as I can figure, sage ignores .property files??? <sigh>.

Can I get sage to update the metadata that is stored in the movie files themselves? As a batch! I have 8k+ movies -- individual .my through the sage metadata interface is way too time consuming here.

I can script from the commandline if there's an interface that I could use -- can this be done with sagex?

Thanks :-)

Sage does not ignore property files as a matter of fact the properties files take president over any other type of metadata.

[davidk21770]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Sage does not ignore property files as a matter of fact the properties files take president over any other type of metadata.

That is probably my problem. I've read that sage doesn't use .properties files so I've treated them as 2nd class citizens over the years and focused on .my files.

SO... if I delete all my .my files and tell BMT to create a complete new set of .properties files from the web interface -- should I have a much easier time when I move files around?

Edit: (I just told sage to stop making .my files and left it making .properties files).

Thank you!
David

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by davidk21770

That is probably my problem. I've read that sage doesn't use .properties files so I've treated them as 2nd class citizens over the years and focused on .my files.

SO... if I delete all my .my files and tell BMT to create a complete new set of .properties files from the web interface -- should I have a much easier time when I move files around?

Edit: (I just told sage to stop making .my files and left it making .properties files).

Thank you!
David

Yep Exactly what I do is tell CMT to make property files for all recordings. I always move the properties and TV files together. CMT makes property files for all recordings with all the data.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Yep Exactly what I do is tell CMT to make property files for all recordings. I always move the properties and TV files together. CMT makes property files for all recordings with all the data.

CMT can also create .my files, but they don't provide any function within SageTV.

.my files are an old text format file from the old MYHTPC (precursor to Meedio) days. They are basically a tagged format file which a variety of applications can read.

John

[davidk21770]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Yep Exactly what I do is tell CMT to make property files for all recordings. I always move the properties and TV files together. CMT makes property files for all recordings with all the data.

Thanks! I will delete 'em all.

They can cause confusion. I had sage set to automatically read the .my and update the db and every time that I edited the metadata (I was assuming that it updated the .my's) -- but when it did reread the .my it changed the metadata back! Had me scratching my head until I remembered that I had changed that.