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  <body><div>On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 15:41 -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>This information is in the MythTV wiki at  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxFjs0KgzAQhJ9Gb5V1TbQ55FAKPdVnCBuzGvGXGCt9-1p6KAwMfDAf43TTkpMi7XVbiVIJYISCZG4Vc14KkoSgrFOOUQA6xZg1NPGYCOhGnm02c0y9hqssgZ2yVa5AMEhmi9AUKCogWbl01D7GdUuKW4KPM8dxZNM7-vjKltB9QT_0Z9UcyVEk81yWYV_N3dPc8WZqCo03CJinQf-Gl33jsJ1H_p4PKZNB_A">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Metadata_Lookup_Changes_March_2021</a><br></p><div> </div><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="color: black;
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          black; padding: 5px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxFjcsKwyAURL8m7io-k7pw0U2gn3Gj10RqTDC2oX9fSxeFgYHDGcZbF8BrRaINg-qNYiiYBM0ng8h7BRoEM5M3HoViwhsU1MGKqVNsTpgnmrGSxYLijnFgoK4QpPFGg5ZX6QIfGmI9SXapdT86eevE2HKeJ13fdakvupX5C-Ijthpjwibd130rFXKle55JsT_18jywHO36v_wAuKM88w" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6,
              69, 173); background: none;"><img alt="Important.png" src="https://www.mythtv.org/w/images/thumb/f/ff/Important.png/25px-Important.png" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; margin:
                0px;" width="25" height="25"></a><span> </span><b>Note:</b><span> </span>For TV series metadata lookup to continue working, you must update as described here.</p></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">MythTV metadata lookup uses thetvdb.com as source for TV show information and artwork. TheTVDB is changing their business model to require a subscription payment to use the API. The existing API will be shut down around March 2021.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">MythTV fixes/31 and master (v32-Pre) have been updated to support two new sources. For metadata lookups on TV shows to continue working, you need to upgrade your system. To be able to make the new selection, both backend and frontend must be upgraded (if you use separate machines for backend and frontend).</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">You can select one of these options in mythfrontend -> setup -> Artwork and Data Sources -> Television Metadata Source. You need to change this for metadata lookup to continue working. Select one of the following two options.</p> <ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;
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url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A");"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>TheMovieDB.org V3 television</b>. TheMovieDB is used for Movie lookups. It can now be used for TV series lookups as well.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>TVmaze.com</b>.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">If you have recording rules that have inetref specified as ttvdb.py_nnnnn these must be changed or metadata lookups for future recordings will fail. Appropriate values are as follows:</p> <ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;
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url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A");"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">tmdb3tv.py_nnnnn for lookup of TV series using themoviedb.org.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">tvmaze.py_nnnnn for lookup of TV series using tvmaze.com.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">tmdb3.py_nnnnn for lookup of movies using themoviedb.org.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">In each case, nnnnn is the inetref for the series or movie at the appropriate site. These numbers are different for each site, so you cannot just change the prefix.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">You can update recording rules from mythfrontend by clearing out the inetref field and clicking the search button to search using the source that you selected in frontend setup. This does not work with mythfrontend on Android.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Note that it is perfectly acceptable to have some rules using tmdb3tv.py_nnnnn and some using tvmaze.py_nnnnn at the same time. They will be looked up using the appropriate service. If you have some that are still using ttvdb, they will continue to work until the old ttvdb service is shut down.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">If you have<span> </span><a href="http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxFjcsOwiAURL-m7CT08ioLFm5c-ROUe2kbKzUUbfx7MS5MJpnknEkGfUwBtWKLT1YZpwSBkEH3oyPqjQo6gHAjOiRQAtAR8BjutHZKTCvlkWeqbPaYIEYb0KVkcRiStAqkNsI609uG2OrnWh97J88dXFqO4-D3d53ri29l-oLltrS6UsipbLmy4n_-9Nyp7O3vP_8Aapc5rg" title="Leanfront" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);
            background: none;">Leanfront</a><span> </span>on Android or on an emulator on a PC, you can search both tvmaze and themoviedb without changing the frontend setup. That way you can check for each show which service will support it and set up accordingly.</p> <h3 style="color: black; background: none; font-weight: bold;
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          line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ubuntu_and_Xubuntu_Focal_.2820.04.29">Ubuntu and Xubuntu Focal (20.04)</span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">If you installed using Ubuntu packages, you can add the ppa and perform an upgrade to get the latest version.</p> <h3 style="color: black; background: none; font-weight: bold;
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