[mythtv-users] Metadata still

[James Linder]

> On 5 Nov 2020, at 10:01 pm, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I know metadata is broken. Over the years I've had endless heartache so what I'm asking is if anybody knows of a workaround:
> 
> I'm saving some of the Doc Martin episodes.
> 
> I saved 'Doc Martin 9x04.avi' as 'Doc Martin 9x05.avi' by accident.
> Of course the meta data retrieved was for 9x05 not 9x04.
> I renamed 9x05 as 9x04 populated with 9x03, correct 9x05, 9x06 and 9x07.
> 
> [sandypit] /home/jam [1003]% md5sum /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc\ Martin\ 9*avi
> 0ca1346e72f3fa0b71e101174f6ef053  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x03.avi
> 3ffd0aa41fbfe8915d369b35edb5b8e7  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x04.avi
> 3ad670f9aab5bed662aa034b34804246  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x05.avi
> bcdff50b663e9819394470dae4b12a44  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x06.avi
> 9751bfa47e643445022d9f988dca75d6  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x07.avi 
> 
> After much fussing around, restoring this AM backup, scanning on another machine I eventually got 5 episodes with correct meta data, watchable too.
> 
> I did a scan with a comletely new movie and
> 9x05 and 9x06 no longer appear in the listings !!!!!!! (but ofcourse are still present)
> 
> It has bitten me so many times I wrote a hashDups:
> 
> [sandypit] /store/Movies/Myth-D [1007]% ~/bin/hashDups
> ----------------------
> now doing names
> ----------------------
> [number of files] 77
> --------------------------------
> now doing hash on files
> --------------------------------
> now doing hash check
> --------------------------------
> 
> Checking the entire Movies archive:
> [sandypit] /store/Movies [1009]% ~/bin/hashDups
> ----------------------
> now doing names
> ----------------------
> [number of files] 1333
> --------------------------------
> now doing hash on files
> --------------------------------
> now doing hash check
> --------------------------------
> [targ] ./Myth-R/Red Dog.avi                     410b4e48418d3fa6
> [dup] ./Myth-R/red.avi
> 
> Any suggestions .. please
> James

I just fixed the above dup, and scan and all metadata is correct (9x03 .. 9x07)
So problem is solved.
my HashDups is a Qt console app, if anybody wants it just ask. It is not packaged, you'll need to compile it
James