I absolutely agree with you!
I spent Years painstakingly adding Cast&Crew manually to my Movies/Shows with XML/NFO files and now all the work was for nothing!
And I use a lot of old (retro) German TV-Shows and Movies, which have no or false entries on TMDB…
It is really an uphill Battle!
Infuse is always adding new (sometimes unnecessary) Features instead of finally fixing the Basic Things!
I even know several People who got tired of it and switched to another Software…
I for myself have always remained loyal to Infuse and have fought to push Basic Things forward, but slowly I am getting tired as well…
Wait; what just happened? What feature was downgraded? Do you mean “now” as in last year, when Infuse had to switch to TMDB and you lost what you’d entered into TVDB? When did Infuse last / ever support custom .nfo for television series? Because that was something I had to come to terms with when choosing to use this software … and yeah, it sucks … but I don’t feel like they took something away since breaking up with TVDB?
Would very much like greater support for custom (local) .nfo to be added, though, definitely.
For whatever reason, Infuse seems to allow local .nfo for movies to override more tags than it does for tv. Wish they’d publish a full list of exactly which ones. And added support for respecting local < sorttitle > tags.
As for work down the drain … looks like 7.4 getting rid of the TV season select page is going to negate all the hours and hours of work I’ve done collecting and creating custom season poster artwork (and uploading much of the same to TMDB when needed). However, I’ll take the loss in exchange for a much more useful UI.
I’m glad I never went up to a 7.x version. And I’m missing nothing except those features we are waiting since years. If your ATV is jailbroken then you can easily downgrade to an earlier version direct inside the AppStore. The checkra1n jailbreak is very easy to implement.
It’s very disappointing, that they have no ears to their users and instead of improve features like the NFO/XML edit, they are killing it.
PS: Just for the record, I’m still missing the Aspect Ratio tag!
The fact that Infuse doesn’t recognize XML files for TV shows is ridiculous. Seems like you’d want your software to be able to support some sort of local metadata just in case TMDb (or whatever future source it might use) goes offline. At least then people could have the local data. (Perhaps even a way to download the metadata and store it locally as XML would future-proof things, but that’s too much to ask when we can’t even get it to read the XML in the first place!)
I had some shows entered on TMDb, but they went and mass-deleted them all because they aired on the Internet (on TWiT.tv) instead of a regular broadcast channel…but apparently streaming shows from Netflix, Disney+, or Twitch (in the case of Critical Role) are just fine. (These TWiT.tv shows are listed on IMDb and TVdb. It’s just TMDb that seems to have a stick up their butt about it.) I REALLY hate the double-standard TMDb has going…but those megalomaniacs can’t be reasoned with.
If I could generate my own XML by hand, this would all be so much easier…
I know I’ve successfully overridden TV episode titles with local .nfo files; so TV series XML isn’t completely ignored … just very much handicapped compared to what is possible with movies.
The complete list of supported tags (for each category), however, is nowhere to be found.
I’m really hoping the <sorttitle> tags will someday finally be respected.
Here’s overridden TV episode titles for “Firefly” (that I did because alternate episode order similarly isn’t yet supported):
I’ll go straight to the point, sorry if it sounds rude. I can’t believe how you just don’t care about your customers feedback. New version is out and this feature is not resolved? Are we just a joke to you? I’m sorry but this is too much. Fix that once and for all.
When is metadata XML or any other means to regulate the library yourself (!!) being made available. Since the embrace of TMDB half of my library had become crap because of them and their antics.
I want to be able to control my entire library, without being subjected to the wings of external parties.
The whole library, Trakt, TMDB thing is making Infuse less and less usable!
Says the guy who’s been here for six years … so, what he might maybe mean is … “not far off” (as in compared to how long folks have already been waiting ).
In geological time, it’s right around the corner!
I was also looking for different solutions to this problem. I also have several rather unknown tv shows or home made videos like birthdays.
I never was able to organize those via Infuse adequately.
Now this issue has the tag “planned”, which is great, but I don’t have clue what that means for the release cycle.
I really was about to analyse the data traffic between Infuse and TMDB and see if I can get some info how it works.Together the with API documentation of TMDB, I might get a middleware working which intercepts the API calls to TMBD. It would then check if the API call is for a custom tv series and if so, delivers custom configured meta data to Infuse. All other API calls go to the TMDB. Like a small custom self-configured TMDB server software which we can control easily.
Since I don’t have much time at the moment, I did not start this small project. And now this issue is “planned”, so it might not be necessary anymore.
The only way I can see to create your own files is find a series on TMDB that has enough seasons and enough episodes per season that it would suit your purposes, and then name your video files such that they will scrape as episodes of that season:
and change the <title>, <showtitle>, and <plot> tags so Infuse displays your desired title of your home movie “series” and “episodes” instead of “Survivor” and details about the episodes of that show.
Tedious, to be sure.
Or, you can just browse your home videos via the file browser and uncheck the favorite where they reside in Settings/Library so Infuse doesn’t try to index them.
Don’t try creating a new series at TMDB. They’ll axe it for sure as soon as they see it.
I’ve been able to create an .NFO file for my movies that work just perfectly. Everything is showing: Plot, actors, directors, writers, everything.
I’m not home, but when I’ll be back, I will upload it for you guys.
Something really important here is to NOT MOVE any tags. I’ve made some changes to the tags position in the .NFO file and nothing is showing in Infuse. So just change the information and save.
I use the same .NFO file for my Tv Shows, but no success. Does someone have a working .NFO file for their Tv Shows that he can share with me ? That would be very nice.
And thank you to all of you for sharing your test and result, we gonna make it work
).
