Managing Meta Data

Suggestions
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A few things to suggest about meta data after getting started with Infuse:

  1. Need to be able to clear meta data or force a hard refresh at a specific movie, tv series, tv season, and/or tv show level.

I added some custom meta data to an episode (picture and XML file), then made changes. Infuse wouldn’t pick up the changes. I had to clear the entire cache. That’s a heavy hammer to swing.

  1. You guys need an example TV show episode XML on the meta data. There’s only one for movies.

This page: Metadata and Cover Art – Firecore

  1. I find it odd that you can’t put the year in the name of the show and have it work. It wasn’t parsing my “The Walking Dead (2010)” folder until I renamed it to “The Walking Dead”. What happens if a show with the same name has existed twice in different runs in different years?

  2. The system overall does not seem robust to TV show XML files. I did get it to parse one, but it’s not immediate nor reliable like images are.

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As Infuse currently uses thetvdb.com for the tv show Metadata you should name it as on that site; so if the show there includes the year in the name then include the year, if it does not then you should not. In general the first show with a given name does not include the year and subsequent show with the same name includes the year in the name.