Hi, I live in Sweden and the app are in swedish if that make any difference? I’m not getting any metadata on any of my files, some of them has the swedish name and some of them the english name. When i try to refresh metadata I don’t get any suggestions, it’s all blank.
I have the same filenames in XBMC on my ATV2 fetching metadata from TheMovieDB and TheTVDB without any problems.
Here is some of the files that will not get metadata:
A Turtle’s Tale - Sammy’s Adventures (2011).avi
Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn (1986).avi
Bee Movie (2007).avi
Du Är Inte Klok Madicken (1979)-CD1.avi
Du Är Inte Klok Madicken (1979)-CD2.avi
Emil i Lönneberga (1971)-CD1.avi
Emil i Lönneberga (1971)-CD2.avi
Ice Age (2002).avi
Hotel Transylvania (2012)-CD1.avi
Hotel Transylvania (2012)-CD2.avi
Madagascar 3 Europes Most Wanted (2012).avi
Pippi Långstrump På De Sju Haven (1970)-CD1.avi
Pippi Långstrump På De Sju Haven (1970)-CD2.avi
The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001).mp4
This movie gets renamed but no metadata:
Madagascar 3 Europes Most Wanted (2012).avi
New name in InFuse:
Madagascar_3.Title15.DVDRip
TV-Shows is fetching metadata, works like a charm, the covers and text looks very nice:
Game of Thrones S03E01 SWESUB HDTV XviD-SD.avi
Dexter.S07E12.SWESUB.HDTV.XviD-Haggebulle.avi
So it seems like TheTVDB works as it should, but not TheMovieDB.
Sorry for the trouble. This is an issue in the current version of Infuse due to a recent API change at TheMovieDB. In a nutshell, any movies that contain dates in the filenames will not have metadata available.
This is something we’re working hard to fix, and are planning to submit a quick 1.2.4 update to the App Store ASAP.
Ok, I was going nuts since I couldn’t get it to work. Looking forward to the update. InFuse is a really great looking movieplayer, I usually use CineXPlayer, but they have pusched to many functions to it and it’s to many bugs, not so good looking either. InFuse with metadata, airplayer and the possibility to download movies through SMB or AFP is going to be the ultimate player.
If I understand you correctly, this is a problem of Infuse and TheMovieDB.
But I am having the same problem using the media player on my ATV2. I know that “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it” but I thought it might be a good idea to reset all metadatas because I often delete movies once I have seen them. So my intention was to have a clear database. But now most movies don’t have any metadatas at all. It seems like a scene from a movie is shown as a cover and that’s it, no information about actors etc.
The change over at TheMovieDB is affecting quite a few apps, including Infuse, aTV Flash (black), and XBMC. Essentially they started requiring the release year to be sent separately, whereas before the title and year could be sent together in a single query. TheMovieDB guys are great, but unfortunately in this case there wasn’t much of a heads up to let us know things were changing.
Updates for both Infuse and aTV Flash (black) are in the works, and will be available soon.
when do you think will an update be available? I am asking because I find it rather annoying to not have any metadata shown.
So I am thinking of renaming all files which have the year in the filename. But if an update comes out in let’s say one or two weeks I just might want to wait.
We’re in a bit of a tricky spot at the moment, as we’re working to merge Media Player into the Infuse codebase so new features can be easily pushed to both platforms. The downside to this is that it takes a bit of extra time to push fixes on the Apple TV side (at least for now while the merge is in process), but we are planning to have the same fix available on the Apple TV side ASAP.
If you want see coverart in mediaplayer (ATV2), you can copy the coverart in the same folder as the movie. You have to rename the coverart to the name of the movie. Problem solved.
Yes, this solves the problem. But this is an unnecessary step and worked without it before TMDB changed the requirements.
The way I use the mediaplyer is that I have one folder on my NAS. Whenever I copy a movie ( mkv ) to this folder atv recognises it and automatically downloads the relevant metadata.
So I don’t need to download any coverarts nor do I need to have separate folders for each movie.
Would this be the same issue? I have added new movies to my NAS/media server and they are not showing up at all in the media library? I have almost 1000 movies on my server, but noticed that only about half of them show up when I brows through my titles? Why is that?
Do we have any news on when an update for Flash Black will be avaliable to fix this issue?
I like many others have a NAS drive with a single movie folder and all my movies dropped in there. Some of my movie files have a Year on them some don’t. I even added the year to some of them to ensure the correct Metadata was retrieved after a re-install / clearing of the cached data. I was having problems where newer movies wern’t being added so I removed all the cached metadata and re-scanned the whole share. Now its even worse with about 50% of my movies now being in the “Others” section.
I see an update for the Infuse app was out 3 days ago, which is all well and good, but what about your loyal customer base on ATV Flash Black? Is there any update as to when we might see an update to fix this? I really don’t want to have to go rename all my movies, as mentioned some have the year on them intentionally to ensure the correct metadata is retrieved.
