Ability to custom change metadata

Hi,

I am using Serviio Pro for several months and everything works flawlessly.

But I have to use the folder view because many of my files are not correctly read because the filenames are not up to "specification". I know in the FAQ is the database you use and I could edit it, but I would rather stick to my own folder and movie names.

Now I tried out PLEX and the DNLA-Server does not work very well with my BR-Player .... so much for that (Also I am missing manual transcoding customization)

But it has an extremely useful feature, that you can edit which meta information it uses for a TV-Series, Movie ....

So basically if a file is not recognized I can edit die file in die Browser and chose the right Metadata out from a list.

Could you add that in a future version ?

[atc98092]

It has been discussed before, but I have no idea where Zip might have it queued for a future version. Because of the connection method Serviio uses to connect to the database, a 3rd party tool cannot be used to access the metadata. As long as the Serviio service is running on the computer, nothing else can connect to the database. I suppose someone could right something that will stop the service, connect to the DB, allow editing, then restart the service when exiting.

I have looked at the DB using Squirrel SQL, and it's all there to see, but Squirrel isn't real user friendly for digging into a DB, and one mistake could corrupt the whole magilla.

The only way to do this is not using an embedded version of derby, stopping serviio may cause problems (if he's serving some media content).

If Zip can integrate sqlite driver driver into serviio i think we can have this feature, cause sqlite can handle multiple connections (and it's a file db like derby, no need of a server); or just someone else can write a gui to edit metadata. I don't know if sqlite is better than derby, but i think it's possible.