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Ability to turn metadata on/off by folder

PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:33 am
by Terminus
Love the metadata its great, best thing about Serviio. But the problem is if I have not renamed a movie or series yet, or I want my personal videos to be in the library too, or I record TV with a tuner card and want to watch it through Serviio, it tries to find the closest matching title from the online databases and often gets it hilariously or annoyingly wrong and clutters up the library.
Can we have an option in the shared folders dialog to turn off searching for metadata in certain folders so we can still play the videos in them via folder view, without them messing up the rest of our carefully tended library?

Re: Ability to turn metadata on/off by folder

PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 9:58 am
by zip
I want todo something about it. Would a checkbox somewhere be better or would you prefer some naming convention, e.g. everything in a folder called "private" to be skipped when searching for the metadata?

Re: Ability to turn metadata on/off by folder

PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:07 pm
by Britinva
zip wrote:I want todo something about it. Would a checkbox somewhere be better or would you prefer some naming convention, e.g. everything in a folder called "private" to be skipped when searching for the metadata?


What about logic:
- Is there a local metadata file (if yes use first)
- Is there full match on a online metadata (if yes use)
- if neither use filename

If Serviio sees that user is using metadata (local or online) use the structured folders like you do now. If metadata not being used then just use folder structure on the PC.

Re: Ability to turn metadata on/off by folder

PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:18 pm
by ken
This would be a very nice feature to have, I like the idea with a checkbox next to the shared folders.

Re: Ability to turn metadata on/off by folder

PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2010 8:26 pm
by zip