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ZRatings v3.2 released
marko:
I need a little help with my OCD here. Apologies in advance if this has already been covered...
Under "Misc" options, I want to include the actors roles in each movie. It's a great option that allows us to see who played who from Theater View.
However, under "Poster" options, I only have "Actor/Crew" thumbs enabled, all being saved to the "Actors" folder in my MC "Coverart" folder. Here's the thing though... with that "Roles" option ticked, that actors folder contains, for example, 18 Liam Neeson images, 16 Will Smith images, 16 Leornardo di Caprio images, and so on, with, atm, over 15,000 images in that actors folder.
At the moment, I am not actually doing anything with these images.
When I eventually get around to it, will I really need all those duplicate images caused by the various roles an individual actor may have played?
Is it possible to keep the "roles" information, but only store one image file per actor?
-marko
zybex:
Hi Marko,
The filename is tied to the contents of the [Actors] field. If you enable the option "Add role to actor names" (eg, "Keanu Reeves [Neo]") then the filename for the thumbnail will also have that same name, so that you can use [Actors] directly in an expression to fetch the correct image. This is meant to be used with the Postprocessing option to have the Actor and Role name stamped on the respective image.
If you disable that option, the filename will be only "Keanu Reeves.png", shared by all movies as long as the output folder is not depending on the movie title. For instance, if you set it up to save to "c:\Media\Actors" then there will be only one image per actor; but if you save to "c:\media\actors\$imdb", then each movie will have its own folder, so actors will be duplicated in different folders.
Perhaps I should add support for an extra [Actor Roles] field to allow having less images but still keep the Role info.
Br,
Pedro
Outlaw Audio:
Hi Zybex,
Ive dabbled with MCRatings and now ZRatings for its scraping of the RottomTomatoes, Metacritic and Tagline tags. Everything else is well handled by MCUtils. However, I have two questions
Does ZRatings handle TV Shows? If not, any plans to add this?
Does ZRatings have the ability to store Actors in unique folders attached to the directory the movie is stored in and not in a common folder?
For example, the movie is "1917" The movie is stored in \\NAS\Movies\1917
As subdirectors within that main folder are:
\.Actors
\.Crew
\.Posters
I want to store the actor images in \\NAS\Movies\1917\.Actors
arcspin:
--- Quote from: zybex on July 11, 2021, 06:22:28 am ---Perhaps I should add support for an extra [Actor Roles] field to allow having less images but still keep the Role info.
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That would be awesome.
The name and the role info is crucial to have beneath the actors picture but if there would be some way of decreasing the number of jpg and at the same time not lose information or the ability to set colors to each name/role, that would be great. I for one have the name in white and the role in yellow beneath each jpg.
I just did a count of how many pictures i have and I ended up having 37 925 images sorted in alphabetical folders.
(Just thought of the time it would take me to do an entire rescanning and importing a new system of pictures)
Yikes, that could take some time!
zybex:
--- Quote from: Outlaw Audio on July 11, 2021, 12:36:40 pm ---Does ZRatings handle TV Shows? If not, any plans to add this?
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Just movies, no TVShows for now. Not sure when I'll have the time to add that... I want to completely rework the UI to make it more flexible and add TVShow support, and possibly even interfacing with MCUtils, but that will take time that I don't have right now.
--- Quote ---Does ZRatings have the ability to store Actors in unique folders attached to the directory the movie is stored in and not in a common folder?
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Yes, but I just released a new version with a bug fix that was preventing this to work :)
Please get the latest 3.2.3, and set the Poster folder to "$moviedir\.Posters", and the Actors dir to "$moviedir\.$type". This $type variable is actually CREW or CAST, so not exactly what you want but close.
You can also use the Postprocessing script to have it copy the downloaded images to wherever you like!
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