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[Cinelder]

Why are movies the only media subtype categories that appear to work in default lookup with "Get Movie and TV Info" ?   

For any movie with special features, that means I have to do two tag edits - one to change the media subtype to "Movies" so Get Movie and TV Info will try to find and populate the metadata in case the video is in the TMDB or Wikipedia.  Then if lookup is successful, I have to, for example, manually edit the media subtype tag to "Extras" if it's an "Extra.  I understand the second step is necessary, but why the first, - why is not default to try look up the title?

[Hendrik]

Everything but movie or tv show is ambiguous, its an extra for... a movie? A show? Independent?

[Cinelder]

Everything but movie or tv show is ambigious, its an extra for... a movie? A show? Independent?

Sure, but isn't ambiguity relating to "subtype" is cleared up post lookup if it isn't a movie or tv show by editing the media subtype tag to, say "Extra".  I'm maybe a bit dense today, but what am I missing? 

[Hendrik]

Lookups generally don't change media type and subtype, as we never dictate how users organize their media. I, for example, store TV Show extras as TV Show Season 0, not using Extra.

[Cinelder]

Lookups generally don't change media type and subtype, as we never dictate how users organize their media. I, for example, store TV Show extras as TV Show Season 0, not using Extra.

Thanks for your reply and for your patience!  Maybe this will help clarify what I mean.  If pre-lookup I edit the media subtype tag to "Trailer" "Get Movie and TV Info" lookup will work as it does for movies or TV shows.   I don't quite get why I couldn't pre-lookup designate the media subtype as "extras" and then ask MC to do the lookup similarly.  That would save one step of having to manually edit the tag to "movie" for the "Get Movie and TV Info" lookup to work and then have to edit it back to "extras".

[zybex]

You can have Extras for both Movies and TV Shows, but the TMDB API has different endpoints to lookup Movie (search/movie) or TV info (search/tv), and then there are secondary queries needed to get the actual movie or series/episode details, so MC needs to know which API to use. There's also a "search/multi" API that searches a title match on both movies and TV shows (and people), but it can return many fake positives making it unsuitable for bulk lookups. MC could however use it for single-title lookups or when the MediaSubType is not movie/tvshow.

https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/search-multi

[Cinelder]

You can have Extras for both Movies and TV Shows, but the TMDB API has different endpoints to lookup Movie (search/movie) or TV info (search/tv), and then there are secondary queries needed to get the actual movie or series/episode details, so MC needs to know which API to use. There's also a "search/multi" API that searches a title match on both movies and TV shows (and people), but it can return many fake positives making it unsuitable for bulk lookups. MC could however use it for single-title lookups or when the MediaSubType is not movie/tvshow.

https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/search-multi

Thanks, for the reply and explanation, Zybex.   I didn't know how the processes worked under the floorboards.  FWIW, Single title lookup is what I'd like to do for non-movie titles in the TMDB/Wiki databases if it were possible, i.e. same as for individual movie title lookup - highlight the item and "Get Movie and TV Info".