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Carnac - What does it do?
MrHaugen:
I've been testing the latest build in hopes of seeing some online meta data fetching. At least that I thought Carnac was for. The movies I've tested have the correct movie name as file name, the directory has the "movie name (year)" in it. Still not a single field is updated, besides Media Sub Type.
Am I missing something, or am I just to eager here?
darichman:
I'm really excited about this feature. I suspect it will be tweaked to better accommodate different naming and file structure standards over time.
I've had mixed success so far...
Film
A lot of downloaded backups (torrents etc) have this naming structure:
The.Three.Musketeers.1973.720p.BluRay.X264-7SinS.mkv
My file path is: O:\Sorting\#Film\#Torrentday
All it's pulling is [Media Subtype]=Movie
I think this scheme is common enough for MC to be able to pull
[Name]=The Three Musketeers
[Year]=1973
[Media Subtype]=Movie
I also like to store what the original "media source" was (in this case 'BluRay')
It would be nice if MC could recognise the common ones like DVDRip, BluRay, HDTV, PDTV, VHS, HDDVD etc and store these in a field by default.
Television
A pretty representative filename for an episode:
File Path: O:\Sorting\#Television\#Torrentday\Battlestar.Galactica.S03.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-REPTiLE
Filename: Battlestar.Galactica.S03E01.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-REPTiLE
Again, not much luck:
* [Name]=Bluray.Dts-Reptile
* [Season]=01
* [Episode]=03
* [Series]=Battlestar.Galactica (can we drop the full stop "." ?)
* [Media Subtype]=TV Show
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Once I'm happy with the fields, I rename from properties. My naming scheme goes as follows (I've also showed what MC picks up if I then attempt to run Carnac)
Film
O:\Film\Aladdin (1992)\Aladdin (1992).mkv
Picks up:
* [Name]=Aladdin
* [Year]=1992
* [Media Subtype]=Movie
Awesome :) Television, however doesn't work with my scheme.
Television
O:\Television\Doctor Who (2005)\Season 6\Doctor Who - 6-08. Let's Kill Hitler.mkv
Picks up
* [Series]=Doctor Who (2005) Should really just be 'Doctor Who'
* [Season]=6
* [Media Subtype]=TV Show
* Misses [Episode] (08) and [Name] (Let's Kill Hitler)
MrHaugen:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on October 08, 2011, 09:26:13 pm ---As I understand it, Carnac is just the function of extracting and recording data embedded in the file pathname. While getting external meta data necessarily relies on that process to correctly identify the media, it has it's own configuration requirements and should therefore be (or be thought of as) a separate system. Some media will be fully tagged by the auto-tagging system (e.g., music or image files with existing complete file tags). Other media will only be identified by the auto-tagging system (e.g., movies and episodes) and most of the data will come from a meta data retrieval system.
--- End quote ---
Correct. I think I got some better results now. tested with my TV Shows, and as all of them is tagged with "Name - SXXEXX" it was easy for MC to fill in those 3 fields. I'm a bit disappointed that Movies did not handle better though. I've got Year in () in ALL my folder names, and this should be picked up easily if the system looks for it. Hope this is added too. If so, the system works perfectly on my side :D
I just really hope that this system is not the end of metadata. We really need some automatic external sources for this.
Matt:
darichman, thanks for the detailed examples.
Anyone else that finds files not being handled nicely, posting in a format just like darichman would be helpful.
Thanks.
MrHaugen:
Film
Z:\Movies\District 9 (2009)\District 9.mkv
Picks up:
[Name]=Aladdin
[Media Subtype]=Movie
Missing [Year].
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