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Carnac - What does it do?
Matt:
--- Quote from: Crescent on October 22, 2011, 10:42:37 am ---Is Carnac meant for music too? Or just video?
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It's used for all media types, although it's most useful for video. Music normally has tags.
--- Quote ---What happens if there's no Internet connection? Or outbound connections are blocked by a firewall?
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It's not an online system. It's a system that takes what we know about a file (filename, codec, etc.) and tries to fill in other information.
Automatic online lookup of other metadata would be a different (but possible future) feature.
Matt:
--- Quote from: nevcairiel on October 22, 2011, 06:39:57 pm ---I finally got around to letting Carnac run wild on my library, here some cases that failed:
Z:\Series\Pinky and the Brain\1\1e01-Das Mouse.mkv - shows up as Unassigned
... and all files in that series. I assume because there is no series name in the file name, only season and ep title?
Z:\Series\Doctor Who (2005)\Season 1\Doctor.Who.S01E010.The.Doctor.Dances.mkv
.. identified with episode tag 1, i assume because of the three digit ep number. How did i manage to name them like that, i wonder.
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Thanks for the details.
That year one is a little tricky, because often folders that end with a year is because that's the date the show aired. So it's going to be hard to know if the year is part of the series or should be split to the date field.
--- Quote ---Anyway, overall its working really great. Now i just have to figure out how to fix the theater view to show the episode number for a name, instead of the name which most of the time contains nothing useful.
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That's good to hear. We need TheTVDB lookup of additional information based on the series, season, and episode. This is on our list.
rjm:
I just updated library from tags for 20,000 videos because I wanted the bitrate, dimensions, and compression fields updated by RO.
All other tags for these videos were perfect and I did not want anything changed.
An unfortunate side effect of Carnac was that many other tags were changed. I spent many hours editing the tags to put them back the way they were before I started.
A new option that simply updates bitrate, dimensions, compression, and the thumbnail would be very much appreciated.
fitbrit:
So I need some advice. I've been using MC for close to 4 years now, and in the absence of something like Carnac, the majority of my video files are tagged a certain way. Now Carnac comes along and does things a little differently.
For a start, under Season and Episode, I use the format: Sxx and Exx respectively, including the letters 'S' and 'E' and padding the numbers to two digits. Questions:
1) I'm now unsure whether I should remove the letters from all my existing tags or to add them to the Carnac ones.
2) I would really like the number padding to be in effect, because it's kind of the convention everywhere on the net, and it does make a difference in sorting if the fields are used as part of a filename or other field name for example. SP, although I know MC doesn't require the padding internally, it would be nice to have the option. I'm clueless about this, but I imagine it should be possible to make a custom field, based on an expression, that will automatically take Carnac's Season and Episode format and put it in the format I want, including the letters etc.
*sigh* If only I were new to MC16/17! :)
Matt:
--- Quote from: fitbrit on October 25, 2011, 01:03:50 pm ---So I need some advice. I've been using MC for close to 4 years now, and in the absence of something like Carnac, the majority of my video files are tagged a certain way. Now Carnac comes along and does things a little differently.
For a start, under Season and Episode, I use the format: Sxx and Exx respectively, including the letters 'S' and 'E' and padding the numbers to two digits. Questions:
1) I'm now unsure whether I should remove the letters from all my existing tags or to add them to the Carnac ones.
2) I would really like the number padding to be in effect, because it's kind of the convention everywhere on the net, and it does make a difference in sorting if the fields are used as part of a filename or other field name for example. SP, although I know MC doesn't require the padding internally, it would be nice to have the option. I'm clueless about this, but I imagine it should be possible to make a custom field, based on an expression, that will automatically take Carnac's Season and Episode format and put it in the format I want, including the letters etc.
*sigh* If only I were new to MC16/17! :)
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First, you can change #1 to either format with just a few keystrokes using an expression. For example, pick all videos and type this for the series to switch S02 to 2:
=FormatNumber(RemoveLeft([Series], 1))
I don't see any reason for Media Center to use leading zeroes when displaying seasons and episodes. Our sorting doesn't need it. Using leading zeroes when building filenames (like we do for Track # for music) is a good idea.
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