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[akira54]

I wondered if it is possible at all to influence the fields that are imported? I would like the "Country" field to be populated with IMDB data automatically but it isn't and putting it all in by hand is arduous. Is there any way of doing this?

[MrC]

I don't believe so.

[akira54]

Isn't it a little odd to support the "Country" field (and several others) and then NOT download the relevant information and leave it to users to enter it themselves?

[MrC]

From your other IMDB-related thread, you've learned that MC uses TMDB, not IMDB.

As far as Odd, I'm sure there's a good reason why Country is not filled in via TMDB, but don't know the reason.

[akira54]

I am not sure but last night I discovered in the Options Advanced a setting that allows one to specify fields for various (imported) media, and "country" as well as many others are listed for video. I haven't tried it yet, hence the vagueness but is sounds promising.

[6233638]

I would love to have Media Center populate the country tags, and an option to disable keywords.

[Hendrik]

I checked TheMovieDB, and they don't appear to have a straight forward "Country" tag. There is "production_countries", which includes the countries the movie was shot in - but of course thats a list, and not a single value, and I'm not sure it matches the semantic of the Country field.

Which info are you guys really looking for in the Country field?

[akira54]

Which info are you guys really looking for in the Country field?

I would like it to reflect the "nationality" of a film. This is, of course, a very tricky thing and trying to come up with criteria has not been easy, but one guideline I use (I do all of it by hand so far) is the nationality of the director. This does not always work though. Lass Halström's films when still made in Sweden are easy, but what when he starts making Hollywood films like "What is eating Gilbert Grape" or "Chocolat"? In such cases I tend to agree with the labels used by the IMDB in their "country" label, although I try to restrict myself to the main country (so many non-Hollywood films are cooperative ventures resulting in a whole string of countries being involved even if the film is essentially Slovenian or Italian, or Iranian).

[fredele]

Well, I've done a scraper add-on for MC a while ago.

It does what you want and much more.
It retrieves info from TVDB, TMDB, all in your native language, downloads subtitles (opensubtitle,subdb), fetches poster from TMDB and Fanart.
It automatically adds some fields in the MC database.
It's more for non-native american users, because the default scrapper doesn' t really work for other languages ...

Take a look at :
https://github.com/fredele/JRScrap/releases/tag/0.6
If you're interested.
Note that's not coming from a professionnal dev., so it's rough but works ...