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[CountryBumkin]

I would like to add TV Show's "First Aired" date to my Theater View display, if Developers can find a way to import it.
I see the date info is available at TVDB (at least from a single Users view).




This is my current view. Note that the Date field is showing "Jan 11" (which is the imported date) - this is where "First Aired" date should go.
BTW - I don't know why it shows Jan 11 in one place and "2007" in another place, when they are the same field (as far as I can tell both locations use field "Date").

[CountryBumkin]

PS.
it looks like the "AirDate" is available, it's just not making its way into my/the MC database.


From TVDB http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php?title=API:GetEpisodeByAirDate

<airdate>

This is the date the episode aired on you are trying to lookup. This can be supplied in any valid date type. Examples:
2008-01-01
2008-1-1
January 1, 2008
1/1/2008
etc

[Hendrik]

It puts that date into the "Date" field for me? Is that not working for you?
I just checked on a new series I ripped just a few days ago, and its in there just fine. Didn't even run manual lookup, just put them into an auto-import folder and MC did its thing.

Note that the automated metadata lookup does not overwrite values, so if it got a year info from the files metadata or the filename, it may require a manual lookup.
Maybe it should overwrite the date value?

[CountryBumkin]

I'm mostly only getting the "Year" not the complete "AirDate". Even if I clear all the data in the Date fields and do a new manual lookup, only the Year data imports (the month and day are not importing).




I don't know why some episodes have complete date information (like the TV series "Black Sheep Squadron). All of the TV Shows are recoded OTA. I don't know if the full "first air" date comes through with the OTA data and some stations include a full date (mm/dd/yyyy) and some just include the year. But I am not able to get the full date by manually going to "Get Movie & TV Info" (which should be the fix for incomplete OTA metadata).

If I go to TVDB I can see that the full date (AirDate) is available, but it does not seem to download (and the "Get Movie & TV info" only shows the Year in the episode data - is it looking at/importing the "AirDate" or just the "Year" aired?)

[Hendrik]

Not sure what to tell you...



Wonder if its maybe related to the locale somehow screwing over date parsing? It works just fine using german date settings here!
The XML we retrieve contains "<FirstAired>2007-10-08</FirstAired>", which should be internationally parseable I imagine...

Which date locale is your OS set to?

[CountryBumkin]

My computer is setup as "(UTC -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"

[Yaobing]

I get what CountryBumkin got.

[Hendrik]

I volunteer Yaobing to look at the date parser then! This particular case is in the TheTVDB parsing, where its gathering the FirstAired info.
I switched mine to US date formatting and still working...

[Yaobing]

I will.

[Yaobing]

When I ran it in debugger, the date is parsed correctly.  I did get the correct year, month and date.

Maybe someone already fixed this?

EDIT:  I tried again re-installing build 64.  It did not get full date, only year.  Then I built JRTools.dll using the latest code.  I now get full date.  So it must have been fixed with the latest code.

[Hendrik]

Sounds to me like it was broken on .64 only. I didn't update to that on my actual systems in use because Matt broke things.

[Matt]

because Matt broke things.

That's what I'm here for.

[CountryBumkin]

Sounds to me like it was broken on .64 only. I didn't update to that on my actual systems in use because Matt broke things.

I don't think it broke in .64, because I had this date import issue before 64. If you look at the  file import dates (in the screen shot a few posts above) you can see that I have been getting the "incomplete" dates for a while - at least back to early December.  EDIT - I was just thinking that maybe the problem is just with .64 and I made my situation worse by doing a "large group TV info lookup/update" while 64 was running. Maybe it that action removed some good dates and replaced with only "year" date.

Regardless, I be glad when the issue is fixed.

Will I see a fix in .65? Or do I need to have the JRTools.dll "rebuild" Yaobing mentioned?

[Hendrik]

All I know is that I was running .63 when I tested, and it parsed the date just fine and showed it in the dialog in question, so try again with .65

[CountryBumkin]

.65 fixed the problem. Thanks!