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Cannot get MetaZ to perform TV show searches #257

Closed tonemcd closed 2 years ago

tonemcd commented 2 years ago

Issue

Can't get MetaZ to perform TV show searches.

Any ideas as to what I can try?

Background

I have encoded some TV shows using Handbrake 1.4.1 in .mp4 format. I drag and drop them onto MetaZ (prompt for video type is set) and the name of the file is dropped in the search field. Nothing other than the file name appears in the search results. I can change the content of the search field and still

The drop down search menu has the following settings Title - enabled TV Show - NOT enabled Season - NOT enabled Episode - NOT enabled Chapters - enabled

If I change the type to Movie, then I do get some matches. I dropped the same file into Meta Z twice, once as a TV show and once as a Movie and as a movie, some matches are found, nothing with the TV show.

I looked at the Little Snitch network monitor to see what was going on. A Movie search created some network activity, but "TV Show" didn't. I went through all the 'Video Type' options from Home Movie to iTunes U and the only one that created network activity was Movie.

For completeness, I cloned the repo and built MetaZ from source, built the app and and tried to figure out what was going on. I got the same behaviour. I've written a few small apps in Obj-C for my own benefit and some other Swift iOS apps, again for myself, so I can just about use the debugger and breakpoints, but it was a bit beyond me.

Any pointers would be very welcome.

Settings

Presets - None Enable auto search - set Show ratings from - UK, AU, NZ Update TV App - set Alert Window - set Show MacOS notifications - set The Movie DB - set Atomic Parsley - set Quit MetaZ - NOT set TheTVDB - set The Movie DB Next Gen - set Add to TV app - NOT set TheTVDB 3 - set

Versions used

MetaZ version 1.0.beta-116 downloaded from GitHub releases MetaZ cloned from GitHub and built with Xcode 13.0 Big Sur 11.6 Handbrake 1.4.1 Xcode 13.0 Little Snitch 5.3

griff commented 2 years ago

The problem is most likely the dropdown in the search field. The enabled/disabled status there determines what is used for searching. And for TV search you need at least “TV Show” and “Season” to be enabled. If you can’t enable them by clicking on them it means that you haven’t filled out those fields for the file. So go to the “Video” tab and fill out at least those two fields.

tonemcd commented 2 years ago

Apologies for the late reply, I was away from my machine.

Thanks heaps! I did what you suggested, filling in the "TV Show" and "Season" field in the "Video" tab and both those fields are enabled and the search ran just fine.

Happily closing this issue!