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Problem with 1 set - lesrhorer - 2023-09-21

I am having a little trouble with my sets, and KODI seems to be a bit stubborn about them.  KODI is rather good at picking up new videos - or at least what it thinks are new videos given the name and location.  It is quite understandable why it is not so good at automatically picking up changes to the video information.  In order to make it so would require a huge amount of churning on its database, and that would in turn severely impact performance.  The solution is to delete the entire source in the library and add it back whenever the user makes any large scale changes to the database.  That is acceptable, if not quite wonderful.  Such is life.  The issue is the sets do not seem to follow.  Every time I dump the movie sources and add them back, the sets revert to the original formats, and it is rather a pain to get them back in order.  I have two examples, and there have been more.
  1. Somehow at some point a set for Fantastic Beasts was automatically created and exists on all the KODI systems.  I prefer to have all the Hogwarts universe collected into a single set, so I have a Hogwarts set included in all the Harry Potter / Fantastic beasts .nfo files.  This works fine for all the videos except for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.  I cannot prevent KODI from tossing that video (but a bit oddly, not Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) into the Fantastic Beasts set, nor have I found a way to permanently delete the set.
  2. When I first created the Adams Family set, I just created a short description for the set.  I later realized I would rather include a snippet of the lyrics of the theme song from the original series.  Every time I delete the movie sources (which for the time being I am doing a lot), it reverts back to the original set with the short description, and I have to manually update the videos.
Since I have doing this every time I update a bunch of videos and since I have multiple KODI systems, this represents a lot of additional work, particularly in light of the fact changing the set info for each video is a bit involved.  How can I clear the set info completely from the KODI systems when I delete the source so the updated sets will be "permanent", rather than the outdated ones?

RE: Problem with 1 set - Karellen - 2023-09-21

(2023-09-21, 10:56)lesrhorer Wrote: This works fine for all the videos except for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.  I cannot prevent KODI from tossing that video (but a bit oddly, not Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) into the Fantastic Beasts set, nor have I found a way to permanently delete the set.
Can you post the contents of the nfo file to Kodi Paste Site and provide the link.

(2023-09-21, 10:56)lesrhorer Wrote: nor have I found a way to permanently delete the set.
You need to remove all movies from the set.

(2023-09-21, 10:56)lesrhorer Wrote: When I first created the Adams Family set, I just created a short description for the set.  I later realized I would rather include a snippet of the lyrics of the theme song from the original series.  Every time I delete the movie sources (which for the time being I am doing a lot), it reverts back to the original set with the short description, and I have to manually update the videos.
Again, need the nfo file.
I assume you are making these changes in the nfo file and scanning them back in?
If you have and still the wrong info is being loaded, then that means that Kodi is not seeing your nfo file as there is something wrong with it.

RE: Problem with 1 set - lesrhorer - 2023-09-21

(2023-09-21, 12:06)Karellen Wrote:
(2023-09-21, 10:56)lesrhorer Wrote: This works fine for all the videos except for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.  I cannot prevent KODI from tossing that video (but a bit oddly, not Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) into the Fantastic Beasts set, nor have I found a way to permanently delete the set.
Can you post the contents of the nfo file to Kodi Paste Site and provide the link.
Harry Potter 10 Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald.mkv (Recorded Thu Mar 14, 2019)
The set definition is at the bottom.
Quote:You need to remove all movies from the set.
I do that every single time, of course.  How else would I get the movie into the new set?  The Fantastic Beasts set also disappears from the Set list.  Then when I delete the sources and add them back, the Fantastic Beasts set shows up again with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in it.  I have to go to the Files list, select the video, and move it to the Hogwarts Universe set.
Quote:Again, need the nfo file.
Which one?  There isn't just one.  In any case, I don't really see the point of re-posting an entire .nfo file, let alone all of them.  This is the new set definition:
    <set>
        <name>Adams Family</name>
        <overview>
They're creepy and they're kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They're all together ooky
The Addams family
        </overview>
    </set>

This was the original definition:
    <set>
        <name>Adams Family</name>
        <overview>They're creepy and they're cooky</overview>
    </set>

Quote:I assume you are making these changes in the nfo file and scanning them back in?
No, not usually.  In fact, rarely.  When you say, "...the .nfo file...", I assume you mean the .nfo files associated with the sets in question?  No.  I may (or may not) be making changes to a bunch of .nfo files, but not the ones in question.  The only "change" relative to the files in question is to remove and add back the source containing the video files.
Quote:If you have and still the wrong info is being loaded, then that means that Kodi is not seeing your nfo file as there is something wrong with it.
Like what?  How can an error in a file effect something that should no longer exist (the old definition)?

RE: Problem with 1 set - lesrhorer - 2023-09-21

OK, hang on a bit.  I may have found the problem with #1.  I have to do some testing.  I don't think it affects #2.

RE: Problem with 1 set - izprtxqkft - 2023-09-21

off-topic - you are using the "information" tag for your posts erroneously, it is intended to be on posts Providing information not posts Requesting information

only to be informative, do what you want

RE: Problem with 1 set - DarrenHill - 2023-09-21

moderator note - the info tags have been removed, for the very reason given above.

RE: Problem with 1 set - lesrhorer - 2023-09-21

OK, I found the trouble with Grindelwald.  It's kind of subtle.  There was a small typo in the file NAME, not the file itself.  This meant KODI did not associate the video with the .nfo file, so it automatically got the video parms from the internet, meaning it assigned it to the Fantastic Beasts set, which I did not create.  The other 9 Hogwarts films were fine.  I fixed the typo and now they are all good.

The Adams Family films are still behaving oddly, and not picking up the correct set info unless I force it.

RE: Problem with 1 set - lesrhorer - 2023-09-21

(2023-09-21, 17:20)DarrenHill Wrote: moderator note - the info tags have been removed, for the very reason given above.

OK, got it.