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junk_struc:

Regarding the dangling files, I asked a similar question on the MC forum.  the last reply seems like a good answer, haven't tried it yet. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=54909.0

Craig

junk_struc:


thanks for all of your replies rick.  greatly appreciated.

is there a way for me to give PVD the imdb id directly.  i have all of these from the mymovies database and can assemble path, title year etc from MC playlist as you suggested in an excel file (unfortuantely MC doesn't import this field from mymovies).  the excel import plugin doesn't have this field as an option.  can i import it into another largely unused filed, say comments and then bulk copy from one field to another?

thanks
craig

rick.ca:
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to do or why. If you want to import the ID alone, you can put it in any unused field or create a custom field for it. But I can't imagine what you would use it for. Features that might use it (e.g., using it in Web searches) don't exist yet.

If your only interest in the ID is to ensure proper matching to the IMDb entry, then convert it to a URL and import it to the URL field. Assuming you have the ID in Excel, create URLs with "ht tp://imdb.com/title/"&[ID]&"/".

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: junk_struc on November 19, 2009, 11:49:18 pm ---
Regarding the dangling files, I asked a similar question on the MC forum.  the last reply seems like a good answer, haven't tried it yet. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=54909.0
--- End quote ---

In case you don't understand what he means... Change or create a view so it includes all files types (or at least all those that would otherwise "dangle"). Then the rename/move command can be applied to all files. If you don't want to modify your Video view to do this, create a new root view using Add Library View and set Location to (Root).

junk_struc:

Sorry for the confusion.  I want the IMDB ID to ensure that it picks up the correct title from IMDB.  When i did the silent import with title and year, it still got quite a few wrong/or didn't choose anything due to ambiguity of title and year.   

I have gone through the manual selection process in mymovies already and thus have all of the correct imdb id's.  So I think I want to do your later option, i.e. create a url for it.  i presume that PVD will use this first (i.e. in preference to title and year) during the query to imdb to get the remainder of the fields?

thanks again
craig

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