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Hi Everyone,
I just started using Video Station on my DS220j running DSM 7.0.1. Slowly building up my TV show collection. I was doing backup of my colllection so I figure I may as well use Video Station to make it organized and also allow me to stream to my other devices.
So far it's been working out okay but I noticed a pretty major issue when getting metadata from The Movie Database Video Info Plugin. I did read the instruction online and renamed all my files in the recommended format ShowName.Sxx.Eyy. The ones I seem to always have trouble with are the shows that have an updated series. For example, DuckTales 1987 and DuckTales 2017. I only have 1987 collection and the data it found and matched with is the 2017 version so everything is wrong. I manually edit the TV Show info to match the 1987 metadata (using Edit and Search for the data thru the video info plugin) and got that sorted. The problem is the app is not smart enough to automatically fix all the metadata for all the episodes. I ended up manually editing each episode info and search thru plugin to correct each one but you can imagine that took awhile. It is pretty painful. With my entry level NAS, I can't install too many packages (limited memory). That's why I am only using video station and nothing else for this. I am aware that there other better apps/packages for DSM from reading other forum posts but I am worried it will slow my NAS to a crawl or worst (crashing it)...
Before I manually fixed everything, I tried renaming the files to DuckTales (1987).S01.E01 format but that didn't help, still got the wrong data. There are other shows in similar situation and it will take forever to fix up every single one so I am hoping you know a better way to do this. I was thinking about triggering re-indexing but I wouldn't think that will help because it will likely mean getting the wrong metadata again.
Thanks in advance.
I just started using Video Station on my DS220j running DSM 7.0.1. Slowly building up my TV show collection. I was doing backup of my colllection so I figure I may as well use Video Station to make it organized and also allow me to stream to my other devices.
So far it's been working out okay but I noticed a pretty major issue when getting metadata from The Movie Database Video Info Plugin. I did read the instruction online and renamed all my files in the recommended format ShowName.Sxx.Eyy. The ones I seem to always have trouble with are the shows that have an updated series. For example, DuckTales 1987 and DuckTales 2017. I only have 1987 collection and the data it found and matched with is the 2017 version so everything is wrong. I manually edit the TV Show info to match the 1987 metadata (using Edit and Search for the data thru the video info plugin) and got that sorted. The problem is the app is not smart enough to automatically fix all the metadata for all the episodes. I ended up manually editing each episode info and search thru plugin to correct each one but you can imagine that took awhile. It is pretty painful. With my entry level NAS, I can't install too many packages (limited memory). That's why I am only using video station and nothing else for this. I am aware that there other better apps/packages for DSM from reading other forum posts but I am worried it will slow my NAS to a crawl or worst (crashing it)...
Before I manually fixed everything, I tried renaming the files to DuckTales (1987).S01.E01 format but that didn't help, still got the wrong data. There are other shows in similar situation and it will take forever to fix up every single one so I am hoping you know a better way to do this. I was thinking about triggering re-indexing but I wouldn't think that will help because it will likely mean getting the wrong metadata again.
Thanks in advance.