File names/episode titles

[disdain7]

I recently updated to the newest version and I have noticed a change in how my video titles are displayed. Pre update, the remote app would display the full file name, but now it’s changed. I’ll give an example:

Pre update “Cheers - S01E01 Episode name”
Post update “Cheers”

or another example would be I have older files with older names that I never changed. Like my Myth busters episodes are labeled as “mb.s01e02.exploding.toilet” and it would display that full name. Now it just shows as “mb”

Is this an issue with how I label my files? I haven’t seen anyone else discussing this on the forum so I’m wondering if this is just a me issue? It was super helpful because when I would notice an episode that I’d seen a lot or wasn’t a fan of I’d just check the name, make a note to delete it, and I’d do that.

I know it’s just a QoL thing at the end of the day and this is still my favorite project ever lol. But is there a way I can address on my end or was this the intended function?

[Tumerboy]

This is a result of a request I made a while back: #346

Essentially, I wanted the guide to say "Cheers" rather than "Cheers - S01E01 - Episode Name" since the old school guide channels didn't have that kind of info.

So, yes, it has to do with how you have your file names formatted. You can see a number of examples of filenames and how they parse in the issue I linked at the start.

Do you WANT to see the full name?

I believe that as it stands now, - . and maybe other things are used as separators, and it will just drop everything after the first. So "Cheers - S01E01 Episode Name" becomes "Cheers" in the guide.

If you want to see all of that info in the current system, you'd need to format your filenames to avoid those break characters. So maybe "Cheers S01E01 Episode Name" would work.

But it may be that if you want to see the full filenames, and I don't, that we really just need a switch someplace that we can flip between modes. Perhaps there could be a "Show_Full_Filename: True" flag in the guide Conf or something. I'll leave that to Shane to decide/figure out.

[shane-mason]

"Show_Full_Filename: True" flag in the guide Conf or something

Yeah, this is the answer. The things is, I think I did this a long time ago because someone had their files named as they wanted them displayed. I'll look when I get back near a computer, might just need to document it but it would be simple to add either way.

[disdain7]

I tried adding that to my guide json but didn’t see any changes.

[disdain7]

Ok it looks like as it stands here is what I have to do to get full titles to display:

Ax Mens02e03by Air, Land & Sea
Ax Mens02e10 Clash Of The Titans
Alone S02e11winters Fury

If I don't put spaces before and/or after the numbers that seems to do it. For fun I tried putting _ and - instead of spaces and that doesn't work. Before I go wild renaming all of my files, can someone please stop me with a better solution lol

[shane-mason]

I'm out of town this week, but I can just make a flag to let you bypass all the name fixes and just display what you have. Will look at it this weekend.

[disdain7]

That’s perfect, thanks and safe travels!

[shane-mason]

Okay - this has actually been a feature for a long time inside of guide.json:

"normalize_titles": false,

But, somewhere along the way, I started applying this as soon as objects were pulled from the database (probably so I didn't call it all the time, just the once). So now, this is applied in main_config.json - if you don't want normalization applied, just add the following line to confs/main_config.json

"normalize_titles": false,

[disdain7]

I made the file and even pasted the entire example in and only changed the word true to false and still no change. Is it just running the field player after that and it should see the change and act accordingly?

[shane-mason]

Did you do a git pull in the repo directory to pull down the changes? You'll need to do that and then restart field_player after any config changes.

[disdain7]

Yes I did and no change so far.

[shane-mason]

Did you set it in the guide.json file as well? It has to be set in both I think. Not optimal, but it should work.

[disdain7]

I’ve set both and there is no change.

[ekalkst]

Having similar issues, after recent pull the osd is showing a different title, cutting off some point. I've added to the main.config the normalize false but it still persists. I tried rebuilding the catalog as well, looking at the playstatus socket i see the title block and the file path block, with title being the cutoff version

[ConnorDY]

Ah maybe it was because it didn't rebuild the sequence. Let me try again. Thanks!

[shane-mason]

Yeah - there are still some weird behavior to work out with sequences. The upcoming station configuration GUI will make it so I have to deal with them a bit.

[ConnorDY]

So I renamed the files to the format "Series Name S01E01.mp4" and rebuilt the the catalog + the sequences.
The guide now just shows "Series Name" for each episode. Is there any way to change that?

[shane-mason]

Okay - its fixed. Update from the repo and set "normalize_titles": false in main_config.json to turn it off at the system level - you don't have to set anything in guide.json to turn it off. However, if you do turn if off in main_config.json, you can turn it back on in guide.json if you want.

[disdain7]

Its perfect, thanks for sorting it out!