create your own fields of the media meta data.

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You should be aware that there are certain metadata fields that affect the use of parental controls. If you wish for the changes that you made to be persistent through a refresh of the item, you will need to either lock the metadata field you changed, or lock the entire item. Saving metadataīe sure to hit Save after changing ANY metadata otherwise, all of your changes will be lost when you navigate away from the page. Also, if you watch the 3D version but not the 2D version, the server will mark both formats as watched. This can mean that it can show up in the Resume tab or other places twice.

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One catch to this approach is that media items with the same IDs (for example, a movie that has both a 3D and 2D version) will be treated by the server as the exact same item regardless of the existence of two separate files. Database IDsĭatabase IDs are extremely important to the server to determine what each media item is and whether it has been watched. If an item is misidentified by the server, you can manually identify the item using the Identify button, or, if you already know the database IDs for your incorrectly identified item, simply insert the correct IDs into the database fields and refresh the item. Selecting None will prevent the server from changing any of the existing images and keep it from downloading more.Īll media can get their information from online databases such as TheMovieDB and TheTVDB.

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Download and replace images will force the server to redownload all of the images for the media item.Download only missing images (the default option) will only download images that are missing from the existing image collection.The Image refresh mode options will only affect the images that the server uses. Selecting None will not refresh any of the metadata.A local refresh will make the server reread the NFO or XML file that contains the metadata.Refreshing only missing data will preserve all of the existing metadata and only populate the fields that are missing metadata.Refreshing all data (the default option) will overwrite all of the fields with metadata from outside databases.The Metadata refresh mode options will only affect the text metadata. If you select the Advanced refresh button, you will get a popup with several options for what should be refreshed. In addition, it will download any images that may be missing (logos, disc images, posters, etc.). Selecting refresh will pull fresh metadata from each of the databases that the server is configured to pull from. Using the Metadata Manager Refreshing metadataĮach media item has the option to Refresh itself. This method will take you directly to the item in the editor. The metadata manager can be accessed via the slideout in the web client in the top left hand corner of the screen.Īnother way to access the metadata manager is via Options-> Edit of the item you would like to edit. The server has a metadata manager which allows you to view all of the metadata for every item in your library in one place. The media containing Alexander will now be displayed in the view.One of the areas in which MediaBrowser shines as a media server is the metadata management. Now when you go to > 'Media Library' > Searchbar (Top Middle)> and write the name of the people in the media 'Alexander' in this example. You can see a custom property field with the title ' People in Media' and you can write now who are in the video and press ' Save' or ' Cancel'ħ. Now you can find custom property in the Custom Properties list and let's move next to > Media Library and choose a video of your own choice > General Let's use ' Media in this example' and press ' Save'Ħ. The custom property will appear in a media, catalog or playlist depending on your choice in ' Use with'. You can choose 3 options in the ' Use with' field.

In that case activate the 'Make required' field.ĥ. Choose the ' Type' as ' Text' and if you want you require, it's possible to make this field required. Do not use spaces, since this is not allowed in the metadata.Ĥ. The second field is ' Name in API' and let's name it ' people_in_media'. The name of the this field could be ' people in the media'ģ. A form will appear that asks the ' Name in editor'. Go to Settings > Custom Properties > Press 'New'Ģ. Let's use an example to demonstrate this function by adding a field that asks which 'people' are in the video.ġ.

The custom properties that you can add in the settings are of the following type: The various fields can be then filled with metadata for each video. The inspect menu will appear when you choose a video, playlist or catalog in the Media Library. Each company uses videos in their own unique way and that's why we offer the opportunity to create custom properties, with functions that will appear as various fields in the Genreal Settings in the Inspect menu.

Create your own fields of the media meta data.