.NFO file library updates

[clackerdacker]

Sorry if this turns out to have been discussed elsewhere but I couldn't find an exact fit for it when searching.

I generate my movie .NFO files every Sunday night to get the latest rating and votes values from IMDB as I quite often use the rating sort order. The only problem is that Update library doesn't seem to update movie details at all for existing movies. The only way I can seem to get it done is to do a manual Refresh on each of my 800+ movies :eek:

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

[febox-pootz]

i miss this feature too

[mason]

yep... but only solution so far is imho do discard the whole db and reimport it ... not very practicale on hughe libraries :/

[ultrabrutal]

A date could be saved in the XBMC database specifying when the movie was last scraped and a setting added specifying when entries are out dated. Then an Update could re-scan those entries.
Another solution could be if site being scrapper had a "last changed" date. This could be used to see if it was needed to do a re-scrape. Of course looking for this date will slow things down so probably shouldn't do it everytime or something

[febox-pootz]

but if this function only retrieve new rating/votes information from the NFO file, then we dont need the last changed date

[sho]

yep... but only solution so far is imho do discard the whole db and reimport it ... not very practicale on hughe libraries :/
And this is the reason mass update makes no sense as things are currently:
http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/4389