I have decade collections set up with all movies in my plex to be sorted into decades and I would like them sorted ascending by release. I receive an error sort_by attribute not supported. Is there no way to have them display from oldest to newest in the collection. Thanks for taking a look. I have tried various combinations.
#Issue with sorting some collections.
tidal tree
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blissful hollow
Can you provide a log showing the error in context?
And maybe describe what this means?
I have tried various combinations
There are a lot of collections there. Which are affected?
This:
collections:
Best 2010+ Movies:
smart_filter:
all:
year.gte: 2010
sort_by: audience_rating.desc
limit: 20
Is straight from the docs and works fine.
Compare this to yours:
templates:
Decade:
smart_filter:
any:
decade: <<decade>>
url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/<<poster>>
sort_title: +001_Best of <<decade>>
collection_mode: hide
sort_by: release.asc
and you'll note that sort_by is in the wrong place, and as noted isn't valid there. You'd use collection_order to set it at the collection level.
If I change yours to:
templates:
Decade:
smart_filter:
any:
decade: <<decade>>
url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/<<poster>>
sort_title: +001_Best of <<decade>>
sort_by: release.asc
collection_mode: hide
It creates the collection without an error, but doesn't set the sort_title or the poster, since those are in the wrong place.
If I change it to:
templates:
Decade:
smart_filter:
any:
decade: <<decade>>
sort_by: release.asc
url_poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/<<poster>>
sort_title: +001_Best of <<decade>>
collection_mode: hide
Then it sets the sort title and complains that Poster DB is down:
Collection Warning: No Poster Found at https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/213588
Sorted by release ascending
tidal tree
And maybe describe what this means?
> I have tried various combinations
This is my log. What I find really odd is that the "decades" collections seem to have the error but the "Best of "do not. The decades collection is sorted properly but the "best of" are not sorted properly.
blissful hollow
This is my log. What I find really odd is that the "decades" collections seem t...
Did you make those changes prior to this run?
blissful hollow
This is my log. What I find really odd is that the "decades" collections seem t...
That's not odd; the problem was in the template, which isn't used by the "Best of" collections in your yaml.
blissful hollow
These:
| 11 | Collection Error: sort_by attribute not supported |
Are caused by what I pointed out above.
These:
| 9 | Collection Error: imdb_search sort_by attribute audience_rating.desc must be in [popularity.asc, popularity.desc, title.asc, title.desc, rating.asc, rating.desc, votes.asc, votes.desc, box_office.asc, box_office.desc, runtime.asc, runtime.desc, year.asc, year.desc, release.asc, release.desc] |
Explain right there what the problem is. audience_rating.desc is not valid in that context; you have to use one of those listed sorts.
These:
| 9 | Playlist Error: Library: TV Shows not defined |
Are because you aren't providing your library names in the playlist config; it's using the defaults [Movies and TV Shows] and you don't have "TV Shows".
The other two are because the default star trek playlist trakt list has gone away and needs to be replaced. This is fixed in nightly.
tidal tree
I implemented the above changes to my decades and am getting an odd error message I cannot figure out. On a different note, how do I prevent the playlist error TV shows not defined when I have no intention of using PMM with television?
stoic verge
I implemented the above changes to my decades and am getting an odd error messag...
you specify which libraries you want to use
tidal tree
My config never says the word "television"
stoic verge
right, but playlist assumes that, so you need to use the template variables to tell it what libaries you want it to run
the Wiki shows what the default libraries are, and that you can silence that error by useing a variable
tidal tree
Thanks I think I have that fixed now on the television issue. The bigger question is the multiple Unknown Error: (404) not_found that I am now receiving.
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stoic verge
by the way, on your seasonal, the collection_section belongs under template variables
have you tried nightly?
tidal tree
I have not tried nightly. I figured I was pretty happy just to have it working. What would I do for nightly implementation?
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blissful hollow
The 404s are PMM asking Plex to set the summary on a collection using an id that Plex provided. Plex is responding "I don't have such a thing.". There isn't much PMM can do about that.
You may try deleting the collections and letting PMM recreate them.
tidal tree
I have been tinkering and have run into some issues I cannot figure out. 1. My Decades collections were deleted and added again based on the above recommendation however, now they sort with decades first, then best of decades. I really liked it where it would be 1930s then right next to it 1930's Best of . 2. I am trying to get the decades to sort by year ascending which they do, but I want the Best of to be sorted by rating.desc. 3. I moved the posters to the assets folders of each collection but they are not loading. 4. My Seasonal collection will not move to the top no matter what I try. I have run multiple tries at it but have not been able to move it.
Thanks for the help.
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stoic verge
@tidal tree can you post most recent log?
your radarr_add_missing for universe needs to go under template_variables. not sure why you keep putting variables in the wrong place
collection_section under genre is not indented properly
tidal tree
The radarr_add_missing was under template variables and also above. I am a dunce. I have all other collections lined up the way I want except the Decades and the Seasonal.
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stoic verge
you still have radarr_add_missing duplicated
and collection_section in genre is still not correct indent
you're setting a sort prefix. in regard to above, by default, the seasonal collections are already at the top. without changing anything, seasonal collections sit at top for me. you've changed some prefix, which seems to have changed what you are wanting
and your file_poster in decade, points to a folder and not a file. if you are in fact using assets, then file_poster isn't needed.
@tidal tree see above
tidal tree
Going one by one. Seasonal rests at the very bottom after my people section.
stoic verge
what is the sort title?
tidal tree
On my seasonal all I have is sort_prefix: "! 000001" on directors I have sort_prefix: zzz
collection_section: 950
stoic verge
this is default, and seasonal is at top. Which is why i'm asking
stoic verge
On my seasonal all I have is sort_prefix: "! 000001" on directors I have s...
right, well that's why the sort isn't working. you really don't need to modify the sort prefix
if you want seasonal up top, then don't mess with the sort prefix, out of the box season will sit at top
tidal tree
You are saying remove the sort_prefix and have nothing? I will try.
stoic verge
i am not fully understanding the order you want things sorted. you really only need to change the collection_section on each of the defaults that you are wanting to move
tidal tree
Do you think because seasonal is scheduled only Thursday that nothing I do will change it until then?
stoic verge
yeah, that's true. you can tell pmm to ignore schedules, or you can temporarily turn off the schedule
tidal tree
Funny if you read really far up in this thread I was told to add sort_prefix so I did. I have no issues with any sorting other then decades.
I turned off the schedule.
You are right it was closed. This was supposed to be about sorting within the collection. ... until other issues popped up. For the life of me I cannot figure why the decades and Best of changed sorting. I checked a backup and it had the same settings.
As for the posters, if I place them in the right folders in the Asset directory how do I get PMM to use them?
stoic verge
well, don't point to the folder using a file reference. those lines should be taken out
what is the path to your 1920's Films?
and you need to set your depth more than 0, i use 3... But when using folders like you are, you do need a depth of more than 0
tidal tree
"X:\Users\vince\Plex-Meta-Manager\config\assets\1920's Films" Full path
The file inside the folder is "Decades 1-1920s"
stoic verge
for assets to work, the file needs to be named poster.ext ext being replaced with whatever the extension of the file is
that's how assets work
tidal tree
I would name it poster.png in every asset folder?
stoic verge
yes
blissful hollow
As for the posters, if I place them in the right folders in the Asset directory ...
If they are named correctly PMM will pick them up by name; you don't need to point at them.
stoic verge
or turn on dimensional_asset_rename: true. it's already in your settings, you just need to set it to true
tidal tree
Does dimensional_asset_rename: true mean I do not need to rename them all?
stoic verge
right
tidal tree
Bingo. Trying it now. My run is taking some time so I will check back around 10pm.
stoic verge
well those won't happen unless you cancel and restart your run
blissful hollow
This article goes through all the asset stuff with lots of examples:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EIfLspoNk3PgvTMYgkI-0DAh2WauEYeQ4FZRpklFC0w/edit
tidal tree
Thanks. I have been creating some posters so it is nice to learn how to have them added by PMM instead of manually.
stoic verge
did you restart pmm? @tidal tree
if so, can you please provide a current log, even if incomplete?
tidal tree
Received errors on the dimensional_asset_rename: true
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stoic verge
it was already in your config.yml you only needed to change that setting to true, which you didn't do. LOL
it doesn't go in your other yml files @tidal tree
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I cannot figure this one for the life of me. Only two posters appeared. 2010 and 2020 Films. All asset folders have files with the same name of poster. All other decade collections have no posters. To add another layer, I changed my config to true in dimensional_asset_rename: true.
stoic verge
How are you folders for the collection assets?
you are selectively making changes
you have assets set up in folders, so FIRST, you need to set the asset_depth in your settings to a number more than 0. I suggest 3
AND, ALL your references to file_poster in your decades need to be removed since you are using assets. you are just referencing a folder in those cases @tidal tree
blissful hollow
All asset folders have files with the same name of poster
What does that mean?
All of these:
[ERROR] | Unknown Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: "/config/assets/2000's Films"
are because you have this in your YAML files:
file_poster: config/assets/2000's Films/
You are telling PMM "Use this file for the poster" and you are giving PMM the path to a folder, not a file.
Remove that everywhere it appears in your decade YAMLs.
Then show me what is in the assets directory for these collections.
tidal tree
> All asset folders have files with the same name of poster
What does that mean...
PlantationCane
OP
— Yesterday at 9:07 PM
I would name it poster.png in every asset folder?
Antwan — Yesterday at 9:07 PM
yes
tidal tree
All of these:
```
[ERROR] | Unknown Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: "/confi...
Every file in the asset folders is labeled "poster"
Mr. Carrot. I think you are looking at my decades file from yesterday. I made changes already and posted at 9:59am a decades file with all the file_poster: config/assets/2000's Films/ already removed.
Nope.. Of course I am wrong and you are right. Let me get back to work.
blissful hollow
Those errors are in the last log you provided above.
stoic verge
look again, and you need to set the depth larger than 0
tidal tree
Can you give a quick explanation of depth?
blissful hollow
It's how deep into the file system PMM dives when looking for assets.
stoic verge
So when you say zero, it’s not going to look past the initial asset folder. With all your assets setup in folder, that is part of the reason why assets aren’t working. In addition to others…
blissful hollow
For example, given this pathological setup:
plantationcane/
└── assets
├── movies
│ └── s
│ └── comedy
│ └── bill_murray
│ └── Stripes (1980)
│ └── poster.png
└── shows
└── s
└── comedy
└── bill_murray
└── Saturday Night Live (1975)
└── poster.png
and plantationcane/assets as the asset dir, you'd need a depth of 5 to find either of those posters
If the asset dir were set to plantationcane/assets/movies/s/comedy/bill_murray the depth could be 0
etc
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Hoping another set of eyes can figure this out. Only two of the "best of" collections had posters added (see screenshot). I set depth to 5. In the folders of those that did not apply the poster is labeled exactly like the other folders that did apply. Folder directories look the same.
blissful hollow
There's no information about where those folders are.
Many of these collections are failing because of an IMDB issue, so they aren't getting to the point of setting artwork.
stoic verge
assets for those collections are not running because those collections are erroring out, it appears
tidal tree
OK then that makes sense that the error is not allowing it to move forward and apply the poster. So then the next question is about the error. The message is Unknown Error: 'data' . There is some language above in the debug that I need help comprehending.
blissful hollow
That's not an error that you can do anything about. IMDB is not returning the expected payload on an intermittent basis.
stoic verge
IMDb has had some intermittent problems the last few days
tidal tree
LOL. You mean I finally did not so something wrong? Shocking. Have a good night.
tidal tree
I have an odd situation with my IMDB search limit. In my Best of Decades collections I placed a limit of 100 in all imdb seach criterion. 2010 and 2020 are way over 100 in my collection. Then in a whole different .yml I have warnings in my log and I did not place a 100 limit.
wise jacinth
Fix you auth issues or comment the sections out that you don't use
wise jacinth
Are you sure about the numbers? Plex has a bug where the ui shows a number greater than what is actually in the collection
stoic verge
plex will show 800 or 1000, but then when you actually go in the collection, there is only the 100
tidal tree
There are 186 movies in 2010 Best of.
wise jacinth
have you tried to delete that specific collection and then run a collection-only run (to avoid all the other items) and share teh log here?
tidal tree
The other issue is within the Best of colletion. I have sort_by: rating.desc
limit: 100. Neither seem to be followed. Are these not part of the imdb search?
How do I do the collection only run? By collection only do you mean my Decades.yml or the 2010 Best of? I would love to know this technique.
wise jacinth
-r -co
python plex_meta_manager.py -r -co
or even more targetted
python plex_meta_manager.py -r -co -rl "Movies"
tidal tree
I only have movies setup so that would be a full run right?
wise jacinth
no it would be a collections only run for your Movies library
ie. a full run of your movies would include metadata, operations, and overlays, AND collections
-co will only run collections only for all defined libraries in config
in your case since you have only Movies defined, then it would only do collections for that 1 Library
you have some yml issues in your config
playlist_sync_to_user: all --> playlist_sync_to_users: all
ignore_imdb_ids: false --> ignore_imdb_ids:
collection_section: 600 is not indented properly so might as well delete that line
tidal tree
no true or false for ignore_imdb_ids: ?
tidal tree
Fixed all that you recommended. I am inadequate with docker- pytrhon. If I normally use this as my commend how would I edit it to do just the collection run? docker run -it -v "C:\Users\vince\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager: –run
blissful hollow
change --run to -r -co -rl "Movies"
Also, remove this colon:
meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:
^
Ok. Thanks for the help. I deleted my best ofs and am running now. I will post the log when complete. Much appreciated.
tidal tree
I deleted the collections and they were not recreated. Log attached and Decades.yml attached.
wise jacinth
please swithc to nightly
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wise jacinth
and try again
tidal tree
Ran nightly. I deleted the Best of collections from plex and they were not recreated. Log attached and Decades.yml attached. The "Best of" collections are contained in the Decade.yml.
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wise jacinth
Hmm... peculiar... hoping someone else sees what might be going on. An extra set of eyes...
stoic verge
@wise jacinth @tidal tree they aren't being created due to the error beign returned by imdb
wise jacinth
What is the specific error that IMDb is returning that would indicate this?
I'd like to read it and get a better understanding of it.
stoic verge
every imdb_search has Unknown Error: 'data' @wise jacinth
does it have to do with the limit?
wise jacinth
Well, I was expecting an actual error from the IMDb site. I don't know if that Unknown error is related to the IMDb site or to the yaml itself.
Someone with more experience on the team would need to chime in.
blissful hollow
The response JSON coming back from IMDB [which is coming back fine, no errors] is missing a field that PMM expects it to contain. This is entirely on IMDB's end.
wise jacinth
You think there is a way to capture this and report it with luma or will that possibly send people down a diffeeent path as this error might be too generic to capture and report on?
tidal tree
Need some guidance. I did an ovehaul and am testing two methods for best of decade. One is using mdblist with lists that I crete. The lists are good but I set a limit of 100 and it seems maybe only the bottom are being added? I thought it would go in order from the top with the limit.
Second is the bottom half of the list is working with imdb but displaying in the collection by year.asc which is really against the point of a best of list. I want top rated on top.
Attached is my new .yml with early decades using MDB and later imdb. Log attached as well.
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blissful hollow
There is so much in there and no errors that I can see. What specifically should I look at?
Can you do a targeted run with just a couple of the specific collections you're having trouble with?
tidal tree
https://mdblist.com/lists/vinlaw/best-of-2000s-by-scores is a list I created. On my Best_of_decades-MDBLIST.yml . I have a 100 limit. PMM is currently pulling from the bottom of the list. Is there a line of code I should insert in order to get the url list into the collection from the top of the list and stop at 100?
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blissful hollow
As far as I can tell this is working as documented and expected.
| Builder: mdblist_list: {'url': 'https://mdblist.com/lists/vinlaw/best-of-2000s-by-scores', 'limit': 100, 'sort_by': 'rank.asc'} |
| |
| Processing Mdblist.com List: https://mdblist.com/lists/vinlaw/best-of-2000s-by-scores |
| Sort By: rank.asc |
| Limit: 100 items |
The default sort is rank.asc, which is what it's giving you. Sort by rank, ascending, and give me the first 100.
If you look at the mdblist builder page in the wiki:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/nightly/files/builders/mdblist/#mdblist-list
You can also limit the number of items to search for by using the limit and url attributes under mdblist_list.
You can also sort the items by using the sort_by and url attributes under mdblist_list.
The default sort_by when it's not specified is rank.asc.
There are a number of different sort options listed there:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/nightly/files/builders/mdblist/#sort-options
And an example of how to use them:
collections:
Top 10 Movies of The Week:
mdblist_list:
url: https://mdblist.com/lists/linaspurinis/top-watched-movies-of-the-week
sort_by: imdbrating.desc
collection_order: custom
sync_mode: sync
So, if you want the top 100 from that list, you want to sort by rank.desc to put the top ones first, then as noted there:
For these sorts to be reflected in your collection you must use collection_order: custom.
You have that in the template already, so would end up as something like:
2000's Films Best of Collection:
template: {name: Best of Decade}
mdblist_list:
url: https://mdblist.com/lists/vinlaw/best-of-2000s-by-scores
limit: 100
sort_by: rank.desc
summary: A collection of only the best films of the 2000s
Thanks. Working as planned.
stoic verge
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blissful hollow
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