(null/null) inserted into my titles?!

Attached the pertinent parts of the log.
I did notice that even in DEBUG mode, the log still has the INFO tag...is that normal?

[zip]

yes, this is not the detailed log. there should be a lot of DEBUG rows. Make sure you restart the windows service / or your PC

Found my issue with the INFO/DEBUG log...the console was being run under a User and not a Admin. Interestingly, when done so, the console Status page will allow you to press the Stop Server button and it will respond and show the server as stopped...but it does not actually stop the server! Under the same conditions, when a User continues and presses "Start Server", the console responses that the server started when in all reality, it had never stopped...got a bug there. Should have a error message that a User cannot stop the server and the console sure should read the actual condition of the server service, so even though the Stop Server was pressed, the server still shows as up.

Anyways, on to the null/null issue. Attached is the DEBUG log with all Tangled items and all others extracted.
The log starts at 2019-11-25 10:00:05,109 and recognizes a new entry at 2019-11-25 10:00:05,109 for Tangled in a new folder "Tangled [tt0398286]".
I believe a key shows up in the MetadataExtractionCoordinator lines 74 & 75.
The Embedded entry type is Movie but it gives it a "seasonNumber=null, seriesName=T" properties. The ONLINE_VIDEO_SOURCES also sets type as MOVIE but sets the "seasonNumber=null, seriesName=null" properties correctly.
The log continues through adding the file to the Library.
At 2019-11-25 10:05:42,993 I change the Folder name back to "Tangled" and the process starts over with the same MetadataExtractionCoordinator entries in Lines 109 & 112.

So if the system is thinking it is seeing this Series Name embedded in the file metadata, how can I get to that data (see and change)? Obviously the Windows File Properties and Mp3Tag are not seeing the full metadata lists.

[atc98092]

Found my issue with the INFO/DEBUG log...the console was being run under a User and not a Admin. Interestingly, when done so, the console Status page will allow you to press the Stop Server button and it will respond and show the server as stopped...but it does not actually stop the server!

Actually. the Stop Server button controls the DLNA server function, not the Serviio service. Those are two different functions, and it's always worked that way. Using that button you can reload the profiles config file, but for the log I believe you have to actually stop the Serviio service itself. You can either stop/start the service with the Services app, or simply reboot the computer.

Ok - that matches with my previous understanding of that Status Tab server button's function was, so maybe we have a "precision of language" mismatch with the line on the Detailed Logging page ( https://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=detail_logging), where it says "Stop and Start the server in the console Status tab" when trying to reset the server to allow the new logging to happen.

[atc98092]

Ok - that matches with my previous understanding of that Status Tab server button's function was, so maybe we have a "precision of language" mismatch with the line on the Detailed Logging page ( https://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=detail_logging), where it says "Stop and Start the server in the console Status tab" when trying to reset the server to allow the new logging to happen.

I wasn't aware of that wiki post, so it does sound like restarting using that button should reload the log config file.

Petr, Dan,
Thank you guys for helping with this. It appears that Serviio is doing exactly what it is being told by the embedded metadata. I used TagScanner and 'MP4 Video and Audio Tag Editor' to confirm that there were other metadata fields that I could see with neither Windows Properties nor Mp3Tag that were somehow set to define the files as TV Shows under the parent folder's name (in this case my alphabetized structure).

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TagScanner names the field TVShow, MP4 Vid uses the simple name of Show. By removing these entries, when I refresh the metadata in Serviio, all returns to expected outputs.

So now I have nearly 1000 movies to update! The two tools mentioned above are one at a time tools...any suggestions on apps that could scan, pull online data and rewrite en masse? Or one that can load more than one and can write just the metadata back to the file without resaving the entire move file?

[zip]

ah yes, I only now realised Serviio actually looks at the embedded metadata for series as well (it was added in a recent version I think).

I think (without checking the code) if you enable online metadata it should use that info and overwrite the embedded metadata. Di you try that? (sorry if you already mentioned it, I didnt go through the whole thread again)

Yeah, unfortunately the Online Resources has been on this entire time so no love there with overwriting the embedded metadata. I'm just working my way through the "H"s now, one at a time, correcting the embedded stuff.
Did run across a TV vs Mini-series vs Movie issue that I have added to the forum herehttps://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26166 though that you can weigh in on...
Thx
Tom

[kittmaster]

I'm seeing this behavior now in V2.

There needs to be a way to turn this feature or subsection meta read off. Not everyone is going to bag and tag these fields.

I've turned off the onine version and rescanning to see if it corrects it.....but this is something that should be investigated for conformance.

Using "NULL" everywhere is very annoying, if the meta is null then just render is as 0 data and format the strings without it, adding NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL everywhere........well, you can see how annoying that looks.

Please advise if this can be looked into.

Best,
Chris

[zip]

I've created a ticket https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... if-episode