Metagenerator 3 -- Support & Downloads

Support and download links for Metagenerator 3 (MG3) are now transferred from the pyTivo forum to this thread, starting with the release of MG3 Ver. 3.83

Metagenerator looks up metadata for TV Shows and Movies, including Rovi-style programId and seriesId. It creates pyTivo .txt metadata output files but also can insert metadata into .mp4 and .wtv files. It can create output folders, and rename output files, based on metadata. It has automatic and semi-automatic modes. There is no user guide for MG3 but a complete cumulative change log is included in each version distribution. Searching this log and/or posting questions on this forum are the two best ways to get help.

Metagenerator was originally programmed by Master Cephus and has been enhanced and supported by me starting in 2011.

NOTE REGARDING ANTI-VIRUS:
Norton AV and Windows Defender have flagged some distributed MG3 files but these are believed to be false alarms. Just configure an AV exception for the MG3 runtime folder.

Change Log: The change log is included in the distribution zip. Only the changes for the latest version will be given in this post:

Ver. 3.90 (17 January 2020)
Enhanced: Changed program icon
Enhanced: Operator cancel buttons added for RPC seriesId and (series) programId searches.
Enhanced: If item in distroSeriesIds.txt or distroMovideIds.txt doesn't match item in local knownSeriesIds.txt, pop-up allows user to choose whether to accept the distro value, or other choices.
Changed: Program ported toe Visual Studio 2019.
Changed: .NET 4.0 required (previously was 2.0)
Fixed: 22 result limit for TV series search results was incorrectly applied.
Enhanced: Series results not including an english language overview are excluded from results list.
Changed: TV Series searches access API Ver. 3.0.0 by default, forced by theTVDB.com -- no code changes in MG3 to do this.
Enhanced: Series search results are sorted by title similarity to search term. Trailing years such as (2001) are ignored in similarity ordering

Known movie programId's are added to the database when movie metadata is saved to a pyTivo .txt metadata file either individually or during movie autoprocessing. See post #265 of this thread for more info on the movie programId database:
Metagenerator 3 -- Support & Downloads

Use of the {resolution} tag is optional and requires mediaInfo.dll in the installation (run time) folder.
Download here: MediaInfo.zip
See discussion in this pyTiiVo forum thread from July 18-21, 2011 for details on this and the optional filenamer.VBS file:
pyTivo Discussion Forum :: View topic - MetaGenerator Version 3

You can download the latest version of MG3, 3.90 in the attached zip file.
There is no installer. Just extract the files to any folder and create a shortcut to MetaGenerator Version 3.exe.
NOTE: To avoid weird Windows file permission issues it is recommended that you do NOT put MG3 into a folder under the "Program files" or "Program Files (x86)" folders, and that you follow the procedure given in Post #125 of this thread for unzipping the downloaded distro:
Metagenerator 3 -- Support & Downloads

You can download rpcSearch128.zip here:
rpcSearch128.zip
Putting rpcSearch128.exe (from this zip) into your MG3 runtime folder allows you to do RPC searches for programId's and seriesId's without having python installed on your computer.

 

I'm trying to figure out what's going on here -- very strange since the previous version (rpcSearch125.exe, .zip) had no such issues and I haven't changed anything about how these files are generated or uploaded to mediafire.com.

I think I did get the Win10 1803 update between the times these two versions were created, so maybe that changed something.

Meanwhile I've removed rpcsearch126.zip from mediafire.

 

Frankly never figured out exactly what the problem was but finally got a version of rpcSearch126.zip up on mediafire.com that doesn't show the "virus" problem and have edited the link in the first post. Whatever it was did not involve any changes in the rpcSearch126.py code or the method used to generate the .exe and .zip files. Rather it appeared to be related to Win10 folders and permissions.

I didn't catch the virus warning icon on mediatfilre.com (file view, which only I can see) because (1) it's very small and (2) I've never encountered this problem before. I (and 18 other people) downloaded the original rpcsearch126.zip and neither .zip nor .exe showed any virus detections on my PC, using Sophos Home AV. And MG3 ran fine with the downloaded file. So I'm guessing the issue was some quirky interaction between the Win10 file system and mediafire.com.

 

Unfortunately rpcSearch zip files are too large to be attached to posts here, thus my use of mediafire.com. However after this recent glitch I am open to suggestions for a better file sharing site.

 

Is that for MG3 or rpcSearch126.exe?

 

What is your PC and Windows version?

It's showing 18 downloads with the updated rpcSearch126.zip link in the first post. Is anyone else seeing this issue?

 

I just checked using rpcSearch126.exe and no problems.

 

Something very strange going on, I'm guessing a weird interaction with the virus checker built into mediaFire.com.
A couple of days ago, MediaFire was showing no virus flag for rpcSearch126.zip but now it is. My Sophos AV shows no detections for either the .zip or the .exe.

Thus I would like to explore using a different download system. Try this One-Drive link:
rpcsearch126.zip

This is a Microsoft utility so conceivably there could be problems with a Windows emulation, which I assume is what Boot Camp on the iMac is.

 

I've updated the link in the first post to the OneDrive download.