Metagenerator 3 -- Support & Downloads

The good news it's working again for me ... the bad news ... MG3 returns more search results than it used to.

TVDB v2 searches in MG3 for "ruins" only returned "Adam Ruins Everything". Similarly, searches for "fringe" only returned the show "Fringe".

Now, when I do the same searches, I get the expected shows in the results, but also many more shows. Some of the titles appear to be in different languages.

Any ideas on what happened to search? I know TVDB improved their search functionality significantly ... maybe the changes impacted MG3 negatively? Maybe they changed the way they handle languages?

Can you have a look @dlfl?

 

Down for most of the day. Its working again now.

 

Thanks for the update. Yep, that's what I'm seeing now. I get search results for the series title, but it crashes when I try to retrieve episode info. Will wait it out.

 

Sorry for TVDB wasting your time @dlfl, but thanks for looking into the issues!

Last night MG3 worked briefly and then later I only got search timeouts.

This morning I’m getting search results, but when I click on a series title, MG3 crashes. I suspect this is the same error everyone else is seeing:

Code:

************** Exception Text **************

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

   at MetaDataSearch.theTVDBSearch.BuildSeries(String& status)

   at TVSearchForm.TVSearchForm.bwShowSelected_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

   at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e)

   at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument) 

FYI … I’m able to search TVDB from the web site this morning.

When TVDB first rolled out v3 of the web site earlier this summer, they were going to wait and roll out v3 of the API at some later date. It seems like this upgrade to v3 of the web site also included v3 of the API? Is that your understanding as well @dlfl? I can't find any definitive statements in the TVDB forums.

 

Sorry if someone already posted about this. I see "unhandled exception" when I select a TV show from the search results. I upgraded to lasted version (3.89). Still see unhandled exeception. See attachments for screenshot and details.

 

FYI, I updated the attached screenshot to show v3.89. Thanks for your reply.

 

It was working about an hour ago. I got metadata for 2 TV series.

 

Working for me right now too.

 

It's good to hear that it's working again.

 

It's working for TV and movies again. TV search is very slow..... Terrific program, Thanks!!!

 

@dlfl It seems to be working. TVDB is returning results, but I need to do some more testing to make sure they're correct, especially given the API changes and issues.

Been busy the last few days and just now trying to catch up.

I'll give more detailed feedback later tonight or tomorrow.

 

Some one word shows could be a problem with a limit of 10. Can you make it so 11+ shows could be seen by user selection?

 

I’ve tested quite a bit and MG3 seems to be working fine with TVDB with the exception of the new search results.

TVDB is still slow at times. I added an episode last night and it still isn’t showing in the TVDB results … hopefully it’s a cache issue like I had recently.

I’m still seeing the search issue and I agree with @Sparky1234 about series with only one word. With one-word series titles, we’ll have to rely on refining the MG3/TVDB API search results or allow the results screen to show more than it does now.

Searching for “ruins” used to find only “Adam Ruins Everything” and now returns several titles, some of which appear to be in a different language. This particular search is easily fixed by adding another word to the search terms.

Searching for “fringe” used to yield a small set of results (I don’t remember if it was the only result). Now, the results fill the MG3 screen. Many of the results are in a different language that are probably not relevant to an English language search. AFAIK, MG3 is English only.

Can you narrow the MG3 searches to English language only? That might fix some of the problems.

TVDB v3 significantly improved their search functionality on their web site, but in the process changed the API search results. The search is now more friendly, for example searching “friends” didn’t use to return results. Now, it assumes you mistyped and returns “Friends” as the top result. The TVDB web site search results now prioritize results, maybe by popularity? This makes the web site search results much more useful. It also (finally) treats search terms as joined by an AND rather than an OR. Searching for “adam ruins” used to return all series with either the word “adam” or “ruins” in the title.

Is my understanding correct? A similarity search would place a perfect match like this: searching for “friends” would place “Friends” at the top of the search results, similarly for other one-word titles like fringe, emergence, 24, etc.

 

FBI is 5th on the list. Still slow on the results but working again!