id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 12277 Metadata collection always fails for Manual Record rules Steve Erlenborn Peter Bennett "My recording rules are all set up manually. Even though I configured mythTv to automatically download artwork for my recordings, it never worked. I read the Wiki page ""Enhancing Recordings with Metadata Lookup"" to look for hints. Next, I experimented with running 'mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all-rules'. In the output from that operation, I found the following pattern repeating. ''2014-09-06 00:48:14.817623 I Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -N Orphan Black (Manual Record) 2014-04-18 19:00:00 2014-09-06 00:48:15.124764 I Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -M Orphan Black (Manual Record) 2014-09-06 00:48:15.426320 I Metadata Lookup Failed: No Results Orphan Black (Manual Record) 0 0'' I noticed that the title string being passed to the utility included ""(Manual Record)"", so I tried running the same command, by hand, with and without that suffix. ''/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -M ""Orphan Black (Manual Record)"" /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -M ""Orphan Black"" en Orphan Black 260315 ...'' This version without "" (Manual Record)"" was able to retrieve metadata. In the code, I found that programinfo.cpp adds that string : {{{ 926 description = title = 927 QString(""%1 (%2)"").arg(title).arg(QObject::tr(""Manual Record"")); }}} I've implemented a fix, in the attached patch, where I strip out the interfering string in two methods in metadatagrabber.cpp. After doing so, automatic collection of metadata is now working for me, at least when the title is unique. " Patch - Bug Fix closed minor unknown MythTV - Scheduling 0.27-fixes medium fixed metadata manual record 0