Is Certification no longer valid? (using TheTVDB)

[vballrican]

Hi, i haven't had issues in a while until now. I'm on the latest FileBot and when i try to rename series files, the certification (PG, PG-13, etc) is not being parsed into the folder names as i have it. How can i fix it?

This is what i have:

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/Processed/{n} [{certification}, {genre}, {y}]/{'Season ' +s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t.replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replacePart(', Part $1')} ({megabytes}MB)({minutes}Min)({airdate.format("MM-dd-yyyy")})

Thanks.

[rednoah]

Which database are you using? Which series are you testing with?


{certification} is confirmed to work at this point in time on the current release for Firefly {tmdb-1437} and yield TV-14 in that test case.

[vballrican]

The TVDB and i have tried 5 different series...
A Galaxy Next Door [, Animation, 2023]
Am I Actually the Strongest [, Animation, 2023]
BNA [, Animation, 2020]
Chainsaw Man [, Animation, 2022]

etc

Can you please try an anime series? doesn't work for me.

[rednoah]

{certification} fundamentally works if the information is available. Tested with Firefly {tvdb-78874}.


Chainsaw Man {tvdb-397934} indeed does not work. Maybe this piece of information hasn't been entered yet, or is no longer supported, at least it's not visible nor editable on the website:
https://thetvdb.com/series/chainsaw-man


If you need {certification} to work reliably (or at least allow you to add the missing information if need be) then you will need to switch to TMDB.

[vballrican]

Ok. thanks. I tried with TVDB, TMDB, ANIdb, and TVMaze... none of the 5 shows got {certification} information..

myanimelist shows rating for all these shows.. don't know why the DBs are missing it..

[rednoah]

I now see the issue. I doesn't work for shows where the certification is not available in the origin country, as {certification} will give you the certification from the origin country, which is not necessarily the US.


You can access the US certification explicitly like so:

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{ info.certifications.US }

[vballrican]

Ok. but this used to work with no issues.. been using it since i got FileBot.

I just changed that setting and still not getting any certification... i do see an error on the top of the edit format page:
Binding "media": Failed to read media info: Binding "file": undefined

[rednoah]

Are you testing with TheTVDB or TMDB now?


Use { info.certifications } to check country codes for your selected database. TVDB notably does not use standard country codes. The US snippet above is only tested for TMDB.


Binding "media": Failed to read media info: Binding "file": undefined means that you are testing a format that requires a file but you haven't yet setup a sample file for testing. If you test a format uses MediaInfo Bindings then you need a sample file for testing, otherwise bindings like {minutes} have nothing to work with. This is unrelated to the topic at hand.




EDIT:

If you're using TheTVDB then you need to adjust the format according to country codes uses by TheTVDB:

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{ info.certifications.usa }

** Chainsaw Man {tvdb-397934} yields TV-MA in this case




EDIT 2:

FileBot r10159 makes changes to {certification} to prefer the content rating from (1) the preferred locale or (2) USA locale by default or (3) any origin country locale as a last resort.

[vballrican]

Awesome! Thanks a lot for the response.. So i can just ignore the bindings thing right?

I will change the certification from .US to .usa and try again. and yes, i like using TVDB because it adds genre as opposed to the generic 'animation' added by TMDB. Thanks!

[vballrican]

That worked!! One last thing, after i rename, it says something about adding attributes... it goes away so it's hard to see.. what is that and can i just ignore it?

[rednoah]

After renaming files, FileBot does a couple of things, one of which is storing xattr metadata for future reference. If any of these post-processing tasks take a while (normal if files are on a remote network drive) then a progress dialog will pop up until the task is complete.


Please read Metadata and Extended Attributes for details.

[vballrican]

Great! Thank a lot! Hope you are well.