The comparison page no longer loads some things such as “My 100% match”(I checked when I had shows that were a 100%) or individual shows when you click on the TMDB Comparison button on a show’s page.
It does this across browsers.
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I have the same problem with some shows but you can still go to the https://trakt.tv/transition/tmdb/ page and use the shows title as a filter to search for it and it will appear there.
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It appears that “some” it’s actually a lot! Have you pinpointed the issue ?
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Shows have always had to be manually imported in to Trakt. (Maybe someone else did that step for you.). See how to add a show.
If a show’s data source is TVDB, it will continue to update with TVDB data until the show or movie is migrated to TMDB.
I’m not understanding your issue then I guess.
Because since we’re switching to TMDB, we want all new shows to have TMDB as their main data source.
Check out the related blog post.
The comparison page is now loading individual shows when you click on the TMDB Comparison button on a show’s page. The 100% section is still glitchy though.
This is probably because certain parts/sections of database/website update and/or cache at different times throughout the process. The comparison pages are only updated when the show page is updated.
Ideally, there isn’t much in the 100% section as they’re being migrated regularly.
Because he’s the admin. He’s the sole admin.
Moderatos don’t have that functionality.
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Hey guys,
i’ve made a lot of updates on Family Matters - Trakt.tv on TMDB. I can’t migrated to TMDB due to the ordering of episode (i get that). I was wondering if an update of the actors on TMDB will still find its way to Trakt even if the source is still TVDB?
Yes, we only use TMDB for actor info, even if the show’s main data source is TVDB.
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I’m just wondering so I can get a sense of the wait time, but how long is backlog? Normally I wouldn’t ask but this show is even more messed up than before now I’m not sure which episodes I should be marking. It’s been almost a month since I posted about the initial problem. Did I post it in the wrong category?
It’s best to open a support ticket by clicking “Contact Support” so that it doesn’t get lost on the forums. We’re trying to clean up the public forums as they are quite a mess and are trying to steer our users to tickets. I’ll convert that post to a ticket, and get it queued.
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Awesome! Thank you! I’ll be sure to Contact Support in the future!
@Kate, are y’all any closer to fixing this show? It’s been more than a month and the seasons are still duplicated. I tried checking my support ticket, but it isn’t there anymore. Episodes that need to be deleted haven’t been. I’m sorry to harp on this, but I don’t want to mark episodes because I don’t know which season, 13 or 2021, will get deleted.
Thanks!
I’ve kept away from this topic after the initial posts and it’s gotten hell-a-long - is there an updated FAQ with specifics of all of this?
I’m certainly glad that the TMDB DB quality has improved since the initial trakt V2 mission abort but I’m still sceptical about handling the watched data to be honest. Someone mentioned specials disappearing and stuff? Not sure how 100% matches have been done for content but previously “completed” shows have been reappearing on the back end of my show progress.
Eg. Childrens Hospital - Trakt.tv this now has the 10 initial webisodes as S1 (which was previously just 5 combined episodes). Specials are still untouched and feature all the webisodes from S1…
The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water - Trakt.tv has S1 & S2 combined as the first season + separate again… duplicate content just left in on trakt (from the change history this was all already there before merging)?
Sadly changes the other way around are not that apparent.
Here is some info… Trakt Forums
@sp1ti - I think my earlier post answers most of your questions.
When you come across shows that have issues, please let us know. Also keep in mind it’s free to create an account to update listings at TMDB, and as a VIP, you’re able to “Refresh Images” to do a deeper, instant refresh on Trakt once you’ve finished.
@arcreactor Thanks but the article is why I was asking in the first place - it’s rather basic.
@Kate Ok, I scrolled past the post and did not read the remark about “many accidental” switches. Are those documented anywhere so that one could check if they’re interested?
Some questions I have:
- Could an indicator be implemented in the comparison for episode descriptions when there aren’t any? Dates and episode names are one thing but the meta data involves a lot more tbh (I know you have them “saved” but anything not matching the source is always bad)…
- Based on @ImpaktNY48 example for How It Should Have Ended Specials - Trakt.tv we’ll get zero info when the history gets axed or content is incomplete? Those events should really be dumped some place so people to have a chance to rectify this (or not have been accepted for merge in the first place).
- What is with specials in a different order? I’ve seen this plenty - will/was the meta data just set to TMDB with my history being altered to that?
- When I check out the open stuff in the queue I see plenty of content TMDb rejects - what’s the plan for those? @justin implied that he’ll just lock potentially 50k+ shows after the deadline but since it has been extended those should actually be thrown out - yes? Can they be hidden from the site like some of the blocked adult stuff? (This was already brought up multiple times and ignored to be answered every single time oO)
- Are episode IDs saved? What’s the plan for long running anime, telenovelas, etc. which were in the past always split up on TVDB due to technical limitations? Case Closed (TV Series 1996- ) — The Movie Database (TMDb) for example is a single season on TMDB - since new episodes are still coming out you can’t freeze those? Can you set those to a specific episode grouping from there (eg. Case Closed (TV Series 1996- ) - Season (TV) — The Movie Database (TMDb)) and then change the order?
- Will the TVDB IDs be kept on the site even after the API $$?
- I forgot - how is the TVMaze mapping done? Loosing the airtime will be a big hit… That site is certainly missing a lot of shows too…
As a side note: After scrolling through the history a bit I’m honestly quite shocked on how you handled the inquiry about the actual costs if you haven’t even talked to TVDB and the proposed licensing costs are only based on “hearsay”… Imho it’s quite naive to think that TMDB wouldn’t do something similar in the future too. TVDB certainly made plenty of mistakes but they were kinda crushed hard by all the tools and apps that popped up relying on their data. Still, they always offered data dumps and the majority of the content was pretty much “stolen” by TMDB (with even a TVDB scraper bot being active in the early days of their DB incarnation). Once TMDB takes the whole load I’m sure this ends up bleeding them money too (you stopped serving images in the API for exactly the same reasons). Not sure why it’s fair to pay for “justwatch” but not for the metadata provider on which the entire site is relying on? The only similar open database that comes to mind that seems to have a decent way to monetize themselves is discogs (audio) and they don’t even have the burden of serving 4K images… I obviously don’t have a solution either just my 2 cents…
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If this was Reddit I’d reward you with Platinum. I said much of the same months ago. This situation can just as easily happen with TMDB.
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