Use MovingPictures' filter options to set what movies to refresh info for

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I have some FanEdits in my collection that requires me to input the information 
manually. I'd love to exclude them from a batch update of movie info using 
IMDb+ by just selecting the genre "FanEdit" that I've added to these movies so 
that everything get the refreshed info but them.

Then I thought, I can't be alone in wanting something like this? Just updating 
Sci-Fi movies by selecting the genre or just HD films etc.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dj_empha...@hotmail.com on 5 Dec 2011 at 10:07

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So those fanedits have an IMDb tt-ID reference then?

Because "Force IMDb+" only converts movies having such an ID over, and the 
scraper-script would abort on any movie lacking one that gets refreshed using 
it.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 12:20

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Yes, they use the original movie's tt-ID to get fanart, actors etc.

Original comment by dj_empha...@hotmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 5:37

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But don't you edit the movies after they are imported already?

Meaning IMDb+ gets the details, the cover and TheMovieDb scraper gets the 
fanart.

Then you manually edit the movie, to reflect it is a fanedit, which I assume 
means adjusting summary, possibly title and other aspects.

Well all you have to do then is empty out the imdb.site_id and imdb.imdb_id 
fields in the database and the IMDb+ scraper will not touch anything on a 
refresh.

Anyway, the above would be a workaround for what is possible now. It does not 
sound impossible to add an extra refresh menu option that will refresh all 
movies *except* the ones that match certain rules.

Do you perhaps add "(Fan Edit)" to the titles for these? or any other 
modifications? Or can you only recognize them based on the custom category you 
make in MovPic? Reason I ask is because it would be much easier to filter out 
movies from a refresh that have a certain tag to their title then to duplicate 
the whole MovingPictures category filter system into IMDb+. The more info you 
can give on how these FanEdits work for you, the easier it will be to figure 
out an easy fix.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2011 at 6:07

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Yeah, I can remove the tt-ID from the FanEdits as a workaround for now. I'd 
still love to have the filter option for bulk refreshing of movies though as 
it's pretty time consuming work to add 'em in. Too bad the FanEdit.org site 
doesn't have an API that could be added to the IMDB+ scraper. :)

All FanEdits have custom titles, like both of the movies "Matrix Reloaded" and 
"Matrix Revolutions" combined into the fanedit "Matrix Revolutions: The Epic 
Edition". http://fanedit.org/13852/

Adding the genre "FanEdit" to MovingPictures allows me to quickly browse them 
at will, which of course is great.

Original comment by dj_empha...@hotmail.com on 17 Dec 2011 at 9:03

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We could add Genre selection to refresh menu similar to how we got the A-Z. 
This can atleast help you filter out certain genres.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 6:25

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That would work, here I was thinking of adding a configurable option based 
exclusion system, but it make sense to duplicate the A-Z system and use Genres 
instead.

It does require a user to multi-select a bunch of genres, but they can also use 
that to their advantage on large collections, and still skip "FanEdit" or alike 
genre they want to avoid getting refreshed.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 6:39

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I'm gonna make a backup of my Movingpictures.dat and see what happens now if I 
do a major update and report back. 

Original comment by dj_empha...@hotmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 8:27