Metadata-File.md

The main goal of the script is to allow a complete recreation of your library just from the Metadata File and to dynamically build and maintain collections.

To do that you have to specify the metadata and collections in the Metadata File, which is required per Library and is defined in the Configuration File.

The location of the Metadata File is defined by either the metadata_path attribute of the library in the Configuration File or when not specified it will look in the same directory as the YAML config file for a YAML metadata file named the same as the library.

For Example if this is your config.yml:

libraries:
  Movies:
    library_type: movie
  TV Shows:
    library_type: show
  Anime:
    library_type: show

Then along side the config.yml it would expect to find the Metadata Files:

config.yml
Movies.yml
TV Shows.yml
Anime.yml

There are three mappings allowed in the Metadata File's root:

Name	Attribute	Description
Metadata	metadata	mapping where metadata changes go
Templates	templates	mapping where templates for automatic collections go
Collections	collections	mapping where automatic collections and collection metadata go

• Either metadata or collections is required in order to run.
• You can find a template metadata file in config/Movies.yml.template