cleverest Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I don't want to download metadata for everything, even if I uncheck it all...I have over 50k....is there a way to just have it update the community metadata only for my entire library? Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Nevermind, I just did it for the entire collection, choosing to uncheck everything and answered NO to the final question of replacing metadata....I'll see if that breaks anything, I hope not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 That did nothing...I should have checked to update metadata on missing fields lol...silly me. Do I also need to have it checked at the start to also 'search Launchbox' database for game info? I'd prefer not to, as I have some fixed/custom written stuff I don't want overwritten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 52 minutes ago, cleverest said: That did nothing...I should have checked to update metadata on missing fields lol...silly me. Do I also need to have it checked at the start to also 'search Launchbox' database for game info? I'd prefer not to, as I have some fixed/custom written stuff I don't want overwritten. Yes, you'll need to check that box to search the LaunchBox Games Database. Otherwise it won't do anything with the metadata at all. I did fix the bug where titles were being overwritten incorrectly on new game matches though, so nothing should be overwritten at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Would be nice to have a dedicated button to download and upload community star ratings 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Just now, Lordmonkus said: Would be nice to have a dedicated button to download and upload community star ratings Absolutely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Wow so that explains a lot...I was getting a few community ratings, but after awhile I wasn't getting as many as I thought I would. But sure enough, I'm downloading metadata on a few games to try it out, and now they have ratings, so I'll have to do all games. I'd assumed being connected to the database within LB would be enough. How can you make sure your votes are being uploaded? Will syncing to the games database also accomplish this? BTW...I have to wonder who is doing the ratings...taste is subjective of course but I mean seriously. A rating of 3.17 out of 5 for frikking Gate of Thunder on Turbografx CD? That be some serious hatin'! Game's awesome and everyone knows it! C'mon, man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 42 minutes ago, usuallee76 said: How can you make sure your votes are being uploaded? They just upload automatically as long as you have that option enabled in Tools > Options > Search, I believe it's on by default and I am not sure how often it uploads. 45 minutes ago, usuallee76 said: BTW...I have to wonder who is doing the ratings...taste is subjective of course but I mean seriously. A rating of 3.17 out of 5 for frikking Gate of Thunder on Turbografx CD? That be some serious hatin'! Game's awesome and everyone knows it! C'mon, man. I'm fairly certain now that the bug where a game with no rating was counted as a 0 star rating bringing the overall rating down has been fixed is just people who have clicked on a star or two and not even noticed it or know it's done. I know when I went through some of my games to rate them I had a bunch that were rated 1 or 2 stars and of course I re-adjusted them to what I really rate them as. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Haha thank you, went on a bit of a rant there I guess. I think you're right as it wasn't just that game, a lot of games seemed to have a lower rating than common sense would indicate. But yeah it's still really early days so it'll get more and more accurate the more votes that are recorded. So metadata has to be redownloaded in order to get the ratings then I guess, hence the desire for dedicated buttons? Really cool feature, that's for sure. I just noticed as well that if you sort by star ratings, it will use your own star rating, unless you haven't rated a game in which case it will use the community rating, which is pretty awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Re-downloading the star rating metadata isn't difficult or long to do but it is certainly way more steps than it should be and it's kind of hidden away. Check this short tutorial on how to do it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 14 hours ago, usuallee76 said: Wow so that explains a lot...I was getting a few community ratings, but after awhile I wasn't getting as many as I thought I would. But sure enough, I'm downloading metadata on a few games to try it out, and now they have ratings, so I'll have to do all games. I'd assumed being connected to the database within LB would be enough. How can you make sure your votes are being uploaded? Will syncing to the games database also accomplish this? BTW...I have to wonder who is doing the ratings...taste is subjective of course but I mean seriously. A rating of 3.17 out of 5 for frikking Gate of Thunder on Turbografx CD? That be some serious hatin'! Game's awesome and everyone knows it! C'mon, man. I agree, some really shitty video game tastes rating some of these games...Must be an overwhelming amount of Gen X'ers doing the ratings...sad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 1 hour ago, cleverest said: Must be an overwhelming amount of Gen X'ers doing the ratings...sad.... A true sign you are getting old, when you start blaming the "youngin's" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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