How to filter for audio_language.not: "german" ?

[gitttt54]

Hello,

I need to filter out every movie which contains an audio_language called "german".

It is important, that this is not "German" with capital G or "de" for the language code, it must be "german", like here in plex, which is working great:

Is this possible in PMM, if yes, how?

[chazlarson]

I would imagine something like:

collections:
  contain_german:
    plex_search:
      all:
        audio_language.regex: german

  collection_without_german:
    plex_search:
      all:
        collection.not: contain_german  

What have you tried, and what have the results been?

[gitttt54]

Thank you very much! I was not aware of the .regex possibilities. In my Wiki-Search, I looked here, and I experimented with

    smart_filter:
      all:
        audio_language: german # or audio_language: "german"....

but that failed.

For now, I get

| Validating Method: smart_filter                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Value: ordereddict([('all', ordereddict([('audio_language.regex', 'german')])), ('validate', False), ('sort_by', 'title.desc')])                                                                       |
| Plex Error: audio_language: No matches found with regex pattern german                                                                                                                                 |
| Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                     |
|   File "//plex_meta_manager.py", line 559, in run_collection                                                                                                                                           |
|     builder = CollectionBuilder(config, metadata, mapping_name, collection_attrs, library=library, extra=output_str)                                                                                   |
|   File "/modules/builder.py", line 573, in __init__                                                                                                                                                    |
|     self.smart_type_key, self.smart_filter_details, self.smart_url = self.build_filter("smart_filter", self.data[methods["smart_filter"]], display=True, default_sort="random")                        |
|   File "/modules/builder.py", line 1897, in build_filter                                                                                                                                               |
|     raise Failed(f"{self.Type} Error: No Filter Created")                                                                                                                                              |
| modules.util.Failed: Collection Error: No Filter Created                                                                                                                                               |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Collection Error: No Filter Created            

But I guess, thats because, I yesterday removed all movies with audio_language "german" and now pmm/plex can not find any suitable movies. I have to wait until those come again and my old plex collection shows some suitable movies, I will try again then.

Thank you!

[chazlarson]

I started on the plex builder page, for future reference:

https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/metadata/builders/plex.html#tag-searches

That regex of mine above is totally untested [by me], so might require adjustment, but if you currently have German but no german it seems like it's doing what I'd expect.