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God, I want to find an alternative to UMS.

ERROR 23:34:10.976 [GuiManager Memory Usage Updater] Database error on getting memory cache size
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLNonTransientConnectionException: The database has been closed [90098-232]
at org.h2.message.DbException.getJdbcSQLException(DbException ...

This might be more appropriate to the illegal character issues:

DEBUG 2024-10-08 00:44:15.103 [main] Added file watch at /mnt/Torrents/Video/N/Nurarihyon no Mago: /mnt/Torrents/Video/**
DEBUG 2024-10-08 00:44:47.560 [Media Scanner] Scanning folder: Nurarihyon no Mago
INFO 2024-10-08 00:45:09.952 ...

Sure, I think... my .conf/UMS/debug.log has things like this...

DEBUG 2024-10-08 00:46:58.948 [Lookup Metadata background worker 17] API status was 404 for {"error":"Metadata not found."}
, https://api.universalmediaserver.com/api/media/video/v2?title=Perry.Mason.717.The.Bountiful.Beauty.%28Tvrip ...

Why do I get a lot of these sorts of things:

INFO 21:44:49.888 [Lookup Metadata background worker 15] Exception in thread "Lookup Metadata background worker 15" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in query at index 64: /api/media/video/v2?title=Nurarihyon+no+Mago&season=1&episode ...

Adding "language = en-US" to the configuration file seems to fix it (at least it gets rid of the metadata workers throwing the exception I posted; sorting still isn't working at all.)

When you go through the web configuration interface it doesn't save important elements (such as language or sorting ...

I trying to run UMS 14.0.2 and trying to get sorting working. It doesn't. The renders just seem to display everything in random order.

The biggest indicator I'm seeing of a problem is TONS of this:

INFO 00:49:10.835 [Lookup Metadata background worker 670] Exception in thread "Lookup Metadata ...

Oh, yeah... subtitles NEVER work for me. Add that to the list.

Here's my renderer's config file:

Samsung-UN55D6000.conf

It has Support lines:
# Supported video formats:
Supported = f:avi|divx v:divx|h264|mp4|mjpeg a:mp3|ac3|lpcm|adpcm|dts m:video/avi
Supported = f:mkv v:divx|h264|mp4|mjpeg a:mp3|ac3|eac3|lpcm|adpcm|dts m:video/avi
Supported = f:wmv v:divx ...

Bah, transcoding seems to work fine now. But it transcodes EVERYTHING. even things that clearly don't need it. I hate this.

Well, with no logs how can we help?

You can't. My experience is that even with log files the help I got was useless. The original poster is quite correct. UMS is an absolute nightmare to configure. Here's a list of the things I hate in no particular order of hatred...

There's two places for data ...