I should be able to name the files: Show - b01d01t01 - episode name instead of s01e01 where b is box d is disk number, t is track number.
I should also be able to have the file be named something like this
show - b01d01t01-t02 _ s01e14 - episodename - pilot | special - tags,collections,etc, - filetypedata, -.extension
(track 01 to track 02)
If it’s in a folder structure, those folders should automatically generate collections (for movie genres or series)
Scanner will only give the series name (which i use to pass bracket tags with serie id if specified), season, episode number, ep title (and source for movies)
You could however rig it so if specifying a tvdbid, you translate that to seasons and episode number
The agent is in charge of tags so you would have to modify the agent to use the filename which is not generally the practice…
grouping in folder is supported for movies but not series (works with my scanner but brings performance caveats as it has to be refreshed on every scan). if the data is recognised by the metadata agent, the tags should be populated so i do not understand the need to explicitely have them in the title
We should be able to check how deep the folder structure is…
Also, I’m noticing that some scanners are really borked by extra files being in the folder. and some try to interpret things past the - which I would hope that it would ignore.
I’m also thinking of giving some extra big hints to the files… -name- as a divider could specify that the next info is the name of the file… Or simply include a text file in the folder that allows me to specify special rules for the series.
@AirOp: Check the scanners out there, and write you own if nothing exist. Did you try my scanner? The link is in my signature. It supports ep titles, absolute and season numbering and series grouped in subfolders…
i plan to try it soon.
I want to give my own tags, not just what thetvdb thinksbit should be. Sometimes i dont want it to use the tvdbs tags, but i’d rather have it as a default… but then i dont want to loose my custom work.
I also plan to look into the xbmc plugin because it would also be really nice to just straight up edit the database… and have it be exported properly.
I agree, I’d like to be able to export the database and edit it on my own, in some easier way.
Has anyone come up with a scanner that can pickup shows like THE DAILY SHOW - which is ignored currently because it’s only listed by air date and episode # is unknown? TVDB wants only Episode numbers.
Where is the default scanner? because the modification to make it simply take the last folder rather than the first folder should be a rather simple modification.
@ZeroQI said:
@AirOp: Check the scanners out there, and write you own if nothing exist. Did you try my scanner? The link is in my signature. It supports ep titles, absolute and season numbering and series grouped in subfolders…
Unfortunately the documentation to write a scanner is very very hard to find.
I just want to modify the standard scanner and have it get the series name from the next to last folder rather than the first one that is not part of the root.
Not so simple. Series are meant to be in the folders you specift as root in the library.
Let’s say you have an anome folder and dragon ball inside and then dragon blall, dbz. Sb gt inside. All episodes will be in dragon ball folder and you will have 3 episodes 1 sesson 1 etc…
If you add everything during the initial root call and not siubdequent series call it can work.
I did have some caching issues adding all from the root then less issues adding on root call only the grouping folders on initial root call.
check former versions of ny scanner before i removed grouping folder a month ago ot will work as expected.
the way it works now is you have to sdd grouping folders manually as root folders or it skips it. It use to manage any depth but plex couldn’t cache that way and had to scan all every time which is why i changed it in my scanner…
It should be simple…
If there is a season folder, then give it to the TVdb agent…
If it doesn’t, give it to the movie agent…
if it doesn’t get recognized by the movie agent… then do it as a personal video…
Simply pull the last folders in the tree rather than the first…
