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Multi Espisode naming help - DarkDan72 - 2021-10-08

Hello, all

I love kodi and have recently upgraded to V19.1. This is the first issue I've run into that I haven't been able to solve be reading the extensive wiki's available. I feel strongly that I am doing it correctly as per the naming conventions in the wiki, and I have tried every naming convention as well as others suggested on other forums, all with unsatisfactory results.

I am trying to add "Long Way Round Special Edition (2004)" as a TV Show.  The set consists of 3 DVDs that contain all the individual episodes as well as bonus features. The 3 DVDs are hosted on my NAS as 3 ISO files. I have the first 2 disks working correctly but the last disk has a problem because of it's content of mixed seasons.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/126030-long-way-round-special-edition

DVD3 contains the last two episodes of the regular season (S01E09 and S01E10) as well as eleven bonus segments (S00E01 through S00E11). It seems to be the mix of Season 0 and Season 1 that's confusing things.

I have tried many variations, but I believe this filename should work:

Long Way Round Special Edition (2004) S01E09-S01E10-S00E01-S00E02-S00E03-S00E04-S00E05-S00E06-S00E07-S00E08-S00E09-S00E10-S00E11.iso

In this case, both kodi and MediElch 2.8.12 interpret this file as containing Season 1 Episodes 1 through 11, with duplicates of Episodes 9 and 10. No Season 0. If I rearrange the filename so that the Season 0 episodes are listed first, followed by the two Season 1 episodes, I get Season 0 Episodes 1 through 11, with duplicates of 9 and 10. In other words, it seems to find the first S## in the filename, and disregards all others.

I know most problems of this sort are caused by me doing something wrong, but I don't see where it is. I do have multi-episode naming working as expected elsewhere, but the ISO doesn't span a Season like this one does. The problem can be demonstrated with a much simpler filename such as Long Way Round Special Edition (2004) S01E01-S02E02.ISO which results in both episodes being captured as being in the same season.

Please note that I say "captured" because whether I scrape the filename in kodi, scrape it in MediaElch, or manually edit the NFO file and refresh, kodi is interpreting that ISO file as being from a single season.

Any ideas, or is splitting the ISO into episodic segments (yuck) the only answer?

Thank you!

RE: Multi Espisode naming help - Karellen - 2021-10-08

(2021-10-08, 19:10)DarkDan72 Wrote: Long Way Round Special Edition (2004) S01E09-S01E10-S00E01-S00E02-S00E03-S00E04-S00E05-S00E06-S00E07-S00E08-S00E09-S00E10-S00E11.iso
Not sure why it doesn't like the hyphens, but when I removed the hyphens, it scraped correctly...

S01E09S01E10S00E01S00E02S00E03S00E04S00E05S00E06S00E07S00E08S00E09S00E10S00E11.iso

xml:
2021-10-09 06:19:02.499 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new item to tvshows:C:\Kodi\Test- TV Shows\Long Way Round Special Edition (2004)\

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Scanning dir 'C:\Kodi\Test- TV Shows\Long Way Round Special Edition (2004)\' as not in the database

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Found episode match C:\Kodi\Test- TV Shows\Long Way Round Special Edition (2004)\S01E09S01E10S00E01S00E02S00E03S00E04S00E05S00E06S00E07S00E08S00E09S00E10S00E11.avi (s1e9) [s([0-9]+)[ ._x-]*e([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)([^\\/]*)$]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 1, multipart episode 10 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 1 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 2 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 3 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 4 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 5 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 6 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 7 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 8 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 9 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 10 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]

2021-10-09 06:19:02.511 T:13332   DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new season 0, multipart episode 11 [^[-_ex]+([0-9]+(?Sad?:[a-i]|\.[1-9])(?![0-9]))?)]


RE: Multi Espisode naming help - DarkDan72 - 2021-10-09

(2021-10-08, 19:10)DarkDan72 Wrote: Long Way Round Special Edition (2004) S01E09-S01E10-S00E01-S00E02-S00E03-S00E04-S00E05-S00E06-S00E07-S00E08-S00E09-S00E10-S00E11.iso
(2021-10-08, 21:21)Karellen Wrote: Not sure why it doesn't like the hyphens, but when I removed the hyphens, it scraped correctly...

S01E09S01E10S00E01S00E02S00E03S00E04S00E05S00E06S00E07S00E08S00E09S00E10S00E11.iso

Excellent! Quite right...Kodi takes it like that and scrapes it fine. Funny...I thought I actually started without hyphens because that's what I've done in the past, and when that didn't work I tried all the other combinations I saw in the wiki.

Is it possible some of the other conventions no longer work? Hyphens, SxEE, etc?

Anyways thank you for the quick reply and for solving my issue.

An interesting note is that MediaElch doesn't like that filename AT ALL...it recognizes no episodes without the hyphens, etc. But that's another problem for another forum.

Thank you again.