[jdelliott]

I tried searching, but either I'm not using the right terms or this hasn't been asked (although I'm sure it has)

Currently I have a structure that looks like this:

TV Shows
     MASH
     Friends
     Umbrella Academy
     Family Guy
     Simpsons
     WKRP in Cincinnati

etc - each file is named with Showname - S??E?? - Title, with no separate Season Folders, all files in the Show folder

I am wondering if this will work

TV Shows
     Finished
          Friends
          MASH
          WKRP in Cincinnati
     On Air
          Family Guy
          Umbrella Academy
          Simpsons

That way I can separate the TV Shows that are no longer in production, and therefore don't ever need to have metadata updated, etc, from those that are still being produced. Goal is to have just the one entry in Kodi sources, for the TV Shows root folder

Will Kodi go "through" the empty, other than the subfolders, Finished and On Air folders, as it were, since it doesn't see any media files in that level?

Thanks for you time

[Karellen]

I am wondering if this will work

TV Shows
     Finished
          Friends
          MASH
          WKRP in Cincinnati
     On Air
          Family Guy
          Umbrella Academy
          Simpsons

Nope, that won't work. If you set "TV Shows" as the Source, it will try to scrape "Finished" and "On Air" as the two tv shows. Then it will think "Friends", "Mash" etc are the season folders.

You will need to have two Sources - "Finished" and "On Air"

Then in the Finished Source, once it is scanned into the library, enable the setting "Exclude path from library updates" in the Source Set Content screen.

[jdelliott]

I am wondering if this will work

TV Shows
     Finished
          Friends
          MASH
          WKRP in Cincinnati
     On Air
          Family Guy
          Umbrella Academy
          Simpsons

Nope, that won't work. If you set "TV Shows" as the Source, it will try to scrape "Finished" and "On Air" as the two tv shows. Then it will think "Friends", "Mash" etc are the season folders.

You will need to have two Sources - "Finished" and "On Air"

Then in the Finished Source, once it is scanned into the library, enable the setting "Exclude path from library updates" in the Source Set Content screen.

Thanks for your reply. I was afraid of that. I'm using Ember to scrape everything, prior to doing a library update in Kodi.

[DarrenHill]

Actually it can be made to work. The key point is the level where the "this folder contains a single TV show" flag is set.

By default, that flag is set one level below the root of the source. So that would be the scenario Karellen refers to above, with the scraper looking to "finished" and "on air" as shows.

But what you can do is set the source up, but do not set its content to TV shows (leave it as none). Then go in via the videos > files menu and set the content of "finished" and "on air" to be TV shows, and then scrape. That will set the flag correctly and everything should work.

I have a similar set up as part of my library, where I divide shows into sub-categories as I mainly use file view rather than library view for my daily use. Note though that if you use library view you will still see everything together in one TV shows library. If you do want them separate there too, then you need to use video nodes (wiki) or smart playlists (wiki).