(2020-02-25, 03:10)Glorious1 Wrote: (2020-02-17, 23:35)Kodeine Wrote: No TV series metadata found
. . . When aimed it at my NAS TV folder it failed to find any metadata at all for 125 out of 127 folders/series. I don't know what I could be doing wrong, or indeed if I am doing anything wrong, as an earlier post above also described some difficulty in getting information, and this was said to be a problem with the TVDB site.
. . . As an example, if I choose one folder, called "Wolf Hall" [a well known and quite recent BBC TV series] and click " fetch metadata" it gives me a message that "no TV series were found, try again with fewer keywords or an alternative title." When I try the manual search page with "search the web" menu item as the only choice, it comes back with "The TV series "Wolf Hall" could not be found." . . .
@Kodeine, I did a manual search for 'Wolf Hall' and it came up no problem. Maybe, as you suggest, TVDB was down. If you are still unable to get it, perhaps there is something wrong with your network or installation.
OK, so I discovered a couple of things.
Firstly if I searched more than one folder containing a different TV show at a time it returned "not found" for all of them. If I searched a single folder for a single show it then comes back with a query list of several alternative titles ; once you choose the appropriate one it will search and find the data. If there are two different folders it does not give you the alternatives/query menu, it simply says both are "not found"
So Lesson 1: do one show at a time!
Secondly, I had to rename/number the shows before searching. So a folder containing six shows marked Season 1 Episode 1 didn't return anything. If I pre- renamed them S01E01 etc then usually it found them. You probably need to do renumbering/renaming before you search for metadata if it is at all different from the convention SxxExx. This takes quite a lot of preparation if you have a hundred downloaded shows each of which has 8 to 23 episodes all numbered in random ways!
So Lesson 2 : Learn batch renaming techniques/scripts and rename your files before searching for metadata!
Thirdly, (this is obvious and results from my lack of careful reading first) it is not only movies that need to be in their own folder. Tv shows need to be in a folder with the title, and in a subfolder titled with the season number. Single files won't be recognised. I'm a bit puzzled why there is an automation for placing movies in their own folder but not TV programs. I initially took this to mean it wasn't necessary for TV programs, but it is, even though the app doesn't let you do this automatically.
So Lesson 3: All Tv series, and individual programmes must go in separate folders before searching!
Once you do these things it works like a charm! My over optimistic idea that I could load 120 TV series in and leave them to be renamed and renumbered , and metadata searched wasn't quite realisable, as you basically have to do a ton of renumbering and folder reorganisation first, and basically do one show at a time. But it is still a really handy app, and I am slowly working through my series!
I hope this is helpful to others like me just starting to use the app.
