[klendool]

Hi All

My video library and workflow predates kodi by, well, quite a few years. I have noticed an issue that perhaps might be my fault and the answer will be "don't do that" - but just in case there is a work around I thought I'd ask.

If I obtain say Season 1 of a show, and its on my hard drive, and later I might obtain Season 2 of that same show. I put it in a different directory, because its not yet watched, its just easier for me to organize my video like that.

I have

/data/Video/Tv/<TV Show Name>/Season <number>/<Episode>

for shows I have watched and

/data/Unwatched/Tv/<TV Show Name>/Season <number>/<Episode>

for shows I have not (or in progress)

They both seem to scan fine, I get the synopsis showing in the UI for the episodes and the name is changed from the file system name to the scanned name, BUT the cover art does not show for the show in the Unwatched directories but it does in the Video directories.

Note that this ONLY happens for duplicated shows. If I rip a new show I've never watched, and all the files are in Unwatched, it scans fine and the art shows.

Any ideas about how I may solve this?

Jake

[Karellen]

They both seem to scan fine

When they scan do you have a single listing for the show in the library, or do you have two listings?

BUT the cover art does not show for the show in the Unwatched directories

Do you have a poster.jpg file in that directory?

[klendool]

OOH I may have left out a vital bit of information - I don't browse the library, I browse the filesystem.

If I browse the library, everything works as expected, despite one tv show being stored in 2 different locations.

If this is a bug, its an edge case for sure.
I do not have a poster.jpg in either directory

[Karellen]

I do not have a poster.jpg in either directory

Ok. You are relying on the scraper to provide the artwork.
What you are doing is ok, and is known as Split Folders... https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_file...ow_Folders
The problem is that Kodi only sees the first folder as the main tv show folder, so it is able to grab the scraped poster and display it.
It can't do that for the second folder. But if you add a poster.jpg file to the second folder, it will be displayed.

[klendool]

hmm thanks - I'll try the poster.jpg thing.

Or, I could just use the library browser....