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2011-09-19, 05:51
(This post was last modified: 2011-09-19, 05:54 by THRobinson.)
In my XBMC I scrape using TVDB, which works really well.
I noticed on their site, when you bring up a series you can display in order of aired, or dvd order, maybe a few others...
Be nice if that was an option in XBMC as well.
For example, Undeclared... haven't seen it in years, watched it and it played in what was apparently the defaulted aired order, but wow did it make no sense at all. Checked TVDB and files are fine, which is when I discovered the alternate sorts and DVD order was way way different. Few other shows are the same, like Firefly (though not as bad).
I use TheRenamer which also scrapes TVDB and rename my files so that XBMC scrapes it hassle free but... for a few shows wishing I didn't.
Anyway, just a thought... if when it scrapes it picks up alternate sort orders as well because personally I'd rather watch in DVD release order since likely that was the order they intended it to be watched in anyway.
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Awesome... will give it a try. A few shows really make no sense based on the default sort.
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Hmm, not seeing any changes....
I clicked on the folder for "Undeclared" and set the content to nothing, then cleaned the library, went back and set content to TV Shows using TVDB and in setting found the DVD Order option, clicked ok, scanned for new content, and still showing in the same incorrect order. Only change was that now oddly my subfolder (season 1, specials) art is missing.
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Actually, got another question...
I used TheRenamer to scrape the titles from TVDB and rename the files so that XBMC will scrape trouble free.
When I changed it to DVD Sort, the order changes, but... when I hit play, it doesn't play the right file... it displays DVD order but plays the original order. I'm assuming because of the files being named based on the default order but, doesn't the DVD sort take that into consideration? Do I now have to not only setup the sort by DVD, but go through and rename all the files as well?
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Bumping... looking to see what needs done before I go renaming a bunch of files. :S
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Pretty much. If you had TheRenamer rename your files using the air date even though they were in DVD order than of course the names will be wrong. You're going to have to rename them according to the DVD order for XBMC to dislay them properly. You shouldn't have to re-add them to the library though.
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Bummer... I read that older versions of TheRenamer allowed for renaming by DVD order though glitchy... still... shame XBMC didn't have a way to scrape and download the alternate sorts and just know how to rearrange them on it's own.
Luckily, only a few shows that NEED to be sorted by DVD order. Again, watched Undeclared and timeline made 0 sense. Firefly wasn't as bad but definitely needed a few rearranged.
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You can set the scrapper to pull DVD ordering or absolute
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I would also like this option. Although you can use the scraper to choose a different sort method it means that you have to change the renaming of all of those files. It also means that if for example if you have a mutli-user setup that if one person has been watching a show in aired order and the other would like to watch it in DVD order it isn't possible. Also with addons like Trakt issues could (currently i cant get trakt to work with absolute order) arrise.
Whereas if it is just a change in how the files are displayed and no change to the database trakt and a multiuser setup would not run into the above problems.