(2015-07-06, 07:45)mlaggner Wrote: sorry for the late response
I am still working on a cleanup of the tmm code for the new scraper infrastructure; most existing scrapers have already been migrated
I know that anime is slightly different to western tv shows, but introducing a whole new "module" for anime is too much work for the benefit it gives.
Could you imagine to "emulate" an absolute numbering scheme by putting all episodes to season 0 or 1 with increasing episode numbers?
I don't know if this 'scraper infrastructure' change being mentioned is the same thing as what I'm about to suggest here, because I haven't read this thread for a while and don't have time to go through 39 pages of posts right now. However, while your statement earlier in the thread that anime TV shows fit well into the TV Shows section is
broadly true, there are a lot of series that are too obscure for sites like TVDb and RageTV to list. This leaves those of us with mixed collections with a bit of a dilemma.
As far as I understand it, I can only select
ONE scraper for each media category (Films / TV Shows) with a somewhat ambiguous message about "fallback" to other scrapers which I cannot dictate or control. I have multiple folders added under the 'TV Shows' category. Some are regular US/UK shows that TVDb and the like will handle just fine, but I also have other folders also added with anime/hentai content that certainly will not be scraped by TVDb. Either because they are hentai which TVDb flat-out doesn't support, or because they are DVD-Only releases (OVAs) Which TVDb seem to have adopted the stance that they too are not valid or wanted on the site. Or finally because they are simply too niche, too old or only had a limited release, so community members can't be bothered to post up the details. While on the one hand I can understand TVDb wish to avoid content spam, it means for those obscure shows I do have, I will have to find alternate means of scraping them if I have any hope of adding them to the library, or simply have a 'junk' folder in Kodi of items that can't therefore be part of that library. At least not without a lot of manual hacking / editing of NFOs and the like.
In the case of TMM, I'm forced to make a choice between a scraper like TVDb
OR AniDb for all shows in that category, even though they exist in separate folders. The same applies for film content to a lesser degree. What I'd like to see, is scraper selection based on a 'per-folder' methodology, like Kodi does internally, rather than a 'per-category' setup as is currently the case. Then I would be able to customize the scrapers I wish to use for that specific content, segregated by the folders I've placed that content in. Also, in-line with your thinking, that would then negate the need for separate categories just for anime. TVDb won't scrape quite a few of my older OVAs or the few hentai series I have, but switching the scraper to AniDb or some other anime scraper will mean I can't then scrape my regular shows without having to constantly change the scraper several times each run.
If this is what's already coming down the pipe, forgive me for not reading the whole thread to find out. But IMHO this limitation has bugged me since TMM first came out, back in the day. One, if not the
ONLY complaint I have about how TMM works.
