Recent TV episodes won't play on Network devices because of .nfo?
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I have my HTPC as my xbmc server with MySql connected to ATV2 and Android xbmc and it was running great with watch status and all of shows downloaded and updated just fine...

But then over the weekend and still now, a bunch of episodes and newer episodes added to the HTPC won't play on the other 2 networked devices. I can however play them just fine on the HTPC itself with xbmc.

All 3 devices use the shared SMB folders for media and was working fine. But now about 1/2 or my episodes for shows and newer downloaded episodes won't play on the 2 network devices. But I can see them in their libraries but they give me an error saying last few videos haven't played...

I have rescanned all 3 libraries deleted and re-added all 3 and even dropped the mysql libraries and re-added them again and still half of episodes won't play! And yes I do have the correct advancedsettings.xml in all 3, like I said they all worked great for a couple weeks!



The weird thing that I see on the episodes that don't play on the other networked devices, is the .nfo files are different than the working ones...

How can I mass delete and rescrape the .nfo for that many episodes? And is that my actual problem, why now does it not work?


PS I do use sickbeard for normal everyday scraping and organizing my torrents and it always works...
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Example of the working .nfo:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<episodedetails>
<title>And the Hidden Stash</title>
<showtitle>2 Broke Girls</showtitle>
<rating>7.600000</rating>
<epbookmark>0.000000</epbookmark>
<year>0</year>
<top250>0</top250>
<season>2</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<uniqueid></uniqueid>
<displayseason>-1</displayseason>
<displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
<votes></votes>
<outline></outline>
<plot>Max joins Caroline on her visit to a white collar prison to see her father, Martin Channing, and he encourages them to purchase a particular keepsake at the Channing estate auction.</plot>
<tagline></tagline>
<runtime>21</runtime>



Example of the bad .nfo:

<episodedetails xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<title>And the Bear Truth</title>
<season>2</season>
<episode>13</episode>
<aired>2013-01-14</aired>
<plot>A relaxing getaway for two becomes an awkward vacation for three when Max, Caroline and Andy spend a weekend together in a cabin in the woods.</plot>
<displayseason />
<displayepisode />
<thumb>http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/248741/4453191.jpg</thumb>
<watched>false</watched>
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