[whoknowsit]

Hello guys,

I am using the ember media manager for the first time now. May you please help me with a bit advice here?

I have a lot of series. The structure is as shown:

HDD G:

Series I

Burn Notice (de, eng) (2007 - )
--------(De)
-------------S01
-------------S02
--------(Eng)
-------------S01
-------------S02
-------------S03

King of Queens (de, eng) (complete) (2003 - 2009)
--------(De, Eng)
-------------S01
-------------S02
------------- ....


First folder is the HDD, then "Series I". In Series I are all the Series, with name of the Series, then written in bracelets the languages (De = German, Eng = Englisch). The next subfolder is then the Language folder and in this are the seasons.

When I have a dual language Series, then it is stored in (De, Eng).


Here is the thing now:

How can I let ember media manger automatically discover that it is one series in different languages? At the moment it is searching and saying (de) is a own series and not a language of the for example Burn Notice series.


Do you have any ideas what can I do better?

Even if it is recognizing it, the problem is, that in XMBC it is shown as one series and all the different language episoded are double... How can I solve my problem?


thank you so much

[Monk]

I had a similar issue. The only solutions for me currently was to change my dir structure and do a 2-pass scan. New dir structure is:

Series_DE
---Burn Notice (2007 - )
----------S01
----------S02
---....
----------S01

Series_EN
---Burn Notice (2007 - )
----------S01
----------S02
----------S03
---....
----------S01

In the second scan, I change the source paths and switch to English as language.

[whoknowsit]

Thank you so much for your answer and great that somebody is sharing the same problem.

Can you please tell me how I can change the language? I am really new to this software.

If the language is changed, can this be seen in the xbmc?

[Monk]

You can change the language in "Settings -> TV Series -> Scraper -> Preferred Language". As for xbmc I cannot tell you since I do not use it.

[whoknowsit]

Thank you monk .

May I ask which one you use instead? Because we have nearly the same problem here, are you using the "Media Portal", or just a player?

[Monk]

I'm using a Xtreamer Sidewinder Player.
Although I have a NAS running on Linux, two Raspberry PIs, I still like the simple "power on and play movie" approach. Maybe when I have some time to spare I go for a HTPC with xmbc

[whoknowsit]

Ok, I like the idea too.

Thank you for your time and help!

[grumbler]

In the second scan, I change the source paths and switch to English as language.

I have the same problem with the same solution

Only difference:
I use 2 seperate Ember-Installations. One is configured with the first directory as source to scrape in english, one is configured with the second directory as source to scrape in german.

If I scrape an english series for the first time then I add "(OT)" to the name of the series in the edit window (OT = Originalton = original audio).

After an update in XBMC there appear two entries for the series because they now have "different" names If you dont do this I think XBMC will merge both versions under one entry and you will have each episode
twice in the episode view.