[sycdan]

This was mentioned here 2 years ago, but nothing seems to have come of it... seems like a good idea, so I'm officially making a request.

It would be great if we had the ability to define whether the scraper should use absolute numbering (or DVD, I suppose), as part of the <tvshowmatching> tags in advancedsettings.xml. This could be expanded to allow configuring *which* scraper to use, and any other scraper-related settings.

This would provide a really simple way to get around the various issues with animé filenames, among other things.

Here's an example of what I'd like to be able to do:

Code:

<tvshowmatching defaultseason="1" scraper="metadata.tvdb.com" numberingscheme="absolute|aired|dvd" action="prepend"> <!-- perhaps pick first mode with a non-blank result? -->
        <regexp>\[horriblesubs\] .+ - ()([0-9]{2,})(-[0-9]{2,})*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>

[Ned Scott]

An interesting idea. It would be useful for long-running series where one might rebuild their library while episodes are still airing.