2012-12-12, 01:32
I was having a problem with my TV shows appearing and wanted to share the fix; although I don't know if this problem is caused by XBMC, Artwork Downloader or even a third-party program.
I had a strange situation where two or three TV shows would scrape artwork just fine, but the rest would return an error saying 'id not found' or something similar. I realised that there must have been something on my end preventing it working, so I checked all the nfo files of the TV Shows and noticed that the ones that did scrape fine had the <id> tag. The ones that didn't had a <tvdbid> tag. These nfo files were created by a program called 'TVrename', which I have been using for years.
The quickest fix I found was to delete the nfo files, let another program such as SickBeard recreate them and then finally reimport into XBMC. Then your shows should scrape just fine.
Now is this due to
1) XBMC not finding the ID and importing it to the database or
2) Artwork Downloader not finding the <tvdbid> tag?
tldr;
If your TV shows aren't scraping properly make sure they have a valid <id> tag inside the nfo file.
I had a strange situation where two or three TV shows would scrape artwork just fine, but the rest would return an error saying 'id not found' or something similar. I realised that there must have been something on my end preventing it working, so I checked all the nfo files of the TV Shows and noticed that the ones that did scrape fine had the <id> tag. The ones that didn't had a <tvdbid> tag. These nfo files were created by a program called 'TVrename', which I have been using for years.
The quickest fix I found was to delete the nfo files, let another program such as SickBeard recreate them and then finally reimport into XBMC. Then your shows should scrape just fine.
Now is this due to
1) XBMC not finding the ID and importing it to the database or
2) Artwork Downloader not finding the <tvdbid> tag?
tldr;
If your TV shows aren't scraping properly make sure they have a valid <id> tag inside the nfo file.