[chappers77]

Hi

I've tried searching the forums for this so sorry if I've missed anything.

I have a number of TV episodes which I can't get to add to my library.
Other files in the same folder will add OK, and if I browse to the files within XBMC they play fine so I know they are supported.

I've tried moving the files and deleting them from XBMC to re-add, but have the same issue.
I've also tried renaming the files to see if there was something wrong there, but no joy.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Matt

[Chris!]

What are they called (file name) and what show do they belong to?

[Chris!]

I see it's your first post, in case you hadn't spotted there is a wiki for XBMC.

There is a lot of info on there and problems can be solved quicker:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TV_...onventions

though if you are still having trouble reply some more to this thread.

Welcome to the forums!

[chappers77]

Thanks for the responses, I'll check out the wiki.

The episodes are all of Castle. Season 1 adds fine but 2 and 3 just don't.
I can't believe that they don't exist on the tvdb scraper site.

I've tried a number of different file names, but they are currently castle.s02.e01.mkv etc.
And each season exists in its own folder

Are there any logs I can turn on / look at to see what's happening?

Matt

[Chris!]

There is a debug log. (google should be able to tell you the wiki page)

The episodes are all of Castle. Season 1 adds fine but 2 and 3 just don't.
I can't believe that they don't exist on the tvdb scraper site.

Better believe it:
http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=82607&lid=7

However Castle (2009) has multiple seasons:
http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=83462&lid=7

Is this the castle you wanted?
If so the reason it is called castle (2009) is because a series already existed so that gets the title first.

So you will have to call your files:

Code:

castle (2009).s02.e01.mkv

[chappers77]

Thanks pseudo

After some more playing with the file names, and reading of the Wiki and this forum post, I realised that it also matters what the folder is called, so instead of having a folder called Castle with the seasons in sub folders, I have to have the folder name Castle (2009) followed by the seasons in sub folders.

Now that I have this, XBMC has picked up all the episodes and seasons properly .

Thanks for all your help with this.

Matt

[chappers77]

Hi pseudo

I could have sworn I'd posted this already, but maybe not.

Thanks for all your help with this.
After reading your posts and links I came to the revelation that the folder name is also very important.
Even though I had my files named as per your last post, it was still picking up the (no doubt exciting) wrong Castle.
After my lightbulb moment, I renamed the toll level folder from 'Castle' to 'Castle (2009)' and this worked like a charm.
So much so that the other series I hadn't got to add previously but that I wasn't particularly bothered by are now showing too

Thanks again for your help.

Matt

[Chris!]

Not a problem, glad you got there yourself (so learnt more).

Once you understand naming schemes everything is hunky dory!

Happy xbmc-ing!