2014-03-11, 09:58
I managed to get TV Renamer to run by adding the folder of every show from the TV Shows folder - tedious - and I edited each one it didn't automatically identify, so everything looked fine. I went through a scan of each one and it found everything that was there, and I saw an immediate improvement in XBMC when I started it up and added each folder for the first time (after a fresh install). Still, however, it's got missing episodes everywhere. It only recognises season 6 of Futurama despite my going through each one in TV Renamer, and it says Sharpe has no episodes at all.
I dunno. Both XBMC and Media Browser use the same scraper to get information for tv shows, why did one file format ("01 - Episode Title") work on one and not the other? Why does it need episodes to have their season number in the name when the season is already listed by the folder they're in? Why does it insist on refusing to acknowledge the existence of certain episodes? Why does Bello keep complaining about the mouse being plugged in whenever I start? Why does Weather's fan art not load backgrounds applicable to the current weather status instead of just being random? Why does it list some movies twice?
I'm going to continue to try and stick with XBMC, because WMC and Media Browser aren't supported any more and Media Browser Theatre is a useless buggy mess at this stage, but I am bewildered at how difficult it is to do seemingly simple things, like set up my library. If Media Browser couldn't find any information on a film or tv show, it still listed it as a playable item in the list - why can't XBMC? There are some things that it's just not going to see - my Web & Comedians folder, for example, is filled with neither movies nor tv shows, but is instead filled with all sorts of miscellaneous things that do not fit either description. XBMC has no chance of making any use out of this folder. I guess I have a lot to learn and I will continue to chug on through it, because I believe it's worth it in the end, but holy hell is it frustrating me along the way.
I dunno. Both XBMC and Media Browser use the same scraper to get information for tv shows, why did one file format ("01 - Episode Title") work on one and not the other? Why does it need episodes to have their season number in the name when the season is already listed by the folder they're in? Why does it insist on refusing to acknowledge the existence of certain episodes? Why does Bello keep complaining about the mouse being plugged in whenever I start? Why does Weather's fan art not load backgrounds applicable to the current weather status instead of just being random? Why does it list some movies twice?
I'm going to continue to try and stick with XBMC, because WMC and Media Browser aren't supported any more and Media Browser Theatre is a useless buggy mess at this stage, but I am bewildered at how difficult it is to do seemingly simple things, like set up my library. If Media Browser couldn't find any information on a film or tv show, it still listed it as a playable item in the list - why can't XBMC? There are some things that it's just not going to see - my Web & Comedians folder, for example, is filled with neither movies nor tv shows, but is instead filled with all sorts of miscellaneous things that do not fit either description. XBMC has no chance of making any use out of this folder. I guess I have a lot to learn and I will continue to chug on through it, because I believe it's worth it in the end, but holy hell is it frustrating me along the way.
