(2017-08-09, 01:58)lharms Wrote: If you have more than one disc it is just a matter of naming the file correctly
http://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files...r_stacking. If you use stacking when you press play it will ask which one to play.
Alexander (2004) disc1.iso
Alexander (2004) disc2.iso
The wiki describes the allowable names. You can also override the allowable names. You can do this by modifying the moviestacking options in your advancedsettings.xml file. I had to do this because I had a lot of files and one of the options was removed at one point.
As Karellen points out your folder and file name needs to match the site you are scraping from. For example I use IMDB which usually very closely matches TMDB. So all of my movies names match those. Every once and awhile it does not match up. In that case you need to browse to the 'file' section of KODI and manually match it. You can press 'c' and 'information' then refresh. At that point your movie name should pop up. If it is not in your scraper you will need to make an nfo file and then update. Every once and awhile it will not pop up from imdb/tmdb. You can use the tt name from the URL from imdb to search for instead of the real name.
In your case you are running into an 'alias' problem. Some movies have alt names in different territories or re-release versions. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1966-alexander The 'real' name is 'Alexander (2004)'. You can get it to scrape in using that then just rename it to what you recognize. I have a couple of other movies like that.
99.9% of the time if you name it right and do update it will scape correctly. But like you found out every once and awhile. The trick is getting the right name.
In my experience, which is somewhat limited, Kodi gets files right about 90-95% of the time. This might be useful for a movie player when im looking for something random or wanting suggestions; but it is almost useless as a means to play series.
That may sound harsh but I will give an example. If Kodi is only seeing part of a series, even though it is typed out to a t and matches the scraper, the user ends up missing content and not knowing it until a random reference is made and you check your folders vs kodi. Thanks to a nice addon you can see most of the missing files, but there seems to be no simple way of adding them. By simple I mean not creating a nfo file every time kodi glitches, which would would be quite time consuming and frankly not worth the effeort. Smart Audiobook Player alerts you to files which are correctly recognized at the time of scanning instead of having you search for an addon, dig through that addon, then scan to see most of what was missed originally.. without offering suggestions for how to fix it
Another key feature missing for series is the ability to resume a series. I'm guessing their is an add-on somewhere as I thought I saw one at a friends once. But why is this not a built in feature? Another feature missing is the ability to tag series being added by genre (the built in genres are ridiculous) as you can with JRiver.
Is there not a simple way to force add a file that Kodi has obviously seen, it shows in missing episodes, but refuses to scrape it?
Yes I know its a lot of griping for my first post. I have tried Kodi several times now and always give up. It is an app which seems to be designed for ppl who want an easier media experience for their personal collection but expects you to dig through menus and have some coding interest to make it work which seems very contradictory to what I thought was the purpose.
