2011-06-04, 01:34
Thanks for picking up the weekly updates. It's great to see this project making forward progress. I have what feels like a bug or inconsistency, but I guess it is more accurately a feature request . My xbmc box is on a linux system and I spend a lot of time at the command prompt, so all of my movie and tv folders have special characters stripped and periods in the name where most windows users have spaces. Examples:
M:\A.Bugs.Life
M:\A.Few.Good.Men
M:\Aladdin
T:\Fairly.Legal
T:\Fringe
T:\Good.Eats
XBMC itself handles the periods just fine and is able to located correct movies and TV series information. The movie portion of MC seems to work fine as well. That may be more a function of how IMDB and the Movie DB handle periods in their searches. Everything seemed to break down though when I got to the TV series. Single word shows such as Fringe worked just fine, but anything with multiple words bombed. I spent a lot of time in the TV Show Selector tab manually replacing all the periods with spaces before MC could find the shows. I checked the main tvdb site and sure enough, their search just doesn't handle periods well.
Is there any way to add an option (or even a default) in the preferences for replacing periods with spaces before searching? It may be that I'm the only one that's weird enough to have run into this, in which case I understand that it's not worth the trouble. But I thought I'd toss it out there in case I'm not the only one, it might add a little robustness to the app.
M:\A.Bugs.Life
M:\A.Few.Good.Men
M:\Aladdin
T:\Fairly.Legal
T:\Fringe
T:\Good.Eats
XBMC itself handles the periods just fine and is able to located correct movies and TV series information. The movie portion of MC seems to work fine as well. That may be more a function of how IMDB and the Movie DB handle periods in their searches. Everything seemed to break down though when I got to the TV series. Single word shows such as Fringe worked just fine, but anything with multiple words bombed. I spent a lot of time in the TV Show Selector tab manually replacing all the periods with spaces before MC could find the shows. I checked the main tvdb site and sure enough, their search just doesn't handle periods well.
Is there any way to add an option (or even a default) in the preferences for replacing periods with spaces before searching? It may be that I'm the only one that's weird enough to have run into this, in which case I understand that it's not worth the trouble. But I thought I'd toss it out there in case I'm not the only one, it might add a little robustness to the app.