2010-01-16, 22:38
well, i spoke to soon - i tried one more permutation which worked. renaming the files (& Show directory) to Law & Order Special Victims Unit results in a tvdb match to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The colon was throwing it off, but interestingly it shows up in my xbmc library with the colon intact in the show name.
Moreover, i've tried this in both windows and mac XBMC environments with same results.
Guessing this was tvdb developers simple fix for fact that not all file systems accommodate punctuation (at least : ) in file names?
So currently, mythicalLibrarian is writing "&" as "and", and for this show we need to drop the colon from the name. Is this too much of a corner case to fix?
if so, see if this logic on my end makes sense to you...
another thing i found poking around in tvdb... i guess because there's no exact match for the full Law & Order Special Victims Unit title, ML can't simply get the series ID (it returns a page and a half of various unrelated titles although the title of interest is on the page about 1/4 way down)... but i found that if i searched instead just for Special Victims Unit, it returns just the series info in question.
So perhaps what i need to do is create a show translation where:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit = Special Victims Unit, let ML process that and find the series, let it write out the files, and then i simply create another script to move and change the names of the files, which effectively drops the colon out of the name, if needed, and ensures the name uses "&" instead of "and". I'd only run this script for this show...
Moreover, i've tried this in both windows and mac XBMC environments with same results.
Guessing this was tvdb developers simple fix for fact that not all file systems accommodate punctuation (at least : ) in file names?
So currently, mythicalLibrarian is writing "&" as "and", and for this show we need to drop the colon from the name. Is this too much of a corner case to fix?
if so, see if this logic on my end makes sense to you...
another thing i found poking around in tvdb... i guess because there's no exact match for the full Law & Order Special Victims Unit title, ML can't simply get the series ID (it returns a page and a half of various unrelated titles although the title of interest is on the page about 1/4 way down)... but i found that if i searched instead just for Special Victims Unit, it returns just the series info in question.
So perhaps what i need to do is create a show translation where:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit = Special Victims Unit, let ML process that and find the series, let it write out the files, and then i simply create another script to move and change the names of the files, which effectively drops the colon out of the name, if needed, and ensures the name uses "&" instead of "and". I'd only run this script for this show...