[Dobyken]

^^ It will require a separate database processor. I will see about adding one which will detect all episodes as shows. It will require a name. Please come up with an appropriate setting name for such an episode processor which will skip TVDB scanning and be universally acceptable for all countries and languages. It can be as simple as "no TVDB" or "Skip TVDB". Setting names are important as I am trying to keep them as short and understandable as possible.

It does not seem that it would be very difficult. I should be able to implement it within a week or so. All shows will be labeled S0E0, or do you think it would be more appropriate to create a separate naming convention which would include S*year*E*MonthDay*




I wrote a detailed response yesterday but the power went out, then the power went out again.

Can you do some testing for me to see if the current naming convention will work in a folder like "/episodes/Family guy/Season 1/Family Guy S01E01 (first episode).mpg"?

I need to know if this will work before I do this. The intention of mythicalLibrarian is not to make the shows ready to be copied to DVD. mythicalLibrarian is designed to import shows into XBMC. If the naming convention is completely compatable, then it will be easy to implement. Please do some testing.

The current naming convention is completely portable as a single file, whereas if the folder is required to be included, the file looses portability.

I've got all my files in season folders already and XBMC reads them fine...it recurses through the folders named Season # and adds the files. It's just a matter of moving them down one level from where they currently get moved. What I had in mind was something like a selection on the config screen that asks if you want Season folders. Your code would then use that and
Sudo code (excuse my VB6 roots)

If SeasonFolders=True then
If not exist([Drive]/Episodes/ShowTitle/Season # then
MkDir [Drive]/Episodes/ShowTitle/Season #
mv Showtitle [Drive]/Episodes/ShowTitle/Season#/Showtitle
else
mv Showtltle [Drive]/Episodes/ShowTitle
End if

Currently you are moving the files all into one folder so I wind up with

Showname Folder
ShowTitle S01E01.MPG
ShowTltle S01E02.MPG
ShowTitle S02E01.MPG
ShowTitle S02E02.MPG

Suggested Optional Season Folders
Showname Folder
Season 1
ShowTitle S01E01.MPG
ShowTltle S01E02.MPG
Season 2
ShowTitle S02E01.MPG
ShowTitle S02E02.MPG

It just gets too messy with 200 episodes over 8 years all in the same folder. I'm not sure what you meant by "ready for DVD" . With my example instead of having 200 episodes in one folder it would be broken up into 8 folders each with 24 episodes. Besides..I couldn't fit 24 episodes on a DVD<grin>.