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- steve1977 - 2010-11-28 03:44

I was trying to set desired initial download quality to "best", but SB automatically changes it to "custom" with "SD TV"/HD TV" being selected. Why is that or am I doing anything wrong?

Any thoughts?

- Henkske - 2010-11-28 12:35

Is there a method or something for updating the COMING EPISODES list.
I know full update can do this but can it also be done an another way? Sometimes the next episode isn't updated on some shows and it would be great if it was possible to let it check by pressing an button.

BTW thank you for this amazing app.

With best regards,

Henk

- daemox - 2010-11-28 18:19

steve1977 Wrote:I was trying to set desired initial download quality to "best", but SB automatically changes it to "custom" with "SD TV"/HD TV" being selected. Why is that or am I doing anything wrong?

Any thoughts?

What exactly would you like to happen?

I generally recommend using custom anyway, so tell me what you'd like to happen and I'll try to tell you how to set it exactly to your needs.

Cheers,
daemox

- daemox - 2010-11-28 18:23

Henkske Wrote:Is there a method or something for updating the COMING EPISODES list.
I know full update can do this but can it also be done an another way? Sometimes the next episode isn't updated on some shows and it would be great if it was possible to let it check by pressing an button.

BTW thank you for this amazing app.

With best regards,

Henk

Henk,

I'm not sure on that one (maybe check on the Sick Beard forums?). I know Shade the XBMC skin has a similar feature which may be more convenient (it's in the repository for Dharma).

Cheers,
daemox

- daemox - 2010-11-28 18:26

dannycorker Wrote:EDIT: OK scrap that got it working Big Grin Only one question - is there any way to manually assign an nzb to an episode? For instance, specials are hardly ever found for me because they're rarely posted as S00Exx. So is there any way around this?

Thanks again!

Hi Danny,

I would just manually grab them, rename if need be then have Sick Beard Manually Post Process the folder that they are in.

Best of luck,
daemox

- steve1977 - 2010-11-30 14:20

Quick Q - I just added a bunch of TV series. All worked great. Unfortunately, it shows one TV Show in the first row of "Home Screen", which is completely empty. Basically an empty row. Doesn't really hurt, but is annoying.

Thanks for your help!

- PiNCH - 2010-11-30 14:40

Just a quick question: is it possible to keep the release group in the filename after SB renames them? Like S01E01.Pilot-ILL.avi?

I'm not (necessarily) looking for a reply with a guide - if it's possible, I'll start reading up on this thread assuming a guide is in here Wink



EDIT: Oh, another question: is it possible to specify the season folder? As I get it, SB will scan the season folders correctly, but won't adhere to them.

At the moment I have this setup:
\Show\Season.02.HDTV.XviD\S02E01-ILL.avi - and all files in the folder will be scanned correctly in SB.

But if I download a new episode, SB will either create:
\Show\Season 2\S02E02.avi or \Show\S02E02.avi - depending on whether season folders in SB is checked or not.

Is there any way of avoiding this? I.e make SB place new episodes in the season folder that's already been created?

Again, I'm not searching for a reply with a guide - just a yes or no, I should be able to find the solution myself if it's possible Smile

- PiNCH - 2010-12-01 02:48

I've been playing with SB for some time now and it's great! It does what it's intended to do, but as my previous post tells, I can't get SB to sort the way I want it to.

I'll give a quick explanation on how I sort my shows, so you know why I'm suggesting this: most of my downloads are scene releases and I hate neglecting any info that came with the release (not counting the .nfo).
To keep all info I put all common denominators at the lowest level possible: for me, a season will always have the same Format, Source and Encoding, so the release "FlashForward.S01E09.iNTERNAL.720p.HDTV.x264-PiX" final destination would be \FlashForward\Season.01.720p.HDTV.x264\S01E09-PiX.mkv (I don't care about "internal", but SB should!).


I know we all have our way of doing it and I'm not asking midgetspy to cater to my needs, so this is my suggestion: since scene releases ALWAYS contain format (unless content is SD), source, encoding and release group, why not have SB recognize this? If it did this, searches and sorting could (in the long run) be made to meet anyone's needs!

A list of matches for format, source and encoding could easily be made, and release group could be defined as anything after the last "-" in the release name (release group is important if you ever need subs for a show).



And just a quick comment about internals (I got the release example from reading [url="http://code.google.com/p/sickbeard/issues/detail?id=169]this[/url]): when a group releases an internal, it's usually because the initial scene release follows the scene rules (and thus can't be propered), but can be improved - SB should therefor prioritize in the order: initial release<internal<proper Smile

- daemox - 2010-12-01 07:21

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- havix - 2010-12-01 19:23

First of all I want to say thank you for this software. It's awesome!

Second I had a question. How are people figuring out what content is new and what content is upgraded to a higher quality? The scenario being that I've just downloaded over 200GB of episodes through a backlog search and it automatically sorted them. Now my wife is trying to figure out what is new to watch in XBMC. Mainly she wants to watch episodes that I was missing in my library and doesn't care about the higher quality episodes. I see I can get a list of downloaded files from either Sickbeard of SABNZB+ but neither of these tells me which ones were missing episodes that were downloaded. Any thoughts?