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hi, i am new to xmbc and i want it to parse all my tv shows,
they are currently all in the same folder with their scene names etc:
Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
Suburgatory.S01E19.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
House.S08E20.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
just like that,
i have read in the wiki that every show needs to be in a folder for itself,
but that's not the way i want it organized (the boxee app im coming from know how to recognize my tv shows just like that)
what do i need to do / change in order to see my tv shows?
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2012-09-23, 17:29
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-23, 18:08 by guynaa.)
i wish to be able to get xmbc to recognize all my tv shows, in their current names and structure,
this is really a deal breaker for me...
do you know of such a method?
edit:
what i mean by that is,
almost all of my content is like TV.Show.Name.S03E14
so i want xmbc to understand at least shows that are formatted like that,
with all epidoes of all shows in the same folder
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helta
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There is no reason to stick to scene rules, especially when you can use an automated tool like Sickbeard which does all the heavy lifting for you.
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2012-09-24, 10:43
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-24, 10:43 by Ned Scott.)
"Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION" = no/sometimes works, but not always
"Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18" = yes
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i have so far only been able for it to recognize
it using their default scheme: once upon a time\Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18
i am ok with the title changing from:
"Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION"
to:
"Once.Upon.a.Time.S01E18"
but i want all episodes from all tv shows in the same folder,
i tried reading in the wiki about changing the naming scheme using "advancedsettings.xml"
but couldn't understand it...
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ok, i give up...
is there an automatic solution to taking all my current tv show episodes and organizing them inside folders?
(tvrename, doesn't do that job)
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sickbeard does that and even more
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2012-09-26, 20:42
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-26, 20:48 by PatK.)
I guess my message about theRenamer was just air gasping.. message # 2
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No magic solution.
TVRenamer does just what it says on the tin.
As far as I know no app is inteligent enough to guess what your tv show/season is and how you want it collated.
So...I reckon the only solution is:
Spend some time moving all you tv show episodes into the folder structure I mentioned. Use the lupas renamer app to remove some spurious character or words or to enforce the correct file naming convention, then use the TVRenamer app to ensure you have the full/recognisable tvshow/filename.
You only have to doe this once, then you are done for that show/season.
It's not hard and if you really want to have things shown or picked up properly then it will be time well spent.
Confusion is just a state of mind.
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Check out SickBeard, its the best! but you will have to do some groundwork ie at minimum creating individual folders for your TV shows and putting the files in there. Season folders are not neccessary - that is just a user preference option.
/TVshows/
--/House/
--/Sesame.Street/
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If your files use the scene names you don't have to put them in sesperate folders before sick beard process them.
Sick beard wil make the needed season folders.
Only thing you need to do is to add the shows you got to sick beard list.
Sick beard will create the folders for every TV show.
Then manual post process all your TV shows even if they are in 1 big messy folder.
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