(2012-03-27, 11:59)Martijn Wrote: (2012-03-27, 07:40)fr0stbyt3 Wrote: I know it doesn't really help, but you can use external scraper apps for the time being. I use metabrowser 2.0. I am sure there are free apps like this for xbmc. Basically this show goes into a folder to be processed, before it get to the folder. So all xbmc has to do is load the info that is there.
And they still get their info from TVDB.
Altough I don't approve the way they respond to question (haven't experienced this myself) I do understand that they lock episode and keep a strict guideline on how things are done.
If you have 1000 users all of them will disagree on certain things. So that why they do things the way they do at the moment
Consider yourself lucky that you haven't, here's the typical thread regarding this show (this is quoted exactly from an actual thread):
User: Searching for "Korra" gives 3 AKAs for Avatar: The Last Airbender (the previous series, 74852), a buggy incorrectly-named result (251085), and a valid result (257570). All 3 of those AKAs should be removed, and the development titles "Avatar: Legend of Korra" and "The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra" should be AKA'd to 257570 and the incorrect, buggy 251085 should be removed. The current state causes some API clients to match The Legend of Korra to The Last Airbender, which is certainly incorrect.
Moderator: Don't worry, I deleted the duplicate entry you just added. Unfortunately and as I've said before 251085 can only be removed by an admin, but aliases aren't API searchable anyway so it's not really a problem. Do not add this series again. There are extensive threads on the topic if you search the forum and we will not be changing it unless the conditions I specified are met.
Nothing wrong with that bit, but when the user responds with the information to fulfill the conditions, well I'll let you read:
User: I've read through all of the threads related to The Legend of Korra and seen debates on whether it's a spinoff or a sequel. Honestly, to me, that's pure semantics and doesn't really make a difference; the show has been referred to as a "spin-off", "sequel", "something new", "new from the creators of", etc. I don't see why it even matters what we call it; what's clear to me is that Avatar: The Last Airbender was a show with its own creative and voice cast, set in its own time period. The Legend of Korra takes place at least 70 years later, in a world which has evolved to the point where none of the original settings of The Last Airbender have been shown, or even mentioned. There is an entirely new voice cast, and unlike The Last Airbender, which had a larger creative team who wrote the episodes, each episode of The Legend of Korra will be written entirely by the two co-creators. The only thing that the two series share is that they take place in the same universe, and if that's the only point necessary to have two series merged, then I should ask why there's a Doctor Who and a Doctor Who (2005) in the database when those two share much more than a universe and two writers.
I also should ask, what's the actual reasoning behind moving Korra to Season 4 of TLA? Korra will have two seasons, which will (likely) have their own DVD releases. Will the actual (canonical, defined by Nick/Viacom and the creators) Book 2 of Korra be labeled Season 5 of TLA? This just seems illogical to me, as it makes using this series with HTPC software difficult to impossible for most fans (who, like Nick/Viacom, consider this a new and separate entity). What are the advantages for the users of TheTVDB of having this show grouped in, when its episodes are universally labeled along the lines of "The Legend of Korra S01E01"?
Oh, also, ID 251085 is still in the database with an incorrect title, and it's impossible to edit.
Also also, regarding my original duplicate entry: when I was trying to enter Korra into TheTVDB (because Plex on my NAS wouldn't match it properly [it still won't]), I found 3 AKAs sending it to TLA, which I assumed were leftovers from when the show was first announced and it appeared to be more of a continuation than anything new. I found 251085 and tried to edit it, found it to be too bugged out to work, and set out to make a new entry, hoping that the old, incorrect one would be fixed and that I could find a mod to change the AKAs later (thus my original forum thread). Given the only non-AKA Korra entry being buggy to the point of uselessness, I think adding a duplicate entry was a reasonable course of action in this case.
If you still think that keeping Korra as seasons 4 and 5 (possibly more, note, as Nick may order another extension) of TLA, then I certainly can't stop you. I don't have to use this database, as you've mentioned, and I can certainly set my metadata manually. I just hoped that a DB like this one, which usually works wonderfully to match whatever I throw at it, might bend towards a format that can allow more actual viewers to use it conveniently.
Moderator: Guess how much of a shit I give.
And then they locked the thread so the user couldn't reply.
The Moderators (least the ones I've dealt with) demand respect from the users in that they follow the rules, post in the correct section and include links to everything; but the moderators have 0 respect for the users.
P.S. sorry for kinda steering this off of scrapers, just venting frustration a bit, and if I even tried posting something like this on the forums there they'd ban me most likely.