2012-04-03, 00:15
There really is no helping people. It really makes no difference to me.
If you actually tried what I suggested, you would see it works. The example I gave matches your example perfectly and I even went to the trouble of taking the time to recreate your named example (Ancient Aliens) on my test system to confirm it worked.
Quite honestly I'm not sure what your issue. If you want to resolve the issue, use the example given. It will work. If it doesn't and you have other issues, learn some basic manners and post in a more helpful way.
Other wise I can only assuming you are trolling.
As for breaking down how regexps work no, I won't spoon feed that to you. The wiki guide explains what we look for and how it works and gives a multitude of examples, if you want to learn more google is your friend.
If you actually tried what I suggested, you would see it works. The example I gave matches your example perfectly and I even went to the trouble of taking the time to recreate your named example (Ancient Aliens) on my test system to confirm it worked.
Quite honestly I'm not sure what your issue. If you want to resolve the issue, use the example given. It will work. If it doesn't and you have other issues, learn some basic manners and post in a more helpful way.
Other wise I can only assuming you are trolling.
As for breaking down how regexps work no, I won't spoon feed that to you. The wiki guide explains what we look for and how it works and gives a multitude of examples, if you want to learn more google is your friend.
(2012-04-02, 23:01)john.doe Wrote:(2012-04-02, 15:56)prae5 Wrote: Whilst I can understand your frustration to a degree, you atitude is doing nothing to make people to want to help you.
(2012-04-02, 14:32)john.doe Wrote: i have 22 tv series. mostly all HD. EVERYTHING is labeled as followsNo one is saying you have to rename or reorganise anything. However, what you seem to be failing to see is that whilst your library may be as close to perfect as you can get, it is not a common organisation scenario for the bulk of our user base, hence the reason why your library is not being scanned.
F:\TV Shows\Ancient Aliens\Season 1\01 Chariots, Gods, and Beyond.mkv
i do not have any tv series that has any seasons or episodes displaying. theres maybe 4 random episodes that have the sxxexx in them simply cuz i havent organized them yet.
and renaming anything defeats the whole purpose of organizing my library anyway. its as close to perfect as you can get so i dont intend to alter 2TB of files just to work with xbmc
This is not XBMC's fault.
Equally, when presented with a solution you have done nothing with it. The wiki article posted earlier gives an example that would work perfectly with your file naming and organisation scenario, in fact it is the very first example given!
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...s/TV_shows
Specifically:
You can make your own naming conventions / rules by adding or editing regular expressions in the advancedsettings.xml file, with the tvshowmatching tag. When enumerating episodes for a series, XBMC only cares about the season and episode, so when designing regexps you should only be concerned with these things.
Here are several common naming schemes and corresponding regexps and examples.
\Season #\## (Season# is at very end of directory name, and filename starts with episode name, neither have to be a specific number of digits) :
Code:<tvshowmatching>
<regexp>Season[\._ ]([0-9]+)[\\/]([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
Example : \Battlestar Galactica\Season 3\01 - Occupation.avi (Season 3, Episode 1)
If you put half as much effort into trying to resolve your problem as you did ranting about it, then you really would have had no reason to rant.
oh, too bad your too caught up trying to protect your forum to read. I think they can handle it. either way thats not how my library is set up. i applaud your intense problem solving skills.
Quote:Or you know, you could use file mode and just ignore scanning.once again, this defeats the entire purpose of me using XBMC. if i want file view, ill use explorer, end of story. i dont really know why you tried to "contribute" there. dont really need to say anything else i cant see how you think thats even remotely logical
what you dont seem to realize is you just spat out the opposite of what i already said (first guy.) first of all like i said thats not even my library setup, and second of all, you cant simply go edit that file without any prior knowedge
[\._ ]
([0-9]+)
[\\/]
([0-9]+)
[^\\/]*
what do any of those mean? you cant sit here and tell me i can edit it to my liking when there are no laymans terms. maybe if you want to explain to me what every little bit of that is, we could do this. but no your not gonna do that. there is nothing to explain to me how that code represents "\Battlestar Galactica\Season 3\01 - Occupation.avi (Season 3, Episode 1)" . i cant just go into that data and pick out the "-" . if it was written as text then yeah, itd take two seconds but its not. the average user, as you say these are based around, has no intention to reverse engineer your software
EDIT: lol, i decided to change one season to that exact format and even then im in a worse spot than i was before. i didnt realize ancient aliens was at all related to "Formula 1 Season review" from 1950. splendid
also i read that article many times. if you can pick out somewhere in that wiki that shows what all these things represent, id be impressed. or i guess id just appreciate you going to add every one in there because they are definately not on your wiki. defeats the purpose of having one id think