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When there are multiple movies of the same name in the same year it will pick the first on in the list. This is not a file name issue. I just want to know if I add the sources as seperate entries will it readd them to the library as a duplicate entry?
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I haven't come across movies with duplicated names in the same year. It shouldn't add them again if they are the same path.
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Well separating them works but now when I add media I have to manually scan 7 shares instead of 2. Clearly this is better than just scanning 2. I had my shares working for years without issue so clearly it needed to be fixed in this release. Thanks for making things simpler. Does plex do this too?
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Let me get this straight. The reason my library not updating is because my sources are combined? For ex, my movies source contains Anime movies, Animated Movies, and etc. It would work better if I separated these sources? Anime source, Animated movie source, etc.? Cuz right now I'm using tools outside of Kodi to redo my whole library which has now taken 2 full days and it's not finished yet! I would love to just use Kodi for my library scraping!
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2015-01-20, 04:54
(This post was last modified: 2015-01-20, 07:34 by pharmeceutikle.)
Ok, that is what my exact problem is: I have a folder with nothing but .strm files. I was having a problem scanning them into the library. Actually, Kodi just skips over them. There is over 10,000 .strm movies in that folder! That can be another issue I guess. When I manually try to update that folder Kodi actually freezes for 10-15 minutes. I don't know if that is because the sheer amount of files in that folder, but Kodi always recovers, but the library never sees anything in that folder! Nothing ever gets scanned or scraped.
Edit: I figured it out. It's the sheer number of files Kodi had to scrape which was causing problems. I tested a folder with about 10 streams and it worked ok.That mega folder was collected files for over several years and upgrading to Kodi it had to process a lot of information in one folder causing hiccups.
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Have you actually read the wiki section on filenaming?
Also, get your source organised. For movies
moviesource/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009).mkv (some will say separate directories per movie is not needed, but it works better IMHO. People will say the year is not needed, but it does no harm and who knows when Avatar will be remade or forgotten and another film of the same name made.)
For TV:
tvsource//Rectify/Season 1/Rectify S01E01 - Always There.mkv Here the year should not be used unles sit is part of the name on thetvdb. EG Doctor Who vs Doctor Who (2005). Also you don't really need the episode title (Always There), or Season directories - I find them tidier.)
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