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TV Shows is designed to go to TV Shows in the library. Simple as that. If you don't like that behaviour, I believe you can either change it, or remove the option completely via skin settings.
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Thanks for the fast answer.
Does somebody know how to change this, or if it is even possible.
The reason I want to do it is simply because I enjoy the files-view and think it is simple to use.
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As I said - investigate the options available to you in the skin settings. It may already be possible.
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Yea I think you can do that by unchecking "Enable Library" by going to System --> Video --> Library --> Enable Library.
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Press "C" on the source you want to add to the files view.
Set content.
Scan.
Read more on the online manual.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Actually I think those links are missing some pretty important info which I can't find on any guide.. except maybe the Plex guides. You'll need to do a bit of tweaking on your files, for example for tv shows it's best if you make folders for each season, so your tv shows folders would look like this:
TV shows --> Lost --> Season 1 -->
For shows and movies you'll also want to add the year right next to the title, so that the scraper chooses the correct data if there are multiple instances of the same title. So for example:
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
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Ah found it, make sure you click on the links under the "Preparing your Videos to be Scanned" section. Those links should have more emphasis or something, they easy to miss -.-
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For tv shows, season folders are completely up to the user - XBMC ignores them completely, unless the user specifically sets up a regexp to scrape them. None of the defaults require the season folder being present - all we require is a sane naming scheme, such as:
1x03 - blah.avi
And yeah, the tvdb and imdb scrapers in particular can use the year information if it's available. I'm not sure whether thetvdb can filter out a "bad" year value or not - eg for a show that doesn't require year (as there's only one instance of the show), so the best advice is only naming them with the year if you have a problem.
As a general rule, you need the year in the case of tvshows only if the show has multiple instances of it (such as BSG), and then the year is only wanted on the newer versions.
Cheers,
Jonathan