TV Show REGEX for anime?

Someone posted a solution months ago which worked for me so far: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=284004&postcount=9

thanks for the suggestion, I tried it out (without the Season part as I use absolute numbering and don't have Season directories) but I get exactly the same result: the series where the episodes where found before, are now still found, and the series where xbmc fails to retreive the episodes from, still fail, with the same errors: "ERROR: PCRE: Match limit reached" and "DEBUG: scraper: GetEpisodeList returned <episodeguide></episodeguide>"
so It looks like it is not caused by the regex..

so did anyone ever figure this out? i started using this xbmc 2day and am having trouble adding blood+ to my tv show library. any help?

right now they are named like this

blood+/[Shinsen-Subs]_Blood+_15_[2EA36A95]

and ive tried both of these but they dont work either

blood+/season 1/Blood+ - 102 - Magic Words

blood+/season 1/S01E01


any help?

big-man Wrote:so did anyone ever figure this out? i started using this xbmc 2day and am having trouble adding blood+ to my tv show library. any help?

right now they are named like this

blood+/[Shinsen-Subs]_Blood+_15_[2EA36A95]

and ive tried both of these but they dont work either

blood+/season 1/Blood+ - 102 - Magic Words

blood+/season 1/S01E01


any help?

What I ended up doing is the following.. and had no problems in the end (though it's a PITA to set up)

1) I used a 3rd party app called "Media Companion v318" to control the creation of the NFO files... you should be able to find it in the support apps forum, it's near the top I believe.
2) Then I took a trip out to TVDB.com, which is where the PITA part comes in.
For each series I looked it up and determined how TVDB.com lists the episodes..
In your example: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=78960&lid=7
The season 1 contains episodes 1-13.. so the files would be renamed as something like "Blood+ S01E01" thru "Blood+ S01E13" (the SxxExx is the important part).

Each season is in it's own subfolder.. so my structure is more like

...Blood/
......Season1/
..........S01E01
..........S01E02,etc..
......Season2/
etc..

Once I have done that for all seasons (note special eps are listed under Season 0 [S00Exx]), I then pointed Media Companion to that particular folder.

3) Tell Media companion to look for new episodes and then it will gather all the plot info, and everything else including fanart, posters etc..

Once done you'll end up with a fully populate NFO file that XBMC can read natively without any effort. (I might have had to go into "TV Show Information and tell it to refresh but I cannot recall).

From then on it's easy as I just drop in a new Episode in the proper folder and once a week I load up Media companion and simply tell it to search for new episodes.

One note about Media companion, is to watch out for the LOCK icon..if a lock is on, nothing will update for that show.

Hope that helps..

this is what peeves me off the most

why is it FileBot .. works with just about any anime I can throw at it whilst XBMC struggles to reconize them ...
I have spent months on regex's for Anime breaking and unbreaking them while FileBot just keeps pushing through them correctly matching and renaming the eps ?

just glad the symlinking file renaming method is working for me

getting to keep my files for archiving and getting them renamed for XBMC scrapper to do its thing with out using extra HDD space

(2012-05-29 16:08)MasterCATZ Wrote:  this is what peeves me off the most

why is it FileBot .. works with just about any anime I can throw at it whilst XBMC struggles to reconize them ...
I have spent months on regex's for Anime breaking and unbreaking them while FileBot just keeps pushing through them correctly matching and renaming the eps ?

just glad the symlinking file renaming method is working for me

getting to keep my files for archiving and getting them renamed for XBMC scrapper to do its thing with out using extra HDD space

Ask FileBot's dev what regex he's using?

I know this is an old dead thread that got resurrected.... but, this issue is a HUGE problem for many of us that the xbmc devs completely scoff at.

Anime should not be that hard to scan. There are EXCELLENT database sites available, including Anidb which even uses file hashes which are the absolute best way of scanning a file ever invented.

Unfortunately, outside of one add-on there's absolutely no support for:

1) Hash lookups - Anidb supports this, other services could theoretically. Completely bypasses need for regex matching.

2) Single-Season Programs - Everything gets stuffed under an unnecessary "Season 1" folder.

3) Special Episodes - requiring they be renamed as "season 0" is pathetic. There is a clearly established naming/numbering scheme that XBMC clearly ignores.

4) Anime OVA - these are the worst. They typically won't show up as TV shows, because they don't have an episode number, but they can't be scraped as Movies either, since IMDB etc doesn't list them, only the Anime sites do - which are treated as TV show sources.

These are all problems that can be EASILY solved and have come up repeatedly in the forums, but everyone is just told to use all sorts of workarounds.