I can't find any explanation of how to name a folder to fetch TV episode metadata for a specific order. For example: "Blu-ray order" instead of the original air broadcast dates. No matter how I rename the folder and files, Kodi's TMDb TV Show addon keeps fetching the episodes metadata for the original air dates, messing up the list. The last try was "Cowboy Bebop (Blu-ray Order)" which gave the same outcome as "Cowboy Bebop (1998)"
It seems there's no explanation on the subject besides this: https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/tv/59f743289251416e71000037
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Reply by superboy97
on April 7, 2023 at 12:13 AM
This depend of the software you are using and you should ask this question to the support team of your software.
For example, for Kodi, this is explained here.
Reply by Nelson
on April 7, 2023 at 7:43 PM
I'm confused: in the section "Episode Orders" the wiki page for TMDB TV Shows addons explains at the end: "Select a Group, then copy the address for use in a Parsing NFO file.".
In my case, the NFO should be named "tvshow.nfo", and the hyperlink for the "Blu-ray Order" is https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/30991-cowboy-bebop/episode_group/606a5cf909c24c00782bbf59
The wiki page references the Kodi thread "Alternative sorting of series with tmdb scrape" with the explanation: "The way to get it to work is to make a tvshow.nfo file in the folder of the show, with the contents of the file, just being the URL of the episode group you want to use."
So, as far as I get, the tvshow.nfo file won't have an XML structure as described in its wiki page, only the episode group URL... the thing is that even so, it doesn't work for me.
Am I missing something? Is the Kodi documentation that is missing something...?
Reply by superboy97
on April 7, 2023 at 11:50 PM
Are you using the correct version of the Kodi scraper ? This works only with the Python version of the scraper.
Also you should start from a clean folder structure for that series without reminders of a previous scrape.
Reply by Nelson
on April 8, 2023 at 12:42 AM
I'm using TMDb TV Shows 1.6.5.
I run Settings > Media > Library > Clean library every time I change any setting or rename a directory or move files.
Reply by superboy97
on April 8, 2023 at 2:19 AM
This has no action if you just change a setting. you need to explicitely remove the show from the library.
"Clean library" only has an action if the video file doesn't exist anymore.
Reply by Nelson
on April 9, 2023 at 9:50 AM
I once renamed "Cowboy Bebop (1998)" to "Cowboy Bebop (Blu-ray Order)" to see what would happen. Then I tell Kodi to clean up the music library. It didn't work.
Reply by superboy97
on April 9, 2023 at 9:59 AM
As indicated above, you need to explicitely remove the show from the library. That means that you should open the context menu for this specific show and choose "Manage..." -> "Remove from library".
By the way, cleaning the music library is not very useful for shows.
Reply by Nelson
on April 9, 2023 at 10:11 AM
I've done it many, many times. First, with every single episode and later with the whole TV show.
I'm going to close Kodi, move away the whole "Cowboy Bebop (1998)" folder, command a library update and see what happens there, open Kodi once again and command once again a library update. Crossed fingers.
Reply by superboy97
on April 9, 2023 at 10:14 AM
Reminder : the best place to discuss this is the Kodi forum.
Reply by Nelson
on April 9, 2023 at 10:21 AM
Obviously I meant "video library".
Yesterday I was deleting (manually) records from MyMusic82.db corresponding to a deleted source.
Reply by Nelson
on April 9, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Experiment finished: TV show folder moved away three levels (outside of the TV shows source). Kodi executed. TV show library automatically updated at the start. Same story.
Reply by Nelson
on April 9, 2023 at 11:39 AM
I know, that's exactly what I did.
I was about to post a reply with a kodi.log and then this happened.
Reply by superboy97
on April 9, 2023 at 11:42 AM
Then, you will have to wait.