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.

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...?

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.

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.

@abiyi said:

I run Settings > Media > Library > Clean library every time I change any setting or rename a directory or move files.

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.

@superboy97 said:

@abiyi said:

I run Settings > Media > Library > Clean library every time I change any setting or rename a directory or move files.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reminder : the best place to discuss this is the Kodi forum.

@superboy97 said:

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.

Obviously I meant "video library".

Yesterday I was deleting (manually) records from MyMusic82.db corresponding to a deleted source.

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.

@superboy97 said:

Reminder : the best place to discuss this is the Kodi forum.

I know, that's exactly what I did.

I was about to post a reply with a kodi.log and then this happened.

Then, you will have to wait.