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ESK
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 17 Jun 2013 : 00:59:16
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Have never been able to make a tv series import properly. I think the issue may lie in my file management approach. Let me tell you what I'm doing and see if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I have each tv series within a folder. Inside each series, each season has its own folder "Deadwood" subfolder by season "Deadwood Season 1" file name structure "Deadwood - S1xE1 - Deadwood". Is this the proper structure? I'm guessing this may be my issue but have tried many different variables and can't get it to work.
The results: On the Extreme Movie Manager, it pulls one entry for each season. It's random. The fifth show, last show, etc. That's the only one it features and it features it in a section called "Specials" but above it, it reads S:00,E:00.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks! |
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manumi
Starting Member
Belgium
6 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jun 2013 : 01:31:48
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I had the same problem.
The extraction won't work this way because you repeat the same info on different levels (for example the season is a subfolder name but is also integrated in the name of the file).
You can't use a mask to extract the data successfully.
I tried this a lot.
So I changed my hierarchy (in fact, the name of my files) this way :
\Deadwood\Season 1\e1.mkv
(i removed the season from the name because the file is in a folder that indicates that season).
And i'm using the following mask when extracting title, season, number :
\<SERIE>\Season <SEASON>\e<NUMBER>
and it finally worked.
Don't forget to also check the option so that the "folder name" is taken from the FIRST folder of the path.
You can then use it with the option "Set TV Show Title like folder name" to affect all your files in one time to the right show.
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Edited by - manumi on 17 Jun 2013 01:36:49 |
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ESK
Starting Member
USA
12 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2013 : 23:23:58
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| I tried that approach as well but it imports each episode as one entity, not as the tv series and tv episodes by season under.. Is there a step I'm missing? |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 24 Jun 2013 : 07:26:05
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You're right. In XMM8 each episode is treated as a movie. It's because of the actors, directors, etc. the complete reason has Ale written somewhere in the forum.
And manumi's way is the one I have used, too. |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
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ESK
Starting Member
USA
12 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jun 2013 : 02:03:19
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| OMG Thank you for clarifying!!!! I just assumed it would work like box sets listing the tv shows under the series header. That would be ideal but at least I can finally import shows. Cheers! =) |
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Issue Importing TV Series