Incorrect Meta Data for TV Show "24"

[mbnwa 49]

For TV Show "24 Live Another Day (Season 9)" starting around episode 9 the meta data is pulling incorrect data for example ep9 is showing up with details for ep8, ep10 is showing up with details from ep9,  ep11 and ep12 are showing up with details from ep10

 

all earlier episodes that had been added loaded correctly.

 

Any ideas or suggestions or corrections that will stick?

Edited August 11, 2014 by mbnwa

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

Are ur episodes named correctly? Having a quick glance on thetvdb.com seems to show the correct order and it matches what I have for my episodes. Try checking ur naming conventions, preferably using I.e s09e01, s09e02, etc. And refresh an episode with the wrong data

[mbnwa 49]

all my TV Seasons are in iTunes format please note that this has worked on all past episodes and current episodes like Impractical Jokers the directory structure is below

(Series Name -> Season # -> Ep)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/797ffplj8rgp41y/Screenshot%202014-08-11%2011.02.24.png

 

The Meta data inside the file is the following:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yh7cvqa7fm7velr/Screenshot%202014-08-11%2011.05.13.png

 

Because I use iTunes to also manage my movies and TV shows for my Apple TV iTunes renames the file in the format iTunes would like to have the files in - as stated I am not seeing this on any other downloaded content only seems to be the last few ep's of 24

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

I can see why the itunes naming convention might cause problems for the server because it is full of numbers and the server is looking for the sequence of season and episode number to figure out which episode is which.

 

The description for episode 11 9pm - 10pm matches what is on tvdb. Is it not the right description for the episode?

[mbnwa 49]

So for example Ep 12 is being loaded as Ep 11

https://www.dropbox.com/s/23dc98rvr6h4th4/Screenshot%202014-08-11%2011.18.29.png

 

Ep 11 is being loaded as Ep 10

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dzs740mwk85xtg2/Screenshot%202014-08-11%2011.19.01.png

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

I'm pretty sure its because of the naming convention. If u edit the file name and add the proper sXXe00 tag to it and refresh it should find the correct data.

 

If u edit the file name will iTunes throw out errors trying to find it after? Try editing like I said above and refresh, then u can lockdown the data if u have to and revert the filename back to iTunes standard if u have to

[FrostByte 5060]

Agree, mine metadata is correct and I'm using the naming convention BD recommends and the names from thetvdb

[mbnwa 49]

So your suggestion does work until iTunes re-scans looking for the file that was changed it changes it back and after Media Browser does a rescan of the library then it goes back to the wrong data

[mbnwa 49]

Under Advanced in iTunes you can un-select keeping the folders organized I am going to give that a shot and see if that keeps the sXXeXX formatting

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

Under Advanced in iTunes you can un-select keeping the folders organized I am going to give that a shot and see if that keeps the sXXeXX formatting

If that doesn't work, add the sXXeXX tag again, let MB do its scan to organize everything, then go back into the metadata manager and for each of those episodes or the entire season if u want scroll down to the bottom of the page to "metadat settings" click it and turn off all the fields. This will lock it down and prevent MB from changing it later on.

 

Once that's done, then go back into iTunes and let it rescan changing the names back to the way they were originally without the sXXeXX tags.

 

Both iTunes and MB shouldn't have any issues with those episodes after. MB uses universal standards for metadata fetching and because iTunes is just using the episode name which to MB probably looks like random numbers. Its doing its best to make a match of all the hours/episode name that iTunes uses

[mbnwa 49]

Ok so it seems to be related to the naming convention that iTunes uses I did remove the ability for iTunes to keep the folders optimized and elected to go the sXXeXX route just need to remember to do that when adding new ep's