TV not pulling external ID - no option to "identify"

[Diedrich 377]

In my TV section of the Metadata Editor; some of my shows are not recognized and a refresh will not pull up any external id's. Shouldn't we have the ability to "identify" such as in the Movies section?

 

[Angelblue05 4132]

Is the Falling Skies folder empty?

Edited November 23, 2014 by Angelblue05

[Diedrich 377]

Yes. And I see where you are going - even more reason to provide a Identify button to populate the fields.

[Maleficarum 68]

I don't think it starts pulling info unless there's at least a season folder in there, I may be wrong though.

[Beardyname 198]

I don't think it starts pulling info unless there's at least a season folder in there, I may be wrong though.

 

this^

 

make an Season 1 folder and re-scan

[Diedrich 377]

this^

 

make an Season 1 folder and re-scan

Thank you. I'll try this. Very much appreciated!

[Beardyname 198]

Just to add what i said earlier: I have found that any season folder under the show fixes this, but you usually add the Season 1 before the others so

[ebr 16184]

The moral of this story is that an empty folder is not a TV series.  It is just a folder (and, thus, nothing to identify).

[Diedrich 377]

Well, I have tried everything in vein. I tried S01, Season 1, Season 01, Season01 and none worked. I tried refreshing the show's into. I tried refreshing the TV parent. I even tried a shortened tvshow.nfo file containing the IMDB and TVDB IDs. None of that worked. Suggestions?

 

@@ebr Could we get the ability in the GUI to simply add the IMDB or TVDB ID in the "External Ids" field to give the indexer a starting point?

[ebr 16184]

You will get that option as soon as the system recognizes it as a TV show.

 

Just add a Season 1 folder and run a library scan.  If any metadata files have been created in the folders, delete them as well.

[Diedrich 377]

That was the trick, I had .nfo files in the main folder that XBMC had loaded. Thank you very much for your patience.