DGMayor 90 Posted November 17, 2013 Posted November 17, 2013 What determines the placement of specials in the seasons? I ask because of course the first show I checked was Doctor Who, and they're out of wack - season 5 and 6 stuff showing in season 1, etc. Is there something in the Metadata I can edit to fix it or is it automatically pulled elsewhere.
Luke 42077 Posted November 17, 2013 Posted November 17, 2013 it's these values in xml: 2 but it's also only showing specials that have a known air date, in an attempt to only include the ones that actually aired on tv.
DGMayor 90 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 (edited) it's these values in xml: <airsafter_season>2</airsafter_season> <airsbefore_episode> </airsbefore_episode> <airsbefore_season> </airsbefore_season> but it's also only showing specials that have a known air date, in an attempt to only include the ones that actually aired on tv. Think we could expose those values and maybe the aired on date value in the metadata editor? Also, what if it doesn't air after or before a season? Again I use Doctor Who. There are over 90 specials in TVDB for Doctor Who. Many are 5 minute "Prequel" episodes that fall before specific episodes. Many of them are scattered throughout the season. Here's a good example: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=78804&seasonid=372611&lid=7 Edited November 18, 2013 by DGMayor 1
Luke 42077 Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 those are just the names of the xml values. they are not named intuitively but they have already been in use by metabrowser and mcm so i just adopted. once they go into the metadata editor they will have friendly names. you can have specials before, after, or during. it's all controlled by different combinations of the three values.
DGMayor 90 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 (edited) Ok, playing with it in Metabrowser. Thanks. Edited November 18, 2013 by DGMayor
Crestj 68 Posted November 28, 2013 Posted November 28, 2013 Hi, as my kids have now got into Doctor Who I am facing the "Specials" issue as well. Did you find a good way to treat them? I added them to a Specials folder (Doctor.Who.2005.50th.Anniversary.Special.The.Day.of.the.Doctor.mkv and Doctor.Who.2005.Christmas.Special.2011.The.Doctor.The.Widow.And.The.Wardrobe.mkv) but both MBS and MCM have no idea how to deal with them.
Yogi 367 Posted November 28, 2013 Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) This is the way I do it and have done for a long time. Specials for a particular series all in one folder called Season 0 Next the epsiode named the same way as on TVDB, (eg The Day of the Doctor would be S00E83) then let your metadata program grab all the info. Works for me. Edited November 28, 2013 by Yogi 1
Abobader 3464 Posted November 28, 2013 Posted November 28, 2013 This is the way I do it and have done for a long time. Specials for a particular series all in one folder called Season 0 Next the epsiode named the same way as on TVDB, (eg The Day of the Doctor would be S00E83) then let your metadata prgoram grabbed all the info. Works for me. Same here as well. 1
Crestj 68 Posted November 28, 2013 Posted November 28, 2013 Ah ok, I've now renamed them using the s00exx format and they are being dealt with now. Thanks!
pagali 62 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I'm basically just asking "How should we add TV extras that are NOT in TVDB?"
Luke 42077 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 you can just put them in yoru season 0 folder like other specials. they don't need an episode number. for example "Season 2 bloopers.mkv" will be just fine.
pagali 62 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) I've used that method (TVDB listings) for specials that actually aired on TV... but how should we handle specials that are ripped from the disks, whether BD or DVD? I've tried putting them all in a show-level 'Specials' folder, with and without Season sub-folders. I've tried putting them in a 'Specials' folder inside each season. Neither way seems to work consistently. What's recommended? Edited December 4, 2013 by pagali
pagali 62 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 you can just put them in yoru season 0 folder like other specials. they don't need an episode number. for example "Season 2 bloopers.mkv" will be just fine. Oops. What a mess! Don't try this at home, kids! I tried this with a couple of series... and MB3 changed display titles, sort titles, assigned obscure episode numbers... it was determined to match my dvd features to unrelated things in TVDB, whether it made any sense or not. Example: I had a Fringe DVD file called "Season 1 - Gag Reel.mkv". It got turned into "Past + Present + Future -- A Tale of Two Walters" Figure that one out! Be sure if you have any features not in TVDB that you turn off metadata for that Specials folder before you put them in there! And maybe make it read-only also. I had to use the metadata editor to correct titles, sort titles, change source to Video (instead of Episode) and delete episode numbers.
Luke 42077 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 yea metabrowser does the same thing. it's easy enough to correct afterwards. you don't have to change the source type though.
pagali 62 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I changed the source type because until I did, MB3 kept putting the phony episode numbers back into the mix.
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