All TV Shows showing up as episodes of Al TV

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Ok, so before you ask what the heck the title means, I am running the June build of OSMC with Kodi 18.7 on a Pi 3 B+ connected to a NAS via SMB configured with fstab. This has happened completely in this version.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I have no clue why, but on my TV Shows page all shows are grouped under Al TV (Yes, the show starring Weird Al from the mid-80s). I don’t know why this is happening, but from everything I’ve tried I can’t find a way around this.

What makes this peculiar is that the movies tab is just fine. My NAS is setup to have two primary folders for media, Films and TV. The movies source folder is NAS itself (i.e. the primary folder) and the TV folder is “TV.” I’ve been struggling to understand why Al TV would be the choice of the Movie Database to scrape for during an error, so I tried other scraping add-ons, and nothing has changed.

Other oddities include digging into the source folder and navigating to the shows (btw, they are labeled “Game of Thrones,” then inside that, “Season 1,” then inside that, Game of Thrones S1 E4” just incase that matters) to which on the first time navigating there, the system showed the correct information without a poster, and the second time with al tv info.

Understandably, I looked this up on the Kodi forums and they have never heard of anything like this, and seemingly neither have these forums. Google has nothing either.

Here is the log: http://paste.osmc.tv/ohehuhalek

Any help is appreciated, I have literally no clue why this is happening, and especially why the hell Al TV,

Thanks for the help, I hope this isn’t nonsense,

-B

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I’m not sure but it may have something to do with your TV source being a subfolder of your movie source which is highly unusual. I think I would move your movies files to /mnt/movies, dump your entire library, and then try again.

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Oof how could I have overlooked this. I didn’t realize how much this could mess up my system until now. I changed the movie folder from the master source folder to the film source. When I did this, I deleted the original, replaced it, and cleaned the library. What I didn’t expect was for the entire system to just up and crash. I rebooted it and there was nothing under movies but the tv shows folder was fixed with info and graphics. I ended up deleting the master for movies again, rebooting, and reloading the library which seems to have done the trick.

Thanks for the help my guy, I hope someone in the future can learn from my oversite here.

(still not sure why Al TV tho)

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I’m glad that fixed it as I didn’t have any other ideas on what could cause that particular issue.

As for the why Al TV I would guess that the “TV” folder itself got fuzzy matched to that show so it put everything below it (ie all of your TV program files) as being part of that show. The way Kodi scans TV shows it attaches a TV show match to a folder and any videos inside of it are assumed to be episodes of that show. Subfolders below a show match are completely ignored, it only scans the file names for season and episode info.

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I didn’t realize Kodi skips intermediary folders between the parent and file. I assume that’s just to help the user organize files with some structure without inhibiting the scanning process.

Glad I got to learn something. Thanks for your help!