Many thanks for this. It has put my mind at rest, especially with regards to smb, where, given all the problems other people seem to have had with it, I thought I might be storing up future problems for myself.
Thanks also for the TVDB suggestion. I have always used TVDB and not had any problems, so was unaware there were issues, but searching the forum revealed quite a lot. I found that Kodi has changed its default TV scraper to TMDB and as far as I am concerned, it doesn’t matter which I use, as long as it works of course. But I did note that in November 2020 you were still using TVDB (Scraper TheTVDB will be switching to a subscription based payment model - #7 by darwindesign) due to problems with older shows, which I suspect may well apply to me too. What are your current thoughts on this? And is there any way to determine if TMDB will be OK for my media, other than just try it and see?
John