Hi Team. I am putting this in general help and support instead of Rpi even though I’m on an Rpi, because it doesn’t seem like an Rpi problem. My TV Shows are only showing 6, even though there are dozens of shows in the same folder as the ones it found.
After lots of googling around, I landed on Filebot to normalize my file names, and it worked perfectly, renaming all of the files. I havne’t seen a flag to use it to create the nfo files yet, but it just doesn’t seem like something is working correctly here regardless. I have seen many threads on tvdb being down, but it seems to be up right now. And I don’t see a lot of other complaints in the forum.
Whatever filebot may have done to your files, from looking at your logs it’s clear to see that the titling is still all over the place and not at all uniform or compliant with what Kodi expects. You should take some time to examine the link provided above that describes exactly how Kodi needs to see these filenames and their directory structure.
FileBot uses the actual TVDB to look up the files and puts them in a format that Kodi can read. As I said, files in the same directories, with the same filebot, with the same permissions and ownership, are being read fine.
Nonetheless, I used the format command to make them look more like you can see on the Kodi help pages, which of course I wouldn’t haven’t not read before using Filebot.
I actually feel like it is some kind of brain fart that I just can’t find. I am going into settings/video/to the drive/to the TV-Shows directory, right click on it and scan. It scans and seems to just skip all but 6 shows. If I click into that directory, only those 6 shows have artwork. It’s loopy.
Oh that’s ugly. Yes, it worked so thanks for the followup. Fortunately filebot does allow you to put a …/{n}/ into the format command so it can make clean directories. I did one manually and the system saw it. Now I’m running fb on everything to see what it does.
/path/to/TV shows/Show 1 season 1/
/path/to/TV shows/Show 1 season 2/
I glad it’s working for you. You do realize that if you had read the link I gave you over a day ago you would have had this issue resolved then? That link clearly shows how to properly name the files and directories.
I had already read that link but didn’t realize that filebot wasn’t renaming directories as well. I know you are trying to be helpful, the correct advice would have been that the scrape is breaking on directories, not files and to look at the directory names, as the file names were fine in their original state. On closer examination I realized that and figured out how to use filebot successfully.
The correct advice was given, as both directory and filenames were incorrect. But you don’t have to worry about my free advice anymore as with your attitude you will not receive any more from me.