Adding year to TV show

[gryphon5]

This wiki article shows how to get the scraper to chose the correct TV show by providing the year in brackets.
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=TV_Shows#The_scraper_picks_the_wrong_TV_Sho w

However, it appears the scraper ignores the brackets, here is xbmc log:
15:36:40 T:156 M:1548800000 INFO: Get URL: http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=jericho&language=en
15:36:41 T:156 M:1548783616 INFO: Get URL: http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/79092/all/en.zip
15:36:42 T:156 M:1548767232 DEBUG: Adding new item to tvshows:H://Disc2/Jericho (2006)/

This incorrectly searches for just "jericho" selects a series called Jericho (1995) and not Jericho (2006). Is this behavious expected or is it a bug?

[FlimtotheFlam]

Right Click on the show, Than click TV Show Info, Than hit Refresh, It should pull up the option to choose the 2006 version.

[gryphon5]

In a related query - is there a way to see the actual path/filename of an episode to manually check that the scraping is sucessfull? Sometimes the episodes are scraped wrongly and opening the SQLite db or reading the xbmc debug log isn't an easy solution.

[jmarshall]

Just to confirm:

"Jericho (2006)" is how you have the folder named?

[gryphon5]

"Jericho (2006)" is how you have the folder named?

Correct

[sho]

Yes, the wiki is riddled with that (not from me, I *think*)
So if year is ignored, would it constitute a bug?

However if you search for
battlestar galactica (2003) you will get a match
but
battlestar galactica (1978) will get you nothing because the original is "Battlestar Galactica" on theTVDB.com
So using years could be more problem than it's worth?

[sho]

The following filesystem will give you 2 shows (both original version), with 18 episodes for Doctor Who and 9 for BSG original since it only had one season.
Content is set on TVtest

c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)
c:\Media\TVtest\files.txt
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (1978)\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Battlestar Galactica (2003)\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (1963)\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s01e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s01e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s01e03.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s02e01.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s02e02.yyy.avi
c:\Media\TVtest\Doctor Who (2005)\xxx.s02e03.yyy.avi

[sho]

This tracker covers the issue:
http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/4744

[vdrfan]

Fixed in revision r15524.. the tvdb scraper will now use the year if found in the folder name of your series.

Regards,
VDRfan

[kraqh3d]

that's strange. i thought xbmc already did this but with the exceptions that sho noted since its based off of how thetvdb has the series named.