Import Issues with Futurama - Unknown Series (not the DVD ordering problem)

Hi everyone!

I’m having a very strange issue with Sonarr when I try to manually import Futurama episodes. I am aware of the DVD/Broadcast ordering problem, but my Sonarr installation just plainly doesn’t recognize the tv show that I’m trying to import.

First, I tried with all episodes, all seasons. Now, I only try to import a few episodes of Season 1 (see screenshot below). All files/folders have 755 permissions, tried changing the folder name to tvdb(id) (with id of futurama), tried with no caps, tried with changing episode name to plainly s01e01.mp4, but Sonarr keeps telling me unknown series.

Also tried to import when I already had futurama in my database as a series and also when not, same result.

Anyone else noticed this problem? Do I need to change my folder to a different name?

Its likely because the file name doesn’t contain the series so Sonarr is unable to determine it properly.

This scenario is one of the reasons why we added Manual Import (though its not the most intuitive) you can click the series column and change the series as well as pick the season and episode.

Doing this might be a pain for each episode in the season so you may find it quicker to drop the episodes in the series folder and rescan the series, once they are in the season folder Sonarr doesn’t need to match the series, just the season and episode.

But, by doing so I’ll probably lose the ability of sonarr augomagically recognizing I’m importing episodes in DVD order and not automatically switching it to broadcast order right?

If that’s the case, I’ll probably get an automatic renamer program to rename all episodes with futurama in front or something like that :).

Sonarr doesn’t know about DVD order, in that case you’d need to rename them to aired order, even with manual import its going to treat them as aired order unless you tell it otherwise, the choice there is to rename the files to aired order or do it in manual import.

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