Hi,
At which point does Nzbdrone create the missing season folders when a new show is added.
I have the “Create empty series folders” toggled on but ever time i add a new show the season folders are not created.
This is really frustrating as i have noticed that both Xbmc and MB3 do not add the show to the library until a season folder is added manually under the series folder?
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Scalda
The wording of the option seems to suggest that only the series folders get created even if there is nothing to put in them, not the season folders.
Season folders are only created when episodes are sorted to those season folders. Some metadata files may also be created in empty season folders if thats where they go.
Is there anyway for Nzb Drone to create the empty season folders, or do they need to be done manually as I belive it should be create empty season folders not series folders, as they aren’t empty when series folders are created as they put the series metadata in there.
XBMC will add the series as long as there is a season folder (originally we didn’t create them to prevent empty shows from appearing in XBMC, but it was requested it be added, not sure about MB3.
Both XBMC and MB3 should add the series if their metadata is created (MB3 metadata is not yet available in drone).
You can force MB3 into adding a TV show by manually creating an empty Season folder for a newly added TV show, so that it fetches metadata.
I thought it had to be the series.xml file but @Luke says an empty Season folder will suffice., otherwise the series.xml isn’t updated.
Same goes for xbmc, that a empty season folder needs to be added for it to load the metadata
@scalda @CBers thats to load the metdata for a the series from a file that already exists? or for XBMC/MB3 to load it from TVDB themselves?
Whats the benefit of having the series in XBMC/MB3 is there isn’t any episodes?
Lots of metadata exists for shows before they air.
Seems a bit pointless to add a new TV show if you can’t fetch the metadata for it, even if it’s not aired yet.
Sure, thats a personal preference, still need answers to my questions to understand if we want to change this. Creating empty season folders seems a bit awkward just to force another application to load data it should be able to with the existence of a series folder (empty or not).
Well at the moment, the only way MB3 detects a series is via either a series.xml file or an empty Season folder. Both of which causes a fetch to occur within MB3.
The series.xml file route is problematic, as MBS doesn’t update it with new details, unless we force an update (refresh).
With SickBeard, the series.xml file is created, populated with all the required information, so it doesn’t need updating again and MB3 is happy to fetch metadata.
Metadata for MB3 is in progress (just series.xml at the moment), drone will update it when it gets new information (it does this for all metadata files it creates). Just waiting on a couple fixes and then we’ll merge it into develop.
Thanks markus.
How do I get the dev build please?
Its covered on the wiki: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Release-Branches
OK, thanks.