I added the series to do a validation test.
15-8-5 12:57:49.0|Debug|ParsingService|No matching series A League Of Their Own UK
15-8-5 12:57:49.0|Debug|DownloadDecisionMaker|Release rejected for the following reasons: [Permanent] Unknown Series
As far as I can tell it indeed should hit the mapping.
Thanks @Mirx_NL, guess that means itâs not just me and thereâs a problem somewhere else, given the title has been added to the the list. Hopefully @markus101 or someone else on Team Sonarr can chip in shortly once they have a minute and see whether that entry is indeed in the scene mapping db or has just somehow fallen off.
Fixed. I forgot to re-add the UK when I was cleaning up the name.
It looks like there is a typo for the scene name of âWho Do You Think You Are?â the UK series. TheTVDB Series Number 80522.
One of the alternate names is showing up as WhoDo You Think Your Are UK with a space missing between the first two words.
I submitted an item to the form but there wasnât a comment field to point out the error.
Thanks, this is the correct place for corrections. The issue has been fixed.
My apologies, it looks like I missed a second error in that same string.
It is currently reporting as
Who Do You Think Your Are UK
when it should be
Who Do You Think You Are UK
The TVDB series number is still 80522.
Thanks again.
Fixed. 
Hi, thanks for taking a look at my entry on the form (HBO Documentary film series) and I appreciate that it had already been added a while back, However I re-added it as it doesnât work either manually or auto it always returns no results for DL. Any Ideas?
many thanks
I am having an issue with the naming of a show, that I donât know how to address it by the form.
The problem is with Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited. Both are listed on TVdb as Justice League, with Justice League being Seasons 1 and 2, and Justice League: Unlimited being Seasons 3, 4, and 5. The problem that I am having is that I get a lot of download files originally named Justice League: Unlimited Season 1 and 2, which according to TVdb should be seasons 3 and 4, and they end up filled under Justice League Seasons 1 and 2. Unfortunately this means that the actual Justice League Season 1 and 2 episodes sometimes donât get downloaded in favor of Justice League Unlimited.
Justice League: Unlimited should really be its own show.
This is not a problem that can be solved via the naming document or TheXEM.de because of the episode number reset.
If JL:U should be its own show your best bet is to go to thetvdb and plead your case there to get them to break it out into its own show.
Be warned they can be quite unfriendly unless you have strong âOfficialâ supporting evidence for your reasons. Scene naming is not considered a good reason.
Submitted âThe Flashâ, itâs being used for âThe Flash (2014)â for WEB-DL releases.
One question: if the alias is added, does this need an update of the program or itâs based on a web call?
Iâm going to submit another alias, for American Horror Story, that is in some releases named as American Horror Story Hotel.
Having said that, I think that the regular expression regulating TV Series names is too strict. In both this case and in the previously reported (still to be taken into consideration) The Flash, a more lax regex would have saved me (and I guess other users too) time needed at the server to fix things. Are false positives more than this false negatives? Itâs an honest question, because to me it seems that the requirements are too stringent. And the fact that there are no user exceptions configurable makes this far from the fire and forget experience that it strives to be (I guess).
Thanks for your attention and all the time you dedicate to the project development.
Edit: furthermore, and this I frankly donât understand at all, if I search manually for the fourth episode, I find the 1080p WEB-DL episode Iâm looking for. It appears in the search results, as âunknown seriesâ, but I donât even have the option to manually download it. Why?
Edit 2: once i manually downloaded the American.Horror.Story.Hotel file for the fourth episode, I moved it to the appropriate folder. Then I went into Sonarr and clicked on âUpdate series info and scan diskâ. Lo and behold the file was caught correctly, and itâs status changed from âMissingâ to âWEBDL-1080pâ. This tells me that the regex for scanning local files is less strict and, in my opinion, more effective.
Neither of these problems is a regex problem and its not about being more or less strict. Once the series title is parsed it needs to match a series, either by matxhig the series title or an alias (naming exception).
In the case of The Flash being an alias for The Flash (2014), you canât just drop the year, this would conflict with the original series with that name unless they are released as a different name (which appears to be the case here).
In the case of American Horror Story, American Horror Story Hotel could be a completely separate series, its not, but could be and unles Sonarr knows about every series available it couldnât guess that itâs really the same series nor do we want to guess that itâs the same.
The reason it works when you drop it in the series folder is because Sonarr doesnât care about the series title that is parsed when a file is in a series folder, it already knows the series. That means if you drop a file for a completely different series into another seriesâ folder Sonarr will import it and is a big reason why Sonarr requires a series folder per series, not one folder that contains multiple series.
A false positive is in fact a dangerous thing, consider this, if you had all the files for a particular series and Sonarr incorrectly grabbed a release and replaced one episode file, would that be a big deal? Its a pretty easy problem to reverse by regrabbing the proper release, but what if it kept happing? Or what if it happened for every file in one season? Or every file in the entire series? There are thousands of Sonarr users, so it wouldnât take much for this to be a big problem and the reason why its handled as it is.
Btw, about American Horror story. Afaik itâs just one s05e04 release so far, not whole s05. (The Phr0stY release is questionable, looks like a repost of the QoQ release, the RARBG release might be the original) I would wait till s05e05.
Hi, thanks for your answers. I checked the Responses file on Drive and I donât see action taken on neither of the submissions. Is this because you wonât take action or itâs just a case of waiting? Honest question, no accusation or anything.
Regarding the explanation for the regexp being as they are, I understand. On the other hand I humbly suggest to devise a way for the user to manually override it. If I know that the series I want are named âThe Flashâ and âAmerican.Horror.Story.Hotelâ, why canât I instruct Sonarr, for those two specific series, to take into consideration those names as well? In the case of AHS it even finds the episodes but it doesnât allow downloading them (which I would consider a bug, even if itâs intended behaviour).
Thanks for your time and attention.
PS
Yes, I am talking about the RARBG release for AHS.
We havenât had time to verify and add them.
We have no plans to support a user controlled list, we much prefer the current solution that fixes it for everyone once its added. If Sonarr doesnât understand the series you canât forcibly add it.
Hi! Thanks for your reply.
I was aware of that github request, I read about it. Letâs say Iâm not too convinced of a solution that forces the team to take care of users on a constant basis. It leads to stress for you, I think.
I humbly repeat my request to at least being able to download stuff thatâs found through manual search. In that case Sonarr knows the episode the user is looking for. Even if one chooses a file not normally recognized, Sonarr knows how to rename it and where to place it. Doesnât it?