I actually explicitly search for tvdb numbering coz that’s their primary numbering, but we know btn uses a mixed approach, some stuff is numbered by tvdb others by scene. Could search for both…
They number their releases to whatevery they prefer, but have strict rules about not renaming the actual files. So when I search for E23, we would ‘usually’ get back E22 on that call.
Could do a filename/releasename wildcard search but that’s ugly.
What source said that BTNs primary numbering is TVDB? I haven’t heard that before and would like to read more. From what I’ve seen personally their numbering matches scene.
So episode 25 of Pretty Little Liars aired tonight and Sonarr successfully grabbed the torrent numbered E24 and imported it and renamed it as E25, just how I would expect it to work.
I tried to manual search for episode 25 after that and it says no results found. So it is working for the RSS feed, but not the manual searches it looks like.