I’ve recently migrated from Sickbeard to NZBDrone (Love it!) However when renaming my episodes I’ve noticed it names the Specials season as “Specials”.
Is there a way to make this “Season 0” instead?
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I’m curious as I rarely ever download specials, why would you need it renamed?
Specials seems to make more sense.
XBMC uses Season 0 by default (As it uses the TVDB for scraping) - I understand Season 0 is fairly standard though?
I’ve also noticed that although NZBDrone names the folder “Specials” the numbering format for the files inside are still “S00EXX”.
Yes, the files are named correctly, just the folder is named Specials. This hasn’t been an issue for me with XBMC since it doesn’t really care, just a personal preference for on disk.
It could certainly be an option, but not something I want to consider doing right now. Hasn’t been an issue to date so it would have to get some interest.
I don’t have any issues on XBMC and i have a mixture of Season 0 and Specials folders.
Just about to try it, but does anyone know if Plex can handle ‘Specials’ as a folder name?
Andy
i usually have to rename specials to something like 0x01 - Title of Special
and when scanned into XBMC it give me the specials folder so works well for me i don’t download a lot of specials so don’t have to worry about it much
Holy necro batman. The forums should have warned about this when the post was being made (I hope).
Specials should be fine, works for XBMC and Plex is/was based on it.
if i’m incorrectly not following this thread, i apologize (slightly new to all of it).
but tossing a vote in for the “‘season 00’ instead of ‘specials’” option/preference.
(plex likes it more, and it keeps everything more pretty and uniform.)
Sorry for resurrecting this old topic, but I’m facing this issue myself at this time.
This discrepancy will cause issues with 3rd-party scrapers, for those people who wish to tag/scrape their media collections outside of XBMC/Kodi. For example, tinyMediaManager uses the ‘Season 0’ format for special folder naming.
I store all my media remotely on the home network on a NAS device, but tagging/scraping or modifying files remotely on a network-based device can lead to issues with corrupt files/improperly set permissions, general latency, etc, etc. So I have a local copy of everything on the NAS, also on the desktop I do all my tagging/scraping/organizing on. The changes are then synced back to the NAS either via CIFS/SMB or via Rsync depending on the size of the modifications to that library.
I Have Sonarr running and referencing the files on the NAS. This is handy for me, as the NAS is in operation 24/7, whereas the desktop is not. The issue comes when working on the local (essentially, the backup) copy of the media library. TMM will rename any ‘Specials’ folders back to ‘Season 0’ folders, so when syncing the changes it’s necessary to get Sonarr to re-scan every one of my 110 shows to get it to re-detect the now changed Specials folder. Neither Sonarr, OR TMM allow the user to specify what the name of this folder should be.
It’s true that XBMC will recognize either, but aside from the issue listed above, I think there is a lot of scope for duplicates, wasted space, extra time for syncs, or accidental deletion. Having an option to be able to specify which method the folder is named with, like is possible for the ‘Regular/Anime/Aired By’ standards would be a welcome change.
I for one prefer the ‘Specials’ name for the folder, as it’s more distinct, and is easier to locate when browsing folders via explorer that have a lot of seasons, but at this time, the established ‘standard’ (i.e: the way pretty much every other app out there handles specials folders) is with the ‘Season 0’ format, so this ought to be an option for the sake of safety, if nothing else, IMHO.
Dan/Gib.
I wanted to follow-up on this one (without starting a new thread - I can if that’s appropriate) - in searching I found that there was a ticket in for selecting either Season 0 or Specials, but I’m not seeing it in the interface if it’s there. I really would like to use the Season 0 format just since it’s what I have now and aligns w/my current Kodi setup.
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