I am contemplating migrating my 990 TV Shows from SickBeard to NZBDrone but i have a few reservations. My biggest one is while going through the interface quickly, i couldn’t find a way to display the episode titles along with the filenames on disk to ensure they are correct.
A lot of times, TheTVDB will change episode seasons, numbering and titles and all of a sudden everything is out of sync. Is there are way to see those quickly without having to click on each individual episode to see what the filename is? A perfect example of a messed up show for me is Banged Up Abroad.
It’s the only way of checking the file name. But if u want to rename the file (which will show all difference between TheTVDB and ur current files u can click on the rename icon next to the search icon.
Also, you can click the series editor in your series list, select all the series you want to update the names for and click organize. No need to see the current file names if all you want to do is fix them.
OK … either i am terrible at explaining or you guys didn’t look at my screenshot
When i first added the Banged Up Abroad episodes, Season 1 was 4 episodes and Season 2 was 4 episodes. Then someone on TheTVDB merged the 2 seasons together and made what were episodes 1-4 or season 1 now be episodes 5-8. Season 2 episodes 1-4 are now episodes 1-4 of season 1.
All the seasons have been reshuffled and the episodes within each season are also scrambled.
If i blindly hit the rename button, i now have no way to know which episode is which without playing them one by one.
So to recap, if i rename within the tool, something like this would happen:
Current Filename: Banged Up Abroad - 2x01 - Venezuela.avi
Filename if i use automatic rename: Banged Up Abroad - 2x01 - Korea.avi
What the filename SHOULD be: Banged Up Abroad - 1x02 - Venezuela.avi
The only way for me to get the good filename is to rename manually. Having a list of Episodes and the current filename is a lot easier than having to click each episode to see what the filename is.
I understand that view is not available but i just wanted to explain my reason for wanting it. You’d be surprised at how many shows get reshuffled like this. I have over 990 Shows and sometimes i will watch something and be like “That’s not the right episode!!!”. Then i have to go see what happened on TheTVDB.
Last time I checked thats only possible with special episodes. Those can be recognized by episode name (not certain what it does with a season and episode number in it) but this feature hasn’t been added (yet) for the normal seasons. Can’t test it atm.
That only works for specials IF the special isn’t numbered properly. Which is intentional because we didn’t want to have a major impact (since normal episodes are released with numbering properly defined).
As for the actual question at hand, I’m not sure how we want to handle it, my initial thought is its ugly to have it in the episode list, so I’ll give it some thought.
@markus101 We should store an json object in the EpisodeFile class containing the information used to rename the file.
Such as season, episode, absolute numbers and episode title.
That way we can determine if a rename is likely going to be messed up in the case tvdb/trakt/whoever changes the numbering or episode order. Avoiding exactly the situation that @prsinister describes.
What do you think?
@Taloth I don’t a benefit there, all that will do is track if the episode title has changed, which is already known because the episode title in the filename doesn’t match the episode’s file. There isn’t going to be a scenario where drone has a different season and episode number for the file than the episode its attached to.
Maybe an icon much like the one that says absolute numbering is missing for anime will do? You could use it to warn the user that something is wrong with the episode and after that checking what is wrong is just a click away.
I love how you guys are on the ball so quick with this! Reminds me of the early days of SickBeard…
I was thinking that there may be a way to add something simple without messing up your beautiful clean interface:
How about adding a button in the episode list called “Show Filenames” and when you click it, a row is added under each episode and that is the filename? You could indent it, make the font smaller and of course with it not being a hyperlink, it will be easy to spot the differences.
That should keep it clean and not cumbersome.
You guys are awesome for trying to find a way to make the process of reconciling episodes easy for the end user but in the end, it really has to be handled by a human.
