[mythtv-users] metadata look up for series that have (2012) or similar added to the series title

[jrh]

On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 July 2014 03:54, jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are series like castle, scandal, once upon a time, etc. that have the names on thetvdb.com modified to include the initial year of broadcast since there have been other series using the same name in the past.
>> 
>> All these types of series get missed in the metadata lookup and wind up as generic video when exported.. Any possibilities for this?
> 
> Is that for recordings or videos ?
> 


They are recordings and recordings that were exported to video.


> For recordings:
> Searching for a particular metadata is something at worse you only
> have to do once for that series.
> Edit the metadata's recording schedule , enter the TVDB inetref
> 

ok, i can see that... how could I go about changing multiple videos? for example, there are over 50 or so that are hanging in the Videos directory that have previously been exported and not recognized? I have some ideas, but wanted to bounce them off the consensus first, such as getting them out of the Videos directory into a folder structure that somewhat matches what should have been created if the title were recognized.

On a side note, when pulling data with series like this, is it possible to pull based on the partial Title of the series, and the title of the episode as well as the original airdate? Just brainstorming a bit.

Thank you for all your recent effort in the cleanup of mythmetadata as well as live tv, and the other multitude of positive changes you have made in the Myth TV code!

Also thanks to all the other developers as well for the rest of mythtv over the years! It is working very well for us!

> next recording will pick up the proper data.
> 
> If it's videos you acquired hmmm... through different means. You can
> always modify the title before adding the files. Seeing that you have
> to add the files regardless, changing the title is a tiny extra step
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