Run Media Companion on Shows, now no longer shows episodes in XBMC

This has been posted over @ xbmc forums by someone else, and I tagged onto of it

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=492199#post492199

In short, I run media companion on a tv show, it gets all the goodies (nicely I might add)

but then, when in XBMC, it sees no episodes for these shows anymore? prior to running this it showed fine...what gives?


My main goal is to try and reduce xbmc from scraping (takes forever) and feed the shows info @ my pc (btw batch doing every show would be sweet )

Thx in advance

i'm not sure what the problem is.

Over the last couple of weeks I have used the XBMC library heavily for scraping and not had a single issue.

This is more likely to be an XBMC glitch, but to be certain, if you post a couple of examples of your nfo files, maybe a tvshow.nfo and episode.nfo file, i'll check them out.

Will post some tomorrow. Thanks for the reply.

Here is a tvshow.nfo for the following show Archer, which doesn't show any episodes in XBMC but, there are 3 in the source.

http://pastebin.ca/1765486 is the tvshow.nfo

and currently there are no episode.nfo files

This isnt usually a problem though, since before I used Media Companion I never had any of these.

I'm having the same issue. I just downloaded gen2 3.293, deleted the entire xbmc library, and ran MC on my TV shows directory. I identified the shows, but didn't have MC do the episodes. Fire up xbmc, point it at the TV Shows directory and it scans and correctly sets each directory as the correct TV show, but none of the shows have any episodes in the library view. I can remove and re-add the source all I want and it has the same result, for every show.

My setup for all directories is like this:
\TV\30 Rock\30 Rock - 4x11.mkv (and other numbered episodes)
\TV\30 Rock\season-all.tbn
\TV\30 Rock\season01.tbn (for all four seasons)
\TV\30 Rock\season-specials.tbn
\TV\30 Rock\tvshow.nfo
\TV\30 Rock\fanart.jpg
\TV\30 Rock\folder.jpg

Everything works fine if I let XBMC scrape everything, it detects new episodes automatically. There aren't any nfo files for individual episodes.

Here is the tvshow.nfo: http://pastebin.com/tRQEyfv6

I have noticed this behavior to, if i scan the show with MC i must always scan every episode with MC because if XBMC finds the tvshow.nfo (I think) it seams that it dont scan for episodes itself.

And one more stupid thing I have scanned every show and episode (and downloaded actor, posters and fanart) I have on my filserver but XBMC still connect to thetvdb.com. so if my Internet is down or thetvdb.com is I cant add any new show to XBMC.
I dont know if this is an stupid XBMC issue or what!!!!

nmerriam wrote:

I'm having the same issue. I just downloaded gen2 3.293, deleted the entire xbmc library, and ran MC on my TV shows directory. I identified the shows, but didn't have MC do the episodes. Fire up xbmc, point it at the TV Shows directory and it scans and correctly sets each directory as the correct TV show, but none of the shows have any episodes in the library view. I can remove and re-add the source all I want and it has the same result, for every show.

My setup for all directories is like this:
\TV\30 Rock\30 Rock - 4x11.mkv (and other numbered episodes)
\TV\30 Rock\season-all.tbn
\TV\30 Rock\season01.tbn (for all four seasons)
\TV\30 Rock\season-specials.tbn
\TV\30 Rock\tvshow.nfo
\TV\30 Rock\fanart.jpg
\TV\30 Rock\folder.jpg

Everything works fine if I let XBMC scrape everything, it detects new episodes automatically. There aren't any nfo files for individual episodes.

Here is the tvshow.nfo: http://pastebin.com/tRQEyfv6

I have no idea what is causing this - I just setup a '\30 Rock' folder with the file '30 Rock - 4x11.mkv ' and both the show and episode scraped as expected.

Jocke69 wrote:

I have noticed this behavior to, if i scan the show with MC i must always scan every episode with MC because if XBMC finds the tvshow.nfo (I think) it seams that it dont scan for episodes itself.

And one more stupid thing I have scanned every show and episode (and downloaded actor, posters and fanart) I have on my filserver but XBMC still connect to thetvdb.com. so if my Internet is down or thetvdb.com is I cant add any new show to XBMC.
I dont know if this is an stupid XBMC issue or what!!!!

If you are not using local actors thumbs then XBMC will download those from the TVDB using the urls within the nfo file.

billy i think they are talking about if you have MC to set the show you cant get XBMC to add new episodes before MC have created the nfo file for the new ones.

billyad2000 wrote:

Jocke69 wrote:

I have noticed this behavior to, if i scan the show with MC i must always scan every episode with MC because if XBMC finds the tvshow.nfo (I think) it seams that it dont scan for episodes itself.

And one more stupid thing I have scanned every show and episode (and downloaded actor, posters and fanart) I have on my filserver but XBMC still connect to thetvdb.com. so if my Internet is down or thetvdb.com is I cant add any new show to XBMC.
I dont know if this is an stupid XBMC issue or what!!!!

If you are not using local actors thumbs then XBMC will download those from the TVDB using the urls within the nfo file.

the strange thing here is that i have stored them localy??

billyad2000 wrote:

I have no idea what is causing this - I just setup a '\30 Rock' folder with the file '30 Rock - 4x11.mkv ' and both the show and episode scraped as expected.

Bit if you add the tvshow.nfo file to that directory, and remove and re-add that source folder to XBMC, will it add the episode to the library? Or does it show that there are zero episodes?

If I remove the tvshow.nfo file, then tell it to scan for new items, xbmc immediately finds all the episodes. I suspect it is an XBMC issue, that it sees the nfo file and maybe assumes that if I have a series nfo I should have episode nfos?

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The assumption is always at fault, that is with the spatula. However, I just my own personal experience where I talk about the swamp standard default install (no add any form of addition is the only use of Aeon65 skin), and there is no difficulty, no scraping (except TVAB downtime) Almost in the past 18 months. Not bragging, I might add, maybe I'm just lucky.