Organizing TV Shows??

[cubsfan61]

Hi. I was wondering... Do you need to have files for TV series separated into separate folders for Boxee to recognize season/episode info, or can all your tv shows be dumped into a single folder (i.e. /TV SHOWS)?

Thanks!!

Kevin

[timwoolsey]

all shows in a single folder works great here.

[bbaldino]

I'm curious about this as well. I have folders for individual TV shows mixed in with all of my movies. In XBMC I go to the top level folders individually and set content as 'TV Show' but I've noticed I've seen some of my TV shows mixed in with my movies in Boxee. Do the sources for movies and TV shows need to be completely separate?

[agentlame]

have you tried correcting boxee using the 'wrong video' option?

[cubsfan61]

Tried the single folder method and it doesn't work for me. First of all nothing immediately shows up when I choose TV Shows under the video menu. I have to go to my TV folder "source" and select a file and then "recognize" it. That works fine, but it asks whether I want to apply that particular series to the entire "TV" folder. Since I have several series in there, I can't do that. What then happens is that particular episode now shows up under TV Shows, but nothing else.

Guess I'll go back to using folders for each series. Once you've applied recognition to that folder, everything dropped in it from then on is recognized.

If there is a way to use a single folder that I'm missing, please let me know.

Kevin

[agentlame]

i would strongly recommend against using a single folder... boxee bases some of it's recognition logic on the folder structure, in the case of tv shows.

[shaneg]

So what's the recommended file structure for TV Shows?

Mine is

/LaCie/TV Shows

then each show has it's own folder and season folders:

/LaCie/TV Shows/Heroes/Season 1

with the episodes in that folder.

[bbaldino]

So it looks like Boxee did a fine job of recognizing the TV shows even though they were mixed in with my movies (although each show is in its own directory). A few it had trouble with (seems to be those whose season/episode naming schemes were incorrect) but after fixing them it separates everything fine.

[erikveland]

have you tried correcting boxee using the 'wrong video' option?This never seems to work for me. It just doesn't seem to do anything after the "Correct every show in this folder?" dialog :(

[agentlame]

So what's the recommended file structure for TV Shows?

Mine is

/LaCie/TV Shows

then each show has it's own folder and season folders:

/LaCie/TV Shows/Heroes/Season 1

with the episodes in that folder.
this is the structure i use... works great.

[Gamester17]

dumping all files into a single folder works as long as they are named "TVshowName.S01E01.VideoFileExtension" or similar, but better is it use the file structure shaneg listed.

Directory layout example:

TV Shows
|----TV Show 1
| |___ TV Show 1 Media files
|
|----TV Show 2
| |___ TV Show 2 Media files
|
|----TV Show 3
|___ TV Show 3 Media files

Where Content is Set on the top level "TV Shows" folder.

The defaults will match the following structures/file names
foo.s01e01.*
foo.s01.e01.*
foo.s01_e01.*
foo_[s01]_[e01]_*
foo.1x01.*
foo.101.*

Defaults for two-part TV Show Episode will match
foo.s01e01-02.*
foo_[s01]_[e01-02]_*
foo.1x01.1x02.*

Same with three- or four-part TV Show Episode
foo.s01e01-02-03-04.*
foo_[s01]_[e01-02-03-04]_*
foo.1x01.1x02.1x03.1x04.*

Information from http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=TV_Shows_(Video_Library)#Directory_Structur e_.26_File_Names

;)

[rplumb]

Hi

how does it work with itunes organised folders? I have an itunes folder on my network (Attached to time capsule). in there is all my music, and a 'movies' folder and a 'TV show' folder. each show has its own folder with TV shows.

But everything is showing up under 'movies' and nothing under 'TV shows'?

I spent ages redoing my filenames to work in itunes using metaX, undoing all that s01e03 stuff, don't want to have to go back and do it again.

I'd hope for something like a 'TV shows' type under sources, or perhaps reading the tags on mp4s at least. I assume that on a mac platform, and appleTV users, they would have converted a ton of their content to appleTV/mac friendly formats which will support tagging.

[r0ssar00]

what if a tv show has a colon in it? i've got 2 tv shows with colons in them and neither is recognized automatically. for one of them i moved all the episodes into one folder and forced all episodes in that folder to the series, but only about half were recognized(they all used show.name.s01e01.avi format with : replaced with .). should i use show:name.s01e01.avi or show.:.name.s01e01.avi or something else?

[marcel]

colon may not work an example is CSI:NY or CSI:MIAMI which has a colon works like this CSI_NY_S01E01.av CSI_MIAMI_S01E01.av or csi ny 01x01.pilot.avi...

[nobleach]

This never seems to work for me. It just doesn't seem to do anything after the "Correct every show in this folder?" dialog :(

for me, it gives me a pretty OK or CANCEL button... and then reverts back to whatever Boxee feels like the show is... isn't that the behavior you wanted???

/sarcasm

I'm a huge proponent of a metadata catalog that is user definable. Even after clearing my database and re recognizing all my TV shows, it still can't get over thinking Heroes is truly Prison Break... I actually got bored the other day and did that "Wrong Video" thing 28 times... applied it to the whole folder... and still... it said "cool.... Prison Break it is" I just said, "oh well.... they'll fix it some day or document how someone else can"

[SpaceBass]

i would strongly recommend against using a single folder... boxee bases some of it's recognition logic on the folder structure, in the case of tv shows.

I've noticed that while it does work to have a single folder, Agentlame is right, there is a real benefit to some kind of hierarchy.

When you use the "wrong video" option and correct things, Boxee will ask if you want to apply the correction to the entire folder - something that really comes in handy, especially if you don't have a keyboard handy.

[superbimble]

I have a few Dr Who DVD's that I want to put onto my appletv, to watch through boxee. The problem I have is that I'm not sure how or where boxee pulls it's TV information from the internet.

I know I can't just add the info manually locally (which might be nice as a future enhancement) I have to give it the correct name and series number. Can anyone tell me where boxee looks on the net for this info, so I can look at it myself and work out what I should call my Dr Who episodes to have them recognised properly?

[r0ssar00]

colon may not work an example is CSI:NY or CSI:MIAMI which has a colon works like this CSI_NY_S01E01.av CSI_MIAMI_S01E01.av or csi ny 01x01.pilot.avi...

so i should replace all colons with underscores? eg. CSI_NY.S01E01.avi
in other words: is it all or nothing? ie can i replace *only* colons and leave other periods along or do i have to replace periods as well?

[agentlame]

so i should replace all colons with underscores? eg. CSI_NY.S01E01.avi
in other words: is it all or nothing? ie can i replace *only* colons and leave other periods along or do i have to replace periods as well?

should be just the colons that need replacing.

[erikveland]

for me, it gives me a pretty OK or CANCEL button... and then reverts back to whatever Boxee feels like the show is... isn't that the behavior you wanted???

/sarcasm

I'm a huge proponent of a metadata catalog that is user definable. Even after clearing my database and re recognizing all my TV shows, it still can't get over thinking Heroes is truly Prison Break... I actually got bored the other day and did that "Wrong Video" thing 28 times... applied it to the whole folder... and still... it said "cool.... Prison Break it is" I just said, "oh well.... they'll fix it some day or document how someone else can"BAHAHAH!

This post wins :D

[r0ssar00]

should be just the colons that need replacing.

thanks
a longer message that is almost unreadable

EDIT: if, and when, are you going to show us how to/let us change the regular expression used to parse tv shows?

[r0ssar00]

it worked!

[agentlame]

if, and when, are you going to show us how to/let us change the regular expression used to parse tv shows?

boxee's source is available for download, if that's what you're asking.

(don't you hate that stupid 10 character rule?)

[r0ssar00]

boxee's source is available for download, if that's what you're asking.
almost. in xbmc, you can edit UserData/advancedsettings.xml and define your own regular expressions. i tried that with boxee and it didn't work. is it supposed to work?


(don't you hate that stupid 10 character rule?)
you noticed that, eh?
you could say that i do, but it's not exactly stupid because it (generally ;) ) forces people to leave a significant contribution to the discussion. when you just want to thank someone or tell them it worked, 10 characters is usually too much.

[agentlame]

almost. in xbmc, you can edit UserData/advancedsettings.xml and define your own regular expressions. i tried that with boxee and it didn't work. is it supposed to work?

in guisettings.xlm, i did notice this bit of jazz:

<cleantokens>divx|xvid|3ivx|ac3|ac351|dts|mp3|wma|m4a|mp4|aac|o gg|scr|ts|sharereactor|dvd|dvdrip|hd-dvd|remux|dtshd|ddplus|blue-ray</cleantokens>
<cleanseparators>- _.[({+</cleanseparators>
is this not what you're looking for?



you noticed that, eh?
you could say that i do, but it's not exactly stupid because it (generally ;) ) forces people to leave a significant contribution to the discussion. when you just want to thank someone or tell them it worked, 10 characters is usually too much.
the only time it annoys me is when all i want to say is: "+1" to a feature request.
but otherwise, yeah; people should generally be able to manage 10 letters worth of comment. :)

[r0ssar00]

in guisettings.xlm, i did notice this bit of jazz:

<cleantokens>divx|xvid|3ivx|ac3|ac351|dts|mp3|wma|m4a|mp4|aac|o gg|scr|ts|sharereactor|dvd|dvdrip|hd-dvd|remux|dtshd|ddplus|blue-ray</cleantokens>
<cleanseparators>- _.[({+</cleanseparators>
is this not what you're looking for?
i don't think so. those just look like codecs, file extensions, and (safe) filename seperators(like hello.world.avi or hello_world.avi)
i'm more looking for a way to tell boxee that a particular field is the show name, another field is the season, and a third is the episode.

currently, boxee takes: show.name.S01E01.avi
so the fields to pick out would be show name, 1, 1

i have: Show Name/Season 1/Episode 01.avi
so the fields to pick out would be Show Name, 1, 1
i've got a regular expression for this, i just would like to know where to put it if it's possible.

EDIT: where is guisettings.xlm? i downloaded the source and grepped the tree and couldn't find it. i also grepped the app package's tree and it wasn't there either.

[miskotes]

Defaults for two-part TV Show Episode will match
foo.s01e01-02.*
foo_[s01]_[e01-02]_*
foo.1x01.1x02.*


Why is this not working?

Defaults for two-part TV Show Episode will match
foo.s01e01-02.*

Iso image file name is: Selo gori, a baba se ceslja - S01E01-02 - Bagrence.iso

THE TVDB link: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=85296&lid=7

Boxee resolves this as Episode 1: Bagrence.

Above applies to any two-part/ multi-part tv shows inside my Boxee.

Am I making a mistake or what?

Thank you...