Any tips for naming for daily tv shows?

[Vonture]

Hey everyone,

Having a problem with getting shows like The Daily Show or The Colbert Report to be recognized other as TV shows rather than movies and be labeled correctly... Typically the name would look like: "The.Daily.Show.10.29.2008.DSR.XviD-GNARLY.[VTV].avi" when I download them. I could theoretically convert it to season episode format but thats a bit of trouble since there are so many of them, any tips for a simple name change that would get it recognized properly?

Thanks

[iBog]

The best way to name TV shows is:

TITLE.S##E##.EXTENSION.

Use _ for spaces in the title. So, this could be something like:

The_Daily_Show.S13E140.avi (for the October 29 episode with Barack Obama)

Check out TheTVDB for current season of The Daily Show at http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=71256&seasonid=30126&lid=7

I'm not sure if the Boxee scrapper uses the date for TV shows (it uses the year for movies). Instead of S##E## what happens if you use:

YYYYMMDD
DDMMYYY
MMDDYYY

[Vonture]

The best way to name TV shows is:

TITLE.S##E##.EXTENSION.

Use _ for spaces in the title. So, this could be something like:

The_Daily_Show.S13E140.avi (for the October 29 episode with Barack Obama)

Check out TheTVDB for current season of The Daily Show at http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=71256&seasonid=30126&lid=7

I'm not sure if the Boxee scrapper uses the date for TV shows (it uses the year for movies). Instead of S##E## what happens if you use:

YYYYMMDD
DDMMYYY
MMDDYYY

I'll try the

YYYYMMDD
DDMMYYY
MMDDYYYY

bit and see if that does it. I know that I could change it to the proper season and episode number format, its just going to be troublesome for this type of show.

I'll get back to you with the results. Thanks.

[iBog]

With daily shows, I think the air date is more useful than the season and episode number. I'm really interested to know what works. However, this seems to me the same issue with XBMC (which Boxee is based on).

[iBog]

It would appear that the ability to do a search by "Air Date" was just added to thetvdb.com on October 5. I don't think used the naming convention I suggested will help.

http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/API:GetEpisodeByAirDate

We'll have to wait for Boxee to support this new API when looking up media.

[Vonture]

It would appear that the ability to do a search by "Air Date" was just added to thetvdb.com on October 5. I don't think used the naming convention I suggested will help.

http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/API:GetEpisodeByAirDate

We'll have to wait for Boxee to support this new API when looking up media.

Ah, sounds good.

[erikveland]

Can we get some insight into what Boxee is looking for when it reads names? Some shows it picks up some seasons of but not other even though they are sorted and named the same way. Some shows it doesn't pick up at all (Invader Zim), and some it think is Movies.

I know it HATES if you try and group your movies together in a folder (Documentaries, Monty Python Movies, Comedy etc.).

I'm just so annoyed at how there seems to be no rhyme or reason to anything it does. I've tried renaming troublesome shows in different ways (adding names to filenames, adding the proper S0XEXX formatting of episodes, etc. etc.)

Why can't we just select a "Media Type" (a ala iTunes) by source. Or for that matter actually WORK with Metadata instead of this archaic file-structure-that-never-actually-gets-properly-recognized-no-matter-what.

Organising by file structure is so 1996.

Just give us some sense and direction please!

[agentlame]

Can we get some insight into what Boxee is looking for when it reads names?

this has been discussed to such an extensive degree... please search the forums.