Organizing TV Shows??

**cubsfan61** · October 22nd, 2008, 04:31 PM

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** · October 22nd, 2008, 07:06 PM

all shows in a single folder works great here.

**bbaldino** · October 22nd, 2008, 07:34 PM

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** · October 22nd, 2008, 08:05 PM

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

**cubsfan61** · October 22nd, 2008, 10:41 PM

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** · October 22nd, 2008, 11:31 PM

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** · October 23rd, 2008, 01:38 AM

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** · October 23rd, 2008, 01:57 AM

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** · October 23rd, 2008, 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by agentlame

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** · October 23rd, 2008, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

this is the structure i use... works great.