Looney Tunes Golden Collection.

[Bixmen]

Hmmm, not much better, they still all show up with the Episode name "Looney Tunes"

they are divided by season but EVERY single cartoon is named "Looney Tunes"

[dtshifter]

If you name them Looney.Tunes.Golden.Collection.S01.E01 type format they will come up as TV shows. The down side is that Boxee identifies episodes on disc 2 of the collection as season 2 and I can not identify any episodes on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume 2 and beyond sets at all.

Does anyone have a good solution for getting all Looney Tunes cartoons identified correctly? It sure would be nice to use later sets so I can include Roadrunner cartoons that only are in later volumes.

[RoyalEF]

I'd love to see a solution that used the TVDB for Looney Tunes. However, When I go to Identify, the TVDB series name "Looney Tunes (1930)" Show ID:72514, isn't offered. It looks like only IMDB show names exist--and therefore are accessible. I don't understand how TVDB is incorporated into any of boxee's info on the back end--or if it really is. IMDB has many of the shorts as individual films.

But a more generic method would be useful as well.

It would be awesome to organize movies into collections (essentially a "subfolder" on the movie page). Maybe provide Boxee with a file, perhaps predefined in the root of a "boot" labelled share that would have organization structures. This would let you organize already-defined movies under a single thumbnail and title. Individually they would be handled as IMDB entries, but grouped under something for readability and organizational reasons. This would be great with Abbott & Costello movies, James Bond Films, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Aliens/Predator and off course the Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies & Disney shorts of the last century, of which there are probably over a thousand together.

I've tried to solve the Looney Tunes issue (specifically) in a number of ways and nothing is great.

Renaming the Looney Tunes to be episodes belonging to a mismatched indexed IMDB series does pull them out of Movies, but the TV Show listing for them is useless. Especially when compared to the filenames if you've named yours to be meaningful.

The only way to really play them is through the FILES interface, since there you have easy access to the real name and can see the episode name. I also organize them into folders of characters.

I'd love to know a trick to get Boxee to reference the TVDB definition of a series. Granted, TVDB lists amongst seasons as "Specials" and the 4 digit years (1930, 1931...) which is odd. I found if I named the series "Looney Tunes (1930) S1941E40 then it automatically stripped 1930 and used 1941 as the Season. "Looney Tunes S1941E40" resulted in a blank season, episode 40.

Perhaps the goal should be to get a better IMDB definition for Looney Tunes (1930-). I can find a "Looney Tunes Golden Collection (TV)" definition when I go to identify. It does list each episode of the first Volume individually, but the other "seasons" or discs don't show up. I can't find this "series" defined on IMDB or TVDB, although TVDB has a dummy page that says don't create repetitive defintions like this. Perhaps this is leftover from when it was defined on TVDB and is still in the Boxee DB.

[RoyalEF]

With the exception of defining an episode.nfo for each short, I haven't found a solution. Also, even though I can get an nfo for episode to match, I haven't been able to get Boxee to recognize the TBN thumbnail file. However, this means I must generate all the info PER NFO and nothing comes down from TVDB or IMDB.

I cannot get BOXEE to match the TVDB listing for series 72514, no matter what I do.

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&serie...d=480089&lid=7

If Boxee is acknowledging the "match" based upon the tvshow.nfo file it does nothing with it. No details are filled in, no plots, titles, etc or thumbnails. The TVDB listing for this is the best one available, but Boxee simply won't use it. I think it is probably the fact that the SEASON is a four-digit year that trips it up. But unless Boxee looks into it, a large amount of work would be needed to correctly serialize these. (minus thumbnails apparently)

[darcilicious]

But unless Boxee looks into it, a large amount of work would be needed to correctly serialize these.

Have you submitted a bug report? http://jira.boxee.tv

[RoyalEF]

Not yet, but I'm re-orging my whole NAS this week.

I've been playing around with those Looney Tunes titles so much, I need to to a clean test in a new directory and verify the results. Some of my (possibly confused) results I think are because of my repeated changes and manual identify attempts with different TVSHOW.NFO in the same directory and parnet directories and individual episode NFOs. For instance... two episodes in the same directory, no episode NFOs, one generated a thumbnail, the other took on a generic from the tvshow.nfo. I don't know why, but I thik it is just me messing with them repeatedly.

I will log a bug as I'd love to see it solved. And posters on this subject reach back two years, so I know the issue has existed for quite some time.

[RoyalEF]

I opened a ticket for a bunch of series that were having trouble, including Looney Tunes. After some fixes in their copy of the database, they've all been resolved, including Looney Tunes.

TheTVDB.com definition for Looney Tunes is extensive, from 1930 to today. If you match those definitions they will identify. A problem that may affect you is the scraping of a YEAR #### out of the filename before boxee resolves. Since the SEASON # is a year this may give you problems. However I found this format works everytime.

Looney Tunes (1930) S1946E10 Hair-Raising Hare (Bugs, Gossamer, Evil Scientist)
Looney Tunes (1930) S1952E11 Water, Water Every Hare (Bugs, Gossamer)
Looney Tunes (1930) S1954E18 Bewitched Bunny (Bugs 1st Witch Hazel, Hansel & Gretel)
Looney Tunes (1930) S1956E05 Broom-Stick Bunny (Bugs Bunny Witch Hazel)

Every one of them ID'd on a scan with no intervention from me. This is the first time that has happened with Looney Tunes since I bought the Boxee in July.