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Testing_Business:
First of all I LOVE the program! Keep it free!

My issue is that I want to import episodes and series from an Excel file. Basically I have a list of files that are episodes of a Business Program that is not available on IMDB etc.

So I have created a list of names and paths. I also want to add a 'season/episode number' to the list of files eg season 1..2..3 episode 1...2...3.

How do I do this? I cannot find the episode field in the config of the excel plugin for importing? There is one for the text import plugin but it doesn't work properly and I don't know how the text should be formatted to allow only 3 fields (Title,path,Season/episode) to be imported.

I don't know if it is a requested feature, but a method of manually assigning an episode/season to an existing movie would be very useful. I believe at the moment you can only 'change' an existing season/episode number. Cut/Paste of a group of movies from the 'root' to a sub group of a season would also do the same thing!

rick.ca:
Welcome to the forum.


--- Quote ---First of all I LOVE the program! Keep it free!
--- End quote ---

If the program were priced at what it's worth, none of us could afford it. Besides, I think nostra is much happier receiving your generous donation. I'm kidding—I'm sure he appreciates your LOVE as well. ;)

AFAIK, the only thing you can do is import the series (i.e., one record) with all the episodes included in the path field (separated by a "|", I assume). After import, select Movie - Organize files by episodes. This will create an episode record for each file. Unfortunately, this provides no means for importing details about the episodes, which is probably what you want. Besides, if you have the media, the file scanner should do this much for you automatically.


--- Quote ---I don't know if it is a requested feature, but a method of manually assigning an episode/season to an existing movie would be very useful.
--- End quote ---

Yes, it would not be as efficient in this scenario as being able to import episodes directly, but perhaps a reasonable compromise. If there were the ability to attach (and detach) movies to other movie records to create series, we could do without the ability to import episodes. The same feature would also be useful for the more general purpose of grouping movies (it has been requested before).

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---After import, select Movie - Organize files by episodes.
--- End quote ---

Oops. It seems the episode records must exist for that function to work. So that's of no use. :-[

Testing_Business:
Yep. I tried that suggestion before and couldn't get it to work!

I think because of the issue that new episodes cannot be created without an existing epid record. So I would have to manually create episodes and then 'organise files' to those episodes. Too much hard work for 126 episodes!


The only way I thought I could get some automation into the import process was using the 'get movie information from text file' plugin. But I believe that plugin doesn't quite work or I don't have enough information on how it works to get it to work!

For example with the plugin I have deselected all options apart from: Title, Path, Episodes. If I could get this information imported I assume the records episodes/seasons would be created, and I would only then need to use 'organise files' to assign paths to the episodes.

Now I don't know how to format the text file with my movie/episode information. I would appreciate if anyone could give me a text example that I could import so the correct fields are filled and epid records created!

eg Apprentice, c:\tmp, 1, Episode 1, Sales (title of episode)
    Apprentice, c:\tmp, 1, Episode 2, Creativity

I want that to be Title, Path, Season Number, episode Number, Title of episode. How do I do this using the text file import plugin?

 

Testing_Business:
Another way would be to go into the database and use search and replace to add epid numbers!

Any idea on how to do this? Is the database file encrypted? Could you suggest a database editor that I could use to edit the data manually? ???

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