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Dadeo:
I admit I am new to the program, but I am at a loss how to use the Scan folder/file function properly.

In the case of TV Series, sometimes the scanner puts all the file paths for all the episode files into the file path field for the existing Series record instead of putting one file path in each episode record.  Is that what it is supposed to do?  Sometimes it puts them in separate records for each Episode but then it does not group them by series! The only thing I can see is that it depends on how the files are named. If the filenames do not have spaces, they seem to all go in the one record (and it takes forever!). If they have spaces, then they go in separate records, but never in episode records (this is much faster)!

In the case of Movies with more than one file, it tries to create a separate movie record for each file, instead of putting both files in the File Path. Again this may be because there are spaces in the filename.  I don't know!

Please help!

nostra:

--- Quote ---In the case of TV Series, sometimes the scanner puts all the file paths for all the episode files into the file path field for the existing Series record instead of putting one file path in each episode record.  Is that what it is supposed to do?  Sometimes it puts them in separate records for each Episode but then it does not group them by series! The only thing I can see is that it depends on how the files are named.
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The file scanner does not fully support episodes right now, so it will put all the file to the main movie record in the most cases. The scanner has a complex algorithm for detecting where to put files and how to combine them, but it is certainly not perfect. I plan full episodes support in file scanner and some additional scan options for future versions.

How do you name your files? Could you post some examples that produce different results?

Dadeo:
Usually I name my files as follows:

...\Title\Title.S02E01.episodename.avi

File scan puts all these in the File Path of the main Series record with a vertical bar | separating each file.

However, I forgot to set the Preferences to leave the Titles Formatted as they are and now I have to change them all back manually or else File Scan thinks it is a new series (most often where the series name starts with 'The')  :-\

Some of the files are named:
\Title\Season\Title - 1x02 - Episodename - details.avi

File scan puts these into separate series records, not episodes, even if there is already a Series record with the Title name.

I hope that helps.  If you need any more detail let me know.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---The scanner has a complex algorithm for detecting where to put files and how to combine them, but it is certainly not perfect...
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Your programming skills never cease to amaze me, but I have a hard time seeing how this ever will be perfect. I think you have the "right" to dictate to users a file naming convention to be used for files to be recognized by the program. Hopefully it would be flexible, but surely you need some degree of consistency. And users need to know what will be recognized. Some will have large collections named in a manner that doesn't comply, but it's not very difficult to rename files using a batch renaming utility (or a "home-made" batch file).

In the case of episodes, there are so many different ways they may be organized and named, it's probably easier for all if you decided how it should be done. I like Dadeo's ..\Title\Title.S02E01.episodename.avi, especially if, with that format, your routine could consistently identify titles—whether the episode files are in a separate sub-folders or not.

nostra:

--- Quote ---Your programming skills never cease to amaze me, but I have a hard time seeing how this ever will be perfect. I think you have the "right" to dictate to users a file naming convention to be used for files to be recognized by the program. Hopefully it would be flexible, but surely you need some degree of consistency. And users need to know what will be recognized. Some will have large collections named in a manner that doesn't comply, but it's not very difficult to rename files using a batch renaming utility (or a "home-made" batch file).
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You are right, it is impossible to include all naming conventions, but it is possible to enable users to setup how PVD should parse the file names.


--- Quote ---In the case of episodes, there are so many different ways they may be organized and named, it's probably easier for all if you decided how it should be done. I like Dadeo's ..\Title\Title.S02E01.episodename.avi, especially if, with that format, your routine could consistently identify titles—whether the episode files are in a separate sub-folders or not.
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This format will be certainly supported.

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