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Support / Re: Question about TV episode titles
« on: August 05, 2009, 08:25:21 pm »QuoteAm I doing something wrong, or was it built this way on purpose?
Neither. I suspect the program works that way because for other sources a search is required to get the selected episodes. In the case of TheTVDb, I believe it's API only facilitates the retrieval of information for all episodes at once. So, hopefully, the plugin can be be changed so this step is skipped. In the meantime, you might find it less annoying to update the entire series, rather than selected episodes.
Similarly, the IMDb plugin should first be run on the series record. It will add all existing episodes and their URL's. Then, when individual episodes are updated, the URL is used and a search is not necessary. Searching for episode titles is highly ineffective, even if the name is not "Pilot."
When I'm bringing in a new series, I go through the following steps. Import the series. Do a TVDB import on the overall series itself, then an IMDB import on the overall series. Then, I do a TVDB import on each season, followed by an IMDB import on that season, which fills in the various episodes of that season. As you said, sometimes the TVDB import gives an IMDB link, which speeds the process along. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to happen often enough.