Absolute episode numbers

[samo_yea]

bleach works fine for me so i know it is not a TVDB.com problem. have you varified that absolute is the selected sorting method?

Yes. I have selected the absolute sorting method, in the db is saved "absolute" as selected sorting method. Is something else that might be wrong?

[trillex]

To start with: I'm a newbie at this but I have been searching all around for a solution for my issue without finding it - so please don't hesitate to shove me about a bit.

I'm, like so many others, trying to add in Naruto in a proper fashion. I've done everything this thread has suggested thus far and made sure that Absolute was selected. I made use of Mavoc's expression which adds my other animes (with less than 100 episodes) just perfectly. I've kind of boiled it down to the way I named my files, or at least I think that's what it must be. I've practically done so it's called "Naruto - XXX" i.e. "Naruto - 022". for episode 22. This gives me the issues that it thinks that episodes starting with 0 is "Special", 1 is Season 1 and 2 is Season 2 etc.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Mavoc]

i have naruto the same way, my absolute expression only gets the season number from the folder(Absolute 1) so i'm not sure why it isn't working unless you didn't put it as the first expression in you list. other then that, try a test parse while only having that exp enabled and see what happens

Originally Posted by samo_yea

In the db is stored this:
Series ID: 74796
Season index: 1
Episode index: 173
Composite episode ID: 74796_1x173

Is something wrong with my parsing?

your parsing is perfect, it should work, maybe the skin doesn't support absolute sorting if that is possible

[trillex]

Originally Posted by Mavoc

i have naruto the same way, my absolute expression only gets the season number from the folder(Absolute 1) so i'm not sure why it isn't working unless you didn't put it as the first expression in you list. other then that, try a test parse while only having that exp enabled and see what happens

My problem was not putting it first. I thought it'd go through all of them and find the one that fit the best.

Works wonders now, thanks!

[ductic]

Originally Posted by samo_yea

Yes. I have selected the absolute sorting method, in the db is saved "absolute" as selected sorting method. Is something else that might be wrong?

It's the same for me I believe. I made sure all episodes are parsed as season 1 and then selected Absolute ordering but still only episodes belonging to the old "season 1" get its information correct.

With "Download Episode information for the whole series" enabled I get Season 2,3,4 etc.. but no episode will match that.

[tahngarth]

I use a utility/script called tvrenamer (first result in google). You'll still have to do something along the lines of \Bleach\Season 1, and I believe have it all in a folder named Anime. Once you do that though, running this app will connect to anidb.net and look up the episode title and rename the file, optionally leaving the detected group name on the end.

So for instance it might turn this made up example:

anime\bleach\season 1\[gg]_Bleach_183_[3344535].avi
into
anime\bleach\season 1\Bleach - 1x183 - Episode Name Here [gg].avi

Two caveats: Some command line options are needed to really work correctly, unfortunately it seems my box has went down at home so it'll be friday before I can see what it is. Secondly and unsurprisingly it get's screwed up on files that have a number in the title of the show, like Code Geass R2. For this series I had to take the R2 out of the file name and put the file into a \anime\Code Geass\Season 2 directory.

So now that I've got everything set up I just drop my .bat file in the folder with the episodes, and any time I put a new file in the folder I just run the bat file, it detects that there's a new file to change (and it will update old files if needed) and prompts for rename, and it's done.

Not quite as simple as using the regex filters, but I have an awful time getting those working.

Edit: Here's the contents of my .bat file I put in every directory
tvrenamer --reversible --include_series --gap=" = "
pause