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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1181608" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.If you name the series folder exactly as the series is named on TVDB it will give the best chance of correct match. You also can use foreign series names if you can't get an unique match for the series. As example: before the .nfo and MKV- tag support was build into MP2 I've used Swedish series names for a few series also my preferred language is German. Metadata will still be loaded in your language nevertheless. Year numbers are not helpful, indeed they are lowering the match rate a lot, excerpt for series where the year is part of the &quot;official&quot; name on TVDB. Sadly the TVDB API did not provide a search option for years, so the year can not help identifying a series. It only prevents series from being identified at all. This is something MP2 can not change at all. It is a weakness of TVDB.Episodes names must contain season and episodes numbers in an easy to recognize way. S01E01 is easy, 101 is not... You can use season folder if you like. But they are not necessary, it is working with or without exactly the same. Series name in episodes name did not help. It is ignored, so you can add the series name, if you like, but as told it did not help. Specials has to be named as &quot;Season 0&quot; to be recognized properly. No other name (like &quot;Specials&quot; or &quot;Extras&quot; or so) is recognized at all.But all this is completely irrelevant if you use .nfo files (as known from any other HTPC software excerpt for MP1) that can be generated by a lot of tools (tmm, Ember, MKV-Buddy,...) and/or Matroska Metatags (similar to the well known ID3 tags for music files) for your series. I always have a 100% perfect match this way, no matter if it comes to series or movies....And I have 22.000++ episodes. Not a single one is missing this way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1181608, member: 109222"] Hi. If you name the series folder exactly as the series is named on TVDB it will give the best chance of correct match. You also can use foreign series names if you can't get an unique match for the series. As example: before the .nfo and MKV- tag support was build into MP2 I've used Swedish series names for a few series also my preferred language is German. Metadata will still be loaded in your language nevertheless. Year numbers are not helpful, indeed they are lowering the match rate a lot, excerpt for series where the year is part of the "official" name on TVDB. Sadly the TVDB API did not provide a search option for years, so the year can not help identifying a series. It only prevents series from being identified at all. This is something MP2 can not change at all. It is a weakness of TVDB. Episodes names must contain season and episodes numbers in an easy to recognize way. S01E01 is easy, 101 is not... You can use season folder if you like. But they are not necessary, it is working with or without exactly the same. Series name in episodes name did not help. It is ignored, so you can add the series name, if you like, but as told it did not help. Specials has to be named as "Season 0" to be recognized properly. No other name (like "Specials" or "Extras" or so) is recognized at all. But all this is completely irrelevant if you use .nfo files (as known from any other HTPC software excerpt for MP1) that can be generated by a lot of tools (tmm, Ember, MKV-Buddy,...) and/or Matroska Metatags (similar to the well known ID3 tags for music files) for your series. I always have a 100% perfect match this way, no matter if it comes to series or movies....And I have 22.000++ episodes. Not a single one is missing this way. [/QUOTE]

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