MpTV 2.0 screws up importing when special characters (parenthesis, apostrophes) used. (1 Viewer)

[nhoffman82]

I never had this problem with previous versions, but when it tries to import any episode that has a parenthesis in it, it tries to read it as a series. I have a consistent organizational scheme, my import expression is:
<series>\Season <season>\<episode> - <title>.<ext>
I deselect all of the other expressions, because all of my files fit this format.
Most of them get read ok, if they don't contain a parenthesis or an apostrophe if they do, I get this:
ex:
TV Shows\Ken Burns' The West\Season 1\01 - The People (1500-1806)
In the TVDB, it is listed under season 1 as: 1 The People (1500-1806)
So it should import correctly (it did before mptv 2.0), but instead, I get a message saying it can't find the series "01 the people ". When I go into the Details tab, it's listed as
01 the people (
+ Season 15
- 15x0-1806)
I don't understand why it's not looking at my folder structure, it's trying to interpret the filename before the parenthesis as a series, the first two digits as a season, and the rest as the episode.
If I try to use string replace to replace any ('s with <empty>, it gives me the same problem it just doesn't show the parenthesis.
I cannot figure out how to get this to work, and many of my files are named like this (as they should be, it is listed in thetvdb this way). The same thing happens with apostrophes.

Also ... anytime a series name has a colon, i.e. Civil War: America's Bloodiest Battles, I can only create a folder with the same name minus the colon. Is there a way to get the series to match automatically, it wants me to manually select every series name that has a colon (because I can't name my folder that way). Not that big of a deal, but an inconvenience.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[nhoffman82]

can anyone help me on this? It's very frustrating, and keeping me from using mediaportal at all. I never had the problem with previous versions, does anyone else get this? If I need to give more details just let me know...

THanks

 

[Boiler]

did you try to rename the file itsself? to something like 'showname seasonxepisode title'

if you don't wanna do it manually try naturs tv renamer or this one: tvrename.com - Automatically rename and organise your TV shows, and more.

 

[nhoffman82]

Well it would still give the problem of parenthesis being in the title ... it's not the format that's the problem all my files are parsed correctly ... I suppose I could just rename all files with the parenthesis and apostrophes, replace all ('s with _'s maybe ... not sure if the files would be recognized by thetvdb though, since in the database the titles contain parenthesis and apostrophes. Will keep that in mind though, might just have to auto-rename a bunch of those files. Thanks for your response.