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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew H" data-source="post: 756250" data-attributes="member: 56239">Thanks for the quick response!&nbsp; If I'm correct, episodescanner is placing the Season Number into SeriesNum and Episode Number into EpisodeNum... The MP xmltv plug-in populates only EpisodeNum with what it's getting from my (mc2xml) EPG listing which (I suppose based on various broadcast reasons) often doesn't match theTVDB and nothing in my SeriesNum field.&nbsp; In fact, I can use MySQL Workbench 5.2 to access the MP database and sort on SeriesNum - if there's anything there it's because episodescanner populated it.So to answer your question: if there's nothing in SeriesNum and something in EpisodeNum it's from my EPG.&nbsp; And I don't have a way to &quot;not&quot; import numbers using mc2xml and the xmltv MP plug-in I'm currently using.How hard would it be to code an option to lookup the S/E if no SeriesNum exists instead of if no EpisodeNum exists?UPDATE: I think your philosophy is to &quot;do no harm&quot; by filling in only vacant fields.&nbsp; In my case I've found your data is accurate (looking downstream for TV-Series) while mine often is not - that's why I'd like to use what you obtain from theTVDB instead of what I (may or may not) already have!&nbsp; YES, it's a change in philosophy as you'd be overwriting EPG data with yours, but that's the reason for the option <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrew H, post: 756250, member: 56239"] Thanks for the quick response! If I'm correct, episodescanner is placing the [I]Season[/I] Number into [B]Series[/B]Num and Episode Number into EpisodeNum... The MP xmltv plug-in populates [I]only[/I] EpisodeNum with what it's getting from my (mc2xml) EPG listing which (I suppose based on various broadcast reasons) often doesn't match theTVDB and nothing in my [B]Series[/B]Num field. In fact, I can use [I]MySQL Workbench 5.2[/I] to access the MP database and sort on SeriesNum - if there's anything there it's because episodescanner populated it. So to answer your question: if there's nothing in SeriesNum and something in EpisodeNum it's from my EPG. And I don't have a way to "not" import numbers using mc2xml and the xmltv MP plug-in I'm currently using. How hard would it be to code an option to lookup the S/E if no [B]Series[/B]Num exists [I]instead of[/I] if no EpisodeNum exists? UPDATE: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]I think your philosophy is to "do no harm" by filling in only [I]vacant[/I] fields. In my case I've found [I]your[/I] data is accurate (looking downstream for TV-Series) while mine often is not - that's why I'd like to use what you obtain from theTVDB instead of what I (may or may not) already have! YES, it's a change in philosophy as you'd be overwriting EPG data with yours, but that's the reason [I]for[/I] the option :)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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