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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew H" data-source="post: 817450" data-attributes="member: 56239">I'd mentioned earlier how this program takes liberty in placing the tvdb Season number into the Series field in the MP database.&nbsp; Also, it will not do a lookup to the tvdb unless you have the show: 1) scheduled to record AND 2) the episodeNum field is empty for those matching programs (tv show names) in the MP database.&nbsp; I may not be saying this exactly right but this line (included in my attached file) is the key to making it work:With this I blindly purge the episodeNum field and episodescanner sees what shows I want to watch and begins looking for them at tvdb... Notice that I also have lines to modify tv show names to what the tvdb is calling them.&nbsp; I've attached both my config and a batch file I call to run the episodescanner.&nbsp; I think there was a debug option in the release: run_debug.bat would be helpfulI hope my attachments will help you as mine's been working for months!PS the reason I'm singling out America's Got Talent, This Old House, and The This Old House Show is there are data in the guide I receive from mc2xml which is reasonably accurate and I prefer to leave their episodeNum fields unaltered.&nbsp; Also, there's often no other info (like episode name) that I can use to poll tvdb for any more accurate season/episode data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrew H, post: 817450, member: 56239"] I'd mentioned earlier how this program takes [U]liberty[/U] in placing the tvdb [I]Season[/I] number into the [I]Series[/I] field in the MP database. Also, it will not do a lookup to the tvdb unless you have the show: 1) scheduled to record AND 2) the episodeNum field is empty for those matching programs (tv show names) in the MP database. I may not be saying this exactly right but this line (included in my attached file) is the key to making it work: With this I blindly purge the episodeNum field and episodescanner sees what shows I want to watch and begins looking for them at tvdb... Notice that I [I]also [/I]have lines to modify tv show [I]names [/I]to what the tvdb is calling them. I've attached both my config and a batch file I call to run the episodescanner. I think there was a debug option in the release: run_debug.bat would be helpful I hope my attachments will help you as mine's been working for months! PS the reason I'm singling out America's Got Talent, This Old House, and The This Old House Show is there are data in the guide I receive from mc2xml which is reasonably accurate and I prefer to leave their episodeNum fields unaltered. Also, there's often no other info (like episode name) that I can use to poll tvdb for any more accurate season/episode data. [/QUOTE]

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