Orphaned / inconsistent entries after thetvdb changes (1 Viewer)

[vpupkin]

Hi,

Let me start with saying that MyTVSeries is awesome - it really is! I would be completely lost in my huge pile of documentaries without it and its thetvdb access. But there is one thing that seems to happen to me once in a while, and that is restructuring / renaming / reordering etc of series on the thetvdb side (NatGeo documentaries are notorious for this). So here is what happens: I import, say, NatGeo Magafactories 2011x55 with "TitleA". Everything is good. Then someone merges this series with, say, Ultimate Factories, and removes the first one. I still have the episode as originally imported, even though it is now an orphan.

Even worse, if I import NatGeo 2011x55 with "TitleA", and someone changes order / moves things around, so now 2011x55 is a different episode - say, "TitleB" and my episode is now #56, so MyTVSeries will update it the next time. Now I have an inconsistency - episode which is actually "TitleA" content, but listing says "TitleB" as I obviously didn't rename the episode and it's still #55 in the filename.

Hopefully I am still making sense I don't know how much can be done without some support from thetvdb API, but I would like to have a tab in the configuration screen that would list DB changes comparing with the last import. This way, I can see if the change is affecting numbering and can go and rename / relocate files accordingly.

Is it feasible? Without some kind of support for this, local episode collection can get out of sync with thetvdb if (when) it changes...

 

[ltfearme]

In the Import Wizard in configuration, you can select 'Title' for episodes based matching online. So if you have the correct episode title in your filenames it will match regardless of the episode number changes online. If people change the titles as well, then your out of luck.

 

[vpupkin]

Thanks, this should work in some of the cases. But as you mentioned, sometimes titles change, or in some cases, there are no titles in the filenames (can be renamed, but still). Is it possible that when MyTVSeries updates the series info (anything), and new information is not the same as the one in database (i.e. non-trivial update), then this info is output in some kind of log, optional?

This way it would be possible to process the log with a script and see if there is something of interest and take manual action. With the exception of extra logging (optional), there would be no impact to the plugin itself...