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<blockquote data-quote="MJGraf" data-source="post: 1164510" data-attributes="member: 17886">Yep, we won't be able to parse TVDB-IDs because they are not distinguishable enough.For series we would also search for the IMDB-number. Even if it is not common or not useful, it doesn't hurt... (but I need to have a look (a) whether we have IMDB-ID for series at all in our MIAs [EDIT: Confirmed it is in the SeriesAspect] and (b) if so, how we treat series vs. Episode IMDB-ID - IIRC I already had to do with this question and we decided only to store the series-IMDB-ID. Need to look into the code...)But the most difficult thing is to distinguish between Series and Movie. When there is no &lt;movie&gt; tag and no &lt;tvshow&gt; or &lt;episodedetails&gt; tag in the file, there is no way to find out locally whether the IMDB-ID belongs to a series or a movie (at least if a MediaSource is added with both categories: movies and series so that both, the NfoMovieMDE and the NfoSeriesMDE are applied). But we need this Information to find out whether we store the IMDB-ID in a SeriesAspect or a MovieAspect. This means, once we have found an IMDB-ID, we need to look up online at IMDB to find out what it is. And since an online look-up take a lot of time, this behavior should only kick-in, when we are not able to read the data locally in XML-form.Let me think about it...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MJGraf, post: 1164510, member: 17886"] Yep, we won't be able to parse TVDB-IDs because they are not distinguishable enough. For series we would also search for the IMDB-number. Even if it is not common or not useful, it doesn't hurt... (but I need to have a look (a) whether we have IMDB-ID for series at all in our MIAs [EDIT: Confirmed it is in the SeriesAspect] and (b) if so, how we treat series vs. Episode IMDB-ID - IIRC I already had to do with this question and we decided only to store the series-IMDB-ID. Need to look into the code...) But the most difficult thing is to distinguish between Series and Movie. When there is no <movie> tag and no <tvshow> or <episodedetails> tag in the file, there is no way to find out locally whether the IMDB-ID belongs to a series or a movie (at least if a MediaSource is added with both categories: movies and series so that both, the NfoMovieMDE and the NfoSeriesMDE are applied). But we need this Information to find out whether we store the IMDB-ID in a SeriesAspect or a MovieAspect. This means, once we have found an IMDB-ID, we need to look up online at IMDB to find out what it is. And since an online look-up take a lot of time, this behavior should only kick-in, when we are not able to read the data locally in XML-form. Let me think about it... [/QUOTE]

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