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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1280905" data-attributes="member: 109222">Not really. There are only very few data that is qualified as &quot;good data&quot;. Adding new series or episodes is no &quot;good data&quot; in TVDB's opinion... This &quot;free&quot; subscription only is for very few people wo are able to add data that is not public available. And it is for a short period of time only. In my opinion this is a marketing &quot;fake&quot; just to keep people adding content... Another really bad behavior, like all the other things that went wrong there in the past. The folks on TVDB are very arrogant, behave like despots and don't respect the work their &quot;customers&quot; have done to the project. Way too often content is blocked or even deleted without any further notice and without any approval if the changes are right or wrong. If one of the &quot;gods&quot; there think it's wrong it is deleted, no matter if you can proof it is correct... Aside this both, TVDB and TMDB are adding more wrong than correct data lately. That's why I mostly create the data for my media as I like them and I'm sure there right. As one example... There is a very long running documentary series in German TV named &quot;Eisenbahn- Romantik&quot;. You may say it's the German &quot;Doctor Who&quot; (in terms of long live)... It has more than 1000 Episodes available and every week there is a new one added. Until some weeks those episodes were in one single season listed... S01E1005 is an issue for many tools as they never could imagine more than a thousand episodes in a single season. Now they decided to separate them by year. Generally this is a very good way to go, if you have a series that has no continuing story as most documentaries are...&nbsp; But instead of adding them as &quot;S1994E01&quot; they still are counting them absolute. So the &quot;real&quot; S1994E01&quot; is named &quot;S1994E87&quot;. Season 1994 is starting with episode 87 not with episode 1 as you may expect. Makes no sense at all as you have something like &quot;S2020E1005&quot; to deal with, what is even worse than S01E1005... I'm doing this as S2020E25 (as it is the 25th episode aired in the year 2020) in my own metadata (.nfo file) and so I have it in my HTPC listed... Texts and graphics most often are missing so I always need to add them myself looking at the TV stations website. Then I easily can change the season and/or episodes numbers as I want them too...&nbsp; So why should I use TVDB as this I can't contribute, even if I wanted too?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1280905, member: 109222"] Not really. There are only very few data that is qualified as "good data". Adding new series or episodes is no "good data" in TVDB's opinion... This "free" subscription only is for very few people wo are able to add data that is not public available. And it is for a short period of time only. In my opinion this is a marketing "fake" just to keep people adding content... Another really bad behavior, like all the other things that went wrong there in the past. The folks on TVDB are very arrogant, behave like despots and don't respect the work their "customers" have done to the project. Way too often content is blocked or even deleted without any further notice and without any approval if the changes are right or wrong. If one of the "gods" there think it's wrong it is deleted, no matter if you can proof it is correct... Aside this both, TVDB and TMDB are adding more wrong than correct data lately. That's why I mostly create the data for my media as I like them and I'm sure there right. As one example... There is a very long running documentary series in German TV named "Eisenbahn- Romantik". You may say it's the German "Doctor Who" (in terms of long live)... It has more than 1000 Episodes available and every week there is a new one added. Until some weeks those episodes were in one single season listed... S01E1005 is an issue for many tools as they never could imagine more than a thousand episodes in a single season. Now they decided to separate them by year. Generally this is a very good way to go, if you have a series that has no continuing story as most documentaries are... But instead of adding them as "S1994E01" they still are counting them absolute. So the "real" S1994E01" is named "S1994E87". Season 1994 is starting with episode 87 not with episode 1 as you may expect. Makes no sense at all as you have something like "S2020E1005" to deal with, what is even worse than S01E1005... I'm doing this as S2020E25 (as it is the 25th episode aired in the year 2020) in my own metadata (.nfo file) and so I have it in my HTPC listed... Texts and graphics most often are missing so I always need to add them myself looking at the TV stations website. Then I easily can change the season and/or episodes numbers as I want them too... So why should I use TVDB as this I can't contribute, even if I wanted too? [/QUOTE]

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