Shows missed in Finding & Organising

Hi again Steve.

Just noticed that CSI is not being picked up in the Finding and Organising tab. The episode was in the Missing tab. I tried manually renaming the file so that it was "CSI S09E01.avi" and it still didn't pick it up. I manually copied the original file (with all its ".hd.xvid.somecapper" stuff) to the CSI season 9 folder, then ran the renamer tab and it picked it up straight away.

I was thinking it might be a limitation due to the title being only three characters long or all caps?

I also have a show called "All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music" - the original files are usually named something like "All You Need Is Love S01E06 - EpisodeName.avi" - this doesn't get picked up either.

This was on Alpha 9 - haven't managed to update since then.

Thanks for all the hard work mate.

There are no limitations due to name length or capitalisation. Which CSI series is it? All the CSI entries in thetvdb seem to be "CSI: Something", so it'll have the same problem as "All you need is love: The story of..".

There's a requirement when doing a "find and organise" that the full show name is in the filename. So, if its "CSI: NY", then "CSI NY" will have to be in the filename (it ignores punctuation and spaces). When doing the rename, its assumed that if it's in the folder, it's the right show, so it's picked up OK in that case.

A workaround would be to edit the show and manually set its name so that it's just "CSI", not "CSI: NY". The downsides are that it'll rename all your episodes to have just "CSI" in their filename, all the places that the show name appears in the program (e.g. My Shows, When-to-watch) will be just "CSI", and if you download both "CSI:NY" and "CSI:Miami", then both will be called "CSI" and there's no guarantees it'll pick up the right one when doing a find&organise.

A possible solution would be for me to let you specify, for each show, a list of "alternate names" that would be looked for when doing a find&organise.

A workaround would be to edit the show and manually set its name so that it's just "CSI"
The one I'm talking about is "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" & I had already changed the name in My Shows to just CSI - it's the only one I watch, so I don't care about the other ones and names getting mixed up etc.

A possible solution would be for me to let you specify, for each show, a list of "alternate names" that would be looked for when doing a find&organise.

That may come in handy. I thought the idea of the missing check first was to minimise what you are searching for. In that case I would have thought a best match on show name would be the way to go as you are working from a known target list. We can always remove it from the list if the match is wrong. Maybe as a future development functional idea you could add a right click option for found & unmatched files for a Manual match?

It was due to a small bug. When doing a Find&Organise, it wasn't using your custom name. It was using the real show name instead. This is fixed in the version I've just uploaded.

I'll still have a think about some sort of right-click option, as well as the alternate names thing.