Specials

ChoccyHobNob

27-11-2008 01:18:07

Hiya,
First post, first time I've been stuck on how to do something.

How does TVRename handle "Specials"?
TheTVDB uses S00Enn for special episodes so I have all specials in a "Season 0" folder named accordingly so it matches, however TVRename doesn't seem to pick them up at all.

sstteevvee

27-11-2008 12:09:03

It depends on how you want to organise the specials. In you case, you have them as a "season" of their own, i.e. you have a "specials" folder. This currently isn't supported, but due to popular demand I will be adding this feature soon. There's a bit of discussion about it on the thread here.

If you want them merged into a season, and treated as regular episodes, then edit the show on the "My Shows" tab, and turn on "Specials count as episodes". So, if the show was aired: Episode 1, 2, 3, Special, 4, 5 .. TVRename will turn the special into episode #4, and bump all the following episode numbers up by one. This is useful for shows like Mythbusters, where specials are often counted as regular episodes by the release groups, though they get listed as specials on thetvdb.

fatboyau

15-04-2009 00:19:38

How do I get them to be normally picked up and renamed then?

24's season 7 prequal "Redemption" for instance. I tried several naming systems (s07e00 redemption, 24-redemption etc.) but TVR doesnt pick it up, I even manually renamed it to what TVR wanted to rename it to, and it was being detected.

Bug perhaps?

Flain

15-04-2009 21:46:37

How do I get them to be normally picked up and renamed then?

24's season 7 prequal "Redemption" for instance. I tried several naming systems (s07e00 redemption, 24-redemption etc.) but TVR doesnt pick it up, I even manually renamed it to what TVR wanted to rename it to, and it was being detected.

Bug perhaps?


i'm seeing this behavior too, but not just on specials. Tonight i decided to clean up some of my stuff and moved some files to the correct folders tvrename was expecting and then named the files eg "showname s05e01.avi". I then ran tvrename over it again and it wouldnt detect them under renaming tab, and still reported them as missing when i rescanned on the missing tab. This is with the latest alpha build from the forums, haven't tryed the same with the old version.