lists of episodes

Hey sstteevvee, great job on this program, it's incredibly useful.

Would it be possible to add in the ability to enter ranges of episode numbers for the rules section? For example I want to skip episodes 1-114 of The Colbert Report.

Also along these lines, It'd be nice to be able to add a batch of episodes that aren't being detected by the program. Maybe there is a way to do this, and I'm missing it. The show/files in question are 'Naruto Shippuuden' (found it on tvdb! woo!), and they're named like so: "[DB]_Naruto_Shippuuden_073_[57312971].avi". Problems are probably: the release group being at the front, along with the hash code, and being numbered sequentially instead of sXXeXX. This seems to be common practice with fansubbed anime, which is apparently listed on TVDB, unlike TV.com. You've probably got some mad regex stuff going already though, so if you don't want to screw it up, I totally understand.

EDIT: I just realized that colbert report and the daily show are not being found because they are organized by air date, not episode number. that would also be nice, but again offers more complexity to finding the episodes.

I'd like to see this feature too, although I'm only trying to avoid 10 extra rules (ie, I want to ignore eps 1-11) rather than 113.

Done in the latest version! Both "Ignore" and "Remove" rules can have either a single episode, or range (first and last) specified.

<3 you steve.

the ignore works great! It really cut down the list on my missing tab.

I noticed the 'sequential numbering' option next to the notification area option, and decided to test it out.

I'll post a screenshot of what it gave me, if I can, but it basically took one episode and tried to copy it with the names for the whole season's episodes. With the Colbert Report, for example (after the ignore), it took "TheColbertReport.9.17.08.DSR.XVID-SYS.[VTV].avi" (actually episode 116) and wanted to copy it to the folder renamed as "The Colbert Report - S4E115 - Rev. Peter J Gomes.avi" ---> "The Colbert Report - S4E129 - Oliver Stone.avi" (the first episdoe not ignored up to the most recent episode). The other episodes are almost all there, but were not picked up. The same thing happened with the sequentially (not date) ordered Naruto Shippuuden.

It's close, though!

Good to hear it works

The "sequential numbering" is the feature you need for Naruto, but it is most likely broken in 2.1. The old tv.com data had that "overall episode number" information there, but I need to figure it out for myself with this new thetvdb data.

The idea is that if Season 4 episode 10 is the 58th ever episode, then a filename with "58" in it will match and be renamed to s04e10. This only kicks in if it can't find anything that looks like a season+episode number in the original filename.

I'm going to fix the sequential numbering thing in 2.1 soon, as well as making it a per-show option. It has a tendency to be over-sensitive on picking up shows sometimes.

The other thing on my ideas list is to look for the airdate in the filename, and use that for episode matching. That would be ideal for something like The Colbert Report.

ah, so it was there all the time, and I just never noticed it.

maybe you could expand the idea to having it search for a variety of information to determine what episode it is. S/E#, Sequential#, Air Date, but also TItle ... and um ... other stuff. it would certainly add more complexity to the searching, but would also add quite a bit in ease-of-use.

also, a manual add/rename function would be helpful for when all else fails. (tell me it's not yet another pre-existing feature that I don't know about! )

Sequential numbering has been fixed, and is now a per-show option. Also note that it only (for now) applies to finding missing episodes - not renaming ones already in their folders.

The manual rename/find idea is a good one - I've added it to my to-do list.

I'm going to make it so that users can specify their own matching patterns for pulling the season and episode numbers out of a filename, which will allow it to work with any unusual styles out there (similarly with defining their own naming styles to rename to). It also means less work for me, as I don't have to keep up with making it work with _everything_. The more styles I add, the more chance for the automated system getting it wrong!

Let me know how sequential matching goes on Naruto. It won't work on Colbert Report, though. That needs the yet-to-be-written date matching thingamy.

well in messing with the sequential numbering earlier, I lose my naruto episodes (easy enough to replace, thankfully), so I re-downloaded the most recent one and tried this with that. At first, with its original name, in my default dl directory, it showed up in both the 'Missing' and the 'Finding and Organizing' tabs, to be moved to the right folder (not foldered by season), but with the wrong episode # + title.
Moved it to the proper folder and removed the misc. stuff (releaser, various punctuation) from the filename to just 'Series - SeqNo.avi', and it still appeared in missing, but not in finding and organizing. (SeqNo being its sequential number, of course.)
I manually renamed it with its S/E No. and title, and it did not show up under missing, and had a 'watch' option with the episode listing.

OK.. I'll have a good look at it when I get some time later this week. Its a feature I put in for one show I had ages ago with sequential numbers, and then I haven't used or properly tested it since.

The sequential matching only works for finding&organising, not on the renaming tab (for now). If you rename it manually with the S/E number, it won't show as missing - since its there - but the renaming tab should then suggest a new name for it.

well I just noticed that it seems to be wanting to match the episodes 1 to 1 now, but the renaming is off.. for some reason it's wanting to rename episode 60, which is supposed to be S03E07, as S03E15-16.. does it take the rules into account with the sequential numbers? That's my (probably wrong) guess of where this would go haywire.

I've found and fixed a couple of bugs related to the sequential numbering. One was counting specials when it shouldn't have, and the other made it mis-count when you had merged episode rules. If you have sequential numbering on, you'll now see in the episode guide an overall count beside each episode name.

Grab the latest version, and let me know how it goes.

Sorry I took so long to get back to you on this- the sequential matching is working beautifully for me. Now if only theTVDB would stop changing their numbering of episodes...

I grabbed beta4, and noticed the 'Filename Processors' option... is this what I would need to get it to notice files with air dates? how would I do that and/or is that option available yet?

Good to hear its working well.

Air date support still isn't in it (it is on my list, though).. The filename processors are only for finding season and episode numbers in the filename.