TVDB Episode 0 & Manual season edits

signe

03-10-2009 14:48:58

At first I thought this was a general problem, but after more looking, it's actually related to manual season edits. I have a merge rule for House E01-E02 (because it was a single episode). That's what causes the behavior below. Removing the Merge rule reverts the episode list to "6 E00"s followed by the normal episodes. Re-adding the merge rule replicates the behavior.

TVRename doesn't fully understand/utilize the episode numbers presented by TVDB. For instance, in its current state, House S6 shows up like this:


0
0
0
0
0
0
1 Broken (1) 2009-09-21
2 Broken (2) 2009-09-21
3 Epic Fail 2009-09-28
4 The Tyrant 2009-10-05
5 Instant Karma


TVRename sees this:


0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Broken (1) 2009-09-21
8 Broken (2) 2009-09-21
9 Epic Fail 2009-09-28
10 The Tyrant 2009-10-05
11 Instant Karma


... which messes things up for a number of reasons, including that it sees one more "Episode 0" than is in the list. (TVRename sees 7 episodes as 0, TVDB only has 6)

sstteevvee

03-10-2009 15:46:40

I'd suggest that the data on thetvdb is screwed up and needs fixed :) Looks like there's already a post on their forums about it, too.

But you're also right, in that TVRename doesn't properly use the episode number information from thetvdb. I'll have a look into it when I get some time.

signe

06-10-2009 05:52:12

No argument that the data's broken, but since TVDB's a publicly editable site, things like that are bound to happen... especially on series with lots of contention.