iPenguin02 5 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Will there ever be an "Identify" button for individual TV Episodes or TV Specials? It would definitely help to find episodes/specials that are identified automatically. Especially if the folder/file structure is not identified by MB3. I had to rename shows that only have 1 seasons from "Show E## - Episode Name" to "Show S01E## - Episode Name" I do not understand the purpose of having to do this. Can anyone shed some light on this? How are the folder and files suppose to be named for TV Specials such as movies, OVA's, etc? I cannot seem to get it to work. I named the folder "Season 00 - Specials", MB3 seems to be picking up the folder as specials however the file name seems to be wrong. My structure looks ike this: "Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone [1989]" "Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku [1990]" "Trigun Movie - Badlands Rumble [2010]", etc. Show Movie ## - Name [Year] That stucture seems to not be picking up at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Read here http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/674-Media-Files-&-Folders-Structure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPenguin02 5 Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 Read here http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/674-Media-Files-&-Folders-Structure I read that already, but it does not cover specials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 For movies, you put specials in a 'specials' folder inside the movies folder. For TV, just create a 'season 0' folder and make sure the special is numbered as it is on thetvdb.com (Using a MediaBrowser numbering format s00e04, 0x12 etc etc). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menissalt 13 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Take your structure but have a separate folder for each movie and then include a specials folder in each movie's folder: Movies/ Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone [1989]/ Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone [1989].mp4 specials/ special1.mp4 special2.mp4 Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku [1990]/ Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku [1990].mp4 specials/ specials1.mp4 specials2.mp4 From my experience you can use the 'specials' folder for both movies and TV shows, you aren't forced to use the "Season 0" folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37029 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Movies also works with an 'extras' folder. That's the xbmc convention so we've adopted that, and our documentation has been updated to reflect it. But specials is supported too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1052 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Redshirt's answer above is the correct one for the op. Look at this page for Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Ball Z Specials Find what you're looking and add the episode number to your file names, e.g. S00E01 Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone S00E14 Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku And for Trigun look at this page: Trigun Specials and name the file:S00E01 Trigun Movie - Badlands Rumble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPenguin02 5 Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 For movies, you put specials in a 'specials' folder inside the movies folder. For TV, just create a 'season 0' folder and make sure the special is numbered as it is on thetvdb.com (Using a MediaBrowser numbering format s00e04, 0x12 etc etc). Take your structure but have a separate folder for each movie and then include a specials folder in each movie's folder: Movies/ Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone [1989]/ Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone [1989].mp4 specials/ special1.mp4 special2.mp4 Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku [1990]/ Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku [1990].mp4 specials/ specials1.mp4 specials2.mp4 From my experience you can use the 'specials' folder for both movies and TV shows, you aren't forced to use the "Season 0" folder. Redshirt's answer above is the correct one for the op. Look at this page for Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Ball Z Specials Find what you're looking and add the episode number to your file names, e.g. S00E01 Dragon Ball Z Movie 01 - Dead Zone S00E14 Dragon Ball Z Special 01 - Bardock, The Father Of Goku And for Trigun look at this page: Trigun Specials and name the file:S00E01 Trigun Movie - Badlands Rumble So i can just use the folder "Specials"? Wish i there was identify button for TV show episodes and movies because i don't like the format that it uses for certain shows. For example Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods is movie 14, If i had to follow the format it'd be S00E24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1052 Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 So i can just use the folder "Specials"? Wish i there was identify button for TV show episodes and movies because i don't like the format that it uses for certain shows. For example Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods is movie 14, If i had to follow the format it'd be S00E24 If you want these videos to be in the same folder as the TV series - then just put them in a "Season 0" folder - it will appear as Specials. And the TVDb specials listing contains more than just movie versions of TV shows - so you're basically stuck with whatever order the TVDb users have created (Battle of Gods would be S00E23). Alternatively you could just move all your DBZ movies into a new folder within your Movies collection and make it into a boxset. And then using the metadata editor you could name and sort them anyway you see fit. But, the movies would then be totally separated from the TV series - which may not be what you're after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 (edited) I believe items in the specials folder are still accessible if they are not named/scraped correctly too so you may be able to name it what you like and edit your own metadata in.... I'm not sure on that as I have never tried it, but you could give it a shot and let us know Edit: just had a look and I'm pretty sure this should be possible but I'd make sure you untick the metadata options when you are done to prevent your changes from being overwritten in the future Edited May 7, 2014 by Vidman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPenguin02 5 Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 I believe items in the specials folder are still accessible if they are not named/scraped correctly too so you may be able to name it what you like and edit your own metadata in.... I'm not sure on that as I have never tried it, but you could give it a shot and let us know Edit: just had a look and I'm pretty sure this should be possible but I'd make sure you untick the metadata options when you are done to prevent your changes from being overwritten in the future Just tried it, didn't seem to help me out at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Just tried it, didn't seem to help me out at allWhy not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37029 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Yea i mean tv specials are pretty flexible. you can put videos in there that follow tvdb convention, or you can do your own. i think what he's looking for is to use his own naming convention but still get online metadata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPenguin02 5 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yea i mean tv specials are pretty flexible. you can put videos in there that follow tvdb convention, or you can do your own. i think what he's looking for is to use his own naming convention but still get online metadata. That is exactly what I am trying to do, but it is primarily because it is in order of what type of TV special it is. the naming standing from the db's are chronological. I group Movies, Holiday specials, Skits, Etc. all separately, but in the special folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackZ 16 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yea i mean tv specials are pretty flexible. you can put videos in there that follow tvdb convention, or you can do your own. i think what he's looking for is to use his own naming convention but still get online metadata. I want to set up extras/specials for my TV series which won't correspond to information contained on TheTVDb, and I don't want the scraper trying to correlate info from TheTVDb with those files. What's the right way to do this then? Say I make an extras folder under a TV series folder and put a file in there called "Making Of.mkv" without any SXXEXX in the name. Will the auto scraper ignore trying to fetch for this file, but I can still access it via the MB3 clients? And set custom meta data I want to? Also, can you make extras under the series folder and also make extras under the season folders too? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37029 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I want to set up extras/specials for my TV series which won't correspond to information contained on TheTVDb, and I don't want the scraper trying to correlate info from TheTVDb with those files. What's the right way to do this then? Say I make an extras folder under a TV series folder and put a file in there called "Making Of.mkv" without any SXXEXX in the name. Will the auto scraper ignore trying to fetch for this file, but I can still access it via the MB3 clients? And set custom meta data I want to? Also, can you make extras under the series folder and also make extras under the season folders too? Thanks! yes just lock them in the metadata manager. specials under seasons, good idea, but don't want to spring the api change on our app developers right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xltread 0 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) +1 - would love to see support for specials/extras under seasons. This is the one thing that is tripping me up with my TV library when trying out emby as a backend for Kodi. I've got Extras folders underneath the season of the show they came from, rather than a single Extras/Specials folder for the whole series. Those files show up in Kodi / Emby as actual episodes in that season, and have effectively tricked the "Hide Watched" filter for those seasons. While I like the option to get at the season-specific extras from within that season (using an Extras context menu - like the VideoExtras kodi addon), I don't necessarily want extras like Gag Reels, Outtakes, Table reads, etc. to be treated as first class episodes that slip into the Next Up Queue for each series. My typical folder structure: Series Name/ Season 1/ s01e01.m4v s01e02.m4v Extras/ Extra File.m4v Second Extra File.m4v Season 2/ s02e01.m4v s02e02.m4v Extras/ Gag Reel.m4v Thinking about working around it by relocating to a structure like the below, but that will be a lot of file shuffling: Series Name/ Extras/ Season 1/ Extra File.m4v Second Extra File.m4v Season 2/ Gag Reel.m4v Season 1/ s01e01.m4v s01e02.m4v Season 2/ s02e01.m4v s02e02.m4v Thanks for your consideration - I'm really liking what I'm seeing from emby otherwise! Edited December 9, 2016 by xltread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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