Comments on: Sapphire Supported TV Show File Naming Conventions

By: rcrh

rcrh — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:18:14 +0000

I agree with Matthew; it would be great if we could write our on REGEX to support different naming convensions.

I don’t leave the series name in each of my files. Why duplicate HEROES in each file if they are all in a folder called HEROES?

So, my files are like this.

Heroes/season 1\s01e01 - name of episode.avi

I have a REGEX expression that works for this. I know ’cause its been running on XBMC for a couple of years.

So, why not give us an option to use your defaults or add a custom expression?

Thanks in advance.

By: gbooker

gbooker — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:24:14 +0000

Sorry I didn’t reply. Handling of “01x?? Miniseries” has been fixed in the source. It will be in the next release.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:44:05 +0000

Thanks for replying gbooker.

Unfortunately that site is not helpful in this instance, I checked out that link previously and that is how I figured out the other specials I have. Razor was obviously no problem.

I think the problem is that the title is listed as “01x?? - Miniseries”.
It has no number in front of it to tell Sapphire what number in the season the show is.
Most are listed in this format “2 :01×02 - Water”
This is probably why it isn’t being displayed as a regular episode.

I think either the ?? or the numbers in front of the title “Miniseries” are preventing it from being displayed as a special.

here is the web address with the season one info.
http://www.tvrage.com/Battlestar_Galactica/episode_guide/1

By: gbooker

gbooker — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:12:43 +0000

Steve, try following the steps for a series special for the miniseries, that might work:
How do I Identify Series Specials?
Also, the Razor ep is explicitly mentioned there.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:14:36 +0000

Sapphire appears to be one of the best program ever made or at least it will be. I have a specific question about naming TV shows. I have tried all the naming conventions you list both here and on the manual page (for specials) but I can not get the Battlestar Galactica Miniseries to show up on the TV show list.

On Rage it is listed as episode 100 or S01E?? or 1×00. I’ve tried these plus about 30 other episode numbering names and the result is one of three.

1) Sapphire scans through as if it has identified it correctly. Then does not show it when you check the TV show folder.

2) Gives the only option of This is Not a Movie.

3) Askes you to pick from Battlestar Galactica Movies. Which is how I have it set now but would be nice to have it with other episodes.

I had no problems with other TV shows or even specials ie Razor.

Any help would be appreciated as I can’t find any info anywhere else.