Sapphire needs better recognition of movies by file name

[scstraus@…]

I have to rename about 25% of the files I have in order to get them properly recognized by Sapphire. Most of these are very simple things that can be handled with a 5 minute change to the text parsing. One example is that is won't regonize a tv show with a naming convention

Tv.show.name[s01][e02]

Basically any time it sees the text s[number]e[number] separated by any non alphanumeric characters (maybe maximum of 3), should be accepted as a tv show.

I've had a lot of similar problems recognizing movies that have additional information after the movie name, such as

The.Good.Soldier[Xvid]Torrent_Spy(Best Quality).xvid

Actually I don't know if that above one will parse correctly or not, but about 20% of the movies I have, I have to strip out periods or information after the file name. In almost all cases the extraneous information is separated by a special character that is not a . or a _ or a - or a space (I think those characters should all be treated as a space in the name.

Of course, ideally the parser should try a number of different ways of looking at the filename to find a match. These above ideas can be added to the existing ways.

[aquajon@…]

I'm seeing the same issue with one of my tv shows. Filename is "Band of Brothers - Part 1 - Currahee.avi" However the get tv show info importer does not recognize it as a TV show. TVRage will respond with the correct information when queried (from the website) with the full filename.

An option to tag a file as TVShow or Movie, or to manually enter the IMDB number or TVRage number (is there one?) would be nice. Then any files that Sapphire didn't recognize we could manually (with the GUI, not the CLI) associate it to a known IMDB or TVRage entry and then Sapphire could import the poster, etc.

[gbooker]

Read: http://appletv.nanopi.net/19/sapphire-supported-tv-show-file-naming-conventions/ We will not be changing the naming conventions for TV shows. Every single group we have ever seen conform to one of these conventions.

Leaving ticket open only for the portion about extra data at the end of a movie title

[scstraus@…]

Mine is acting very strangely now, when it encountered the following names it gives me only the option "<This is not a TV Show>", and doesn't list any show names:

boston.legal.s04e09.hdtv.xvid-dot.[VTV].avi boston.legal.s04e10.hdtv.xvid-xor.[VTV].avi my.name.is.earl.311.hdtv-lol.[VTV].avi my.name.is.earl.311.hdtv-xor.[VTV].avi

I went and renamed one of them boston.legal.s04e08.avi and it started just skipping it but never added it to the tv shows menu. I tried renaming it again boston legal s04e08.avi and it still just skipped it. I tried to tell it to reimport metadata, and it still just skips it.

[gbooker]

tvrage is down. Until it is back up, no metadata can be fetched on TV shows. They are going through a server upgrade (which it said a few hours ago, now it gives a 404 error on its main page).

[anonymous]

oh thank god, I thought I had really botched things up. You guys are awesome at support! I've never seen anyone reply so quickly. Would be good if there was some error message if it couldn't contact tvrage, but now I know so I won't be surprised next time.

[scstraus]

Most stuff imports fine now, but it still doesn't put file data in for these ones (I can see them if I go to the movies directory, but not in tv shows:

Mythbusters.S05E25.Air.Plane.Hour.HDTV.Xvid-FQM.avi MythBusters?.S05E24.WS.DSR.XviD-SYS.avi

They play fine if I click on them through sapphire->Movies directory but it never recognizes them as tv shows.

[anonymous]

Sorry, there shouldn't have been a ? after the MythBusters? on the 2nd one.

[scstraus]

For whetever reason it just refuses to import any mythbusters no matter what I name it or how I organize it. About 10 episodes and it won't take any of them, no matter if I clear metadata or tell it to get metadata for that file.

[gbooker]

As stated, quite clearly in the manual among other places, Sapphire use  TVRage for its data. There is no 5x24 or 5x25  there; so perhaps you should add the missing data (assuming the season/ep is actually correct).

[antifuchs]

scstraus: Check out the tvrage site for MythBusters?. I guess you (like the release groups, and me in ticket #33) are naming MythBusters? episodes with the last season being 5, while tvrage thinks that it's in the middle of season 6 by now.

[scstraus]

That would explain it. It would be nice if it wasn't so tied to what tvrage says. If it asked me which show it was and then simply put it in the list without episode information. The episode information isn't nearly as important as just having the episode shown in the list of possibilities.

Here's another couple - regognizes "Heroes - S01.E05.avi" as a movie

completely ignores the movie "Juno.Axxo[2007]DvdRip?.Xvid.Eng.avi

I'd assume it doesn't like the Axxo in the last one. What would be good would be if it searched tvrage by each word singly, adding each as it goes. In this example searching first for just "Juno", then searching for "Juno Axxo". In this case Juno is the correct movie title.

Thanks for keeping this open so I can attempt to help you improve this.

[scstraus]

Also wouldn't regognize "Juno[2007]DvdRip?.Xvid.Eng.avi". Didn't work until I made it just "Juno.avi"

[gbooker]

Replying to scstraus:

regognizes "Heroes - S01.E05.avi" as a movie

Read my first reply.

You should also read this http://appletv.nanopi.net/manual/overriding-metadata

[Crissov]

So the current matching is this:

<show name> S<season number>E<episode number> <episode title><anything>.ext

-?S[0-9]+E[S0-9]+

<show name> <season number>x<episode number> <episode title><anything>.ext

-?[0-9]+x[S0-9]+

<show name> <season number><episode number> <episode title><anything>.ext

-[0-9]{1,3}[S0-9]{2}[\. -]

I wish it also supported folder style:

<show name>/<season number>/<episode number> <episode title><anything>.ext

/S?[0-9]+/E?[S0-9]+-

or

/[0-9]+/[S0-9]+-

or

/.*[0-9]+/[\(\[\{]?E?[S0-9]+[\)\]\}]?-

When Sapphire thinks a TV show file is a movie or vice versa we should be able to tell it, not only say “this is not a movie” (or “… TV show”). We should also be able to say “this is a movie, but none of the suggested ones”.

[gbooker]

Crissov, patches welcome.