I'm using the filter flag to indicate a preference for a recently released TV show (7 days) with a fallback for older shows if the search comes up empty. I'm actually using the same filter as documented (viewtopic.php?t=2127):
I found an occasion where Filebot will find a match for media released recently, but it couldn't get a match on the episode:
CmdlineException: Failed to match files to episode data
In these circumstances Filebot appears to give up rather than execute the fallback. Is this the expected behaviour? If so, is there an alternative filter I could use that would continue the search?
Since filter expressions allow arbitrary code, an infinite number of alternative filters are possible.
The first step would be to figure out why your existing filter doesn't work for the episode data in question, and then modify your filter to account for that.
My first guess would be that no airdate data for any episode has been entered yet.
Since you don't include logs or at least a TheTVDB link for the series in question, giving a meaningful answer is impossible.
Input: /volume1/Downloads/Patriot.S01E01.WEBRip.X264-RARBG/Patriot.S01E01.WEBRip.X264-RARBG.mp4
Group: [tvs:patriot 2017] => [Patriot.S01E01.WEBRip.X264-RARBG.mp4]
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Auto-detected query: [Patriot (2017), Patriot]
Fetching episode data for [Patriot (2017)]
Fetching episode data for [Patriot]
Apply filter [age < 7 || !model.any{ it.age < 7 }] on [17] items
No matching episode: Patriot.S01E01.WEBRip.X264-RARBG.mp4
CmdlineException: Failed to match files to episode data
Finished without processing any files
Failure (°_°)
When I remove the filter it works, but because I'm using Filebot as an automated task that 90% of the time will be working with recently aired media I'd like to retain the filter if possible.
So the problem I see is that there are 2 totally different databases between TVDB and IMDB.
I am currently trying to sort out a whole lot of kids tv shows.
The problem is that the files are in the IMDB structure but Filebot (and others) use TVDB.
i.e the tvshow shows 2 episodes at the same time back to back. This then gives you one files. the season has 39/40 episode.
IMDB shows 20 files TVDB shows 39/40 files.
I hope this helps
Since you don't include logs or at least a TheTVDB link for the series in question, giving a meaningful answer is impossible.
