Date-Based Episode Matching Hit and Miss

[Akki]

I'm having a hard time getting certain shows (and sometimes just certain episodes of shows) to match correctly based on date. Usually, for episodes of shows this year, if Filebot doesn't use the right episode, it uses episode 20x14 (based on 2014). But not always. It seems to do fine with, some shows, like Conan, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Late Late Show. However, it has problems with The Tonight Show and sometimes WWE Raw. Examples:

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[COPY] Rename [C:\Users\Akki\Downloads\Wrestling\WWE.Raw.2014.01.13.avi] to [C:\Users\Akki\Wrestling\WWE Raw\Season 20\WWE Raw - 20x14.avi]

However, a week later, it decided it knew the right episode:

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[COPY] Rename [C:\Users\Akki\Downloads\Wrestling\WWE.Raw.2014.01.13.avi] to [C:\Users\Akki\Wrestling\WWE Raw\Season 22\WWE Raw - 22x02.avi]

This wasn't the case of the episode being added to the TVRage database in the meantime. There have been episodes there for at least the first two months worth of shows since the start of the year. Now they are up to April.

Similarly, the episode from this past Monday, does this:

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Skipped [C:\Users\Akki\Downloads\Wrestling\WWE.Raw.2014.01.20.avi] because [C:\Users\Akki\Wrestling\WWE Raw\Season 20\WWE Raw - 20x14.avi] already exists

And the only reason that episode exists is because I put a dummy file there to prevent me having to track down episodes that were incorrectly renamed to that one later.

Here's what I get for The Tonight Show:

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[MOVE] Rename [C:\Users\Akki\Downloads\TV\Jay.Leno.2014.01.21.Adam.Sandler\Jay.Leno.2014.01.21.Adam.Sandler.mkv] to [C:\Users\Akki\TV\The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\Season 20\The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - 20x14 - Madonna, Chris Colfer, Joe Perry.mkv]

This is using TheTVDB (TVRage doesn't have any episodes from this season). And this is after I put in an override to make "Jay.Leno" match "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", non-strict (strict was giving me "Unable to match files to episode data" errors). I've tried clearing the cache, and I can confirm that the episode is there on TheTVDB, under what seems like the correct date.

I've tried clearing the cache, I've tried doing it from the GUI as well as the command line, and the same thing happens. I'm using the latest jar.

[rednoah]

The data you need is simply not in the database, thus filebot can't know which episode was aired on which date.

You can try this to see what data filebot has available for matching:

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filebot -list --q "WWE Raw" --format "{sxe} [{airdate}] {t}"

It seems this show is not updated very well:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid ... 2397&lid=7

You can take care of that if you have a bit of time on your hands to enter the missing data.

You can make filebot not allow potentially bad matches by not setting -non-strict.


EDIT: I see what you meant, apparently the websites shows some sort of date. I assume since title is not set, it'll just display the lastModified date of the database entry, but the Airdate field is not set, so filebot doesn't know the airdate.

[Akki]

The data you need is simply not in the database, thus filebot can't know which episode was aired on which date.

You can try this to see what data filebot has available for matching:

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filebot -list --q "WWE Raw" --format "{sxe} [{airdate}] {t}"

It seems this show is not updated very well:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid ... 2397&lid=7

You can take care of that if you have a bit of time on your hands to enter the missing data.

You can make filebot not allow potentially bad matches by not setting -non-strict.

I use TVRage for WWE shows. http://www.tvrage.com/WWE_Raw/episode_list/22

I use TheTVDB for pretty much everything else, including The Tonight Show.

[rednoah]

Try r2017

[Akki]

Try r2017

Perfect, thanks.