I just wanted to share some info on how I solved an issue I had with my tv shows folder, and possibly get an easier solution from you.
I have a structure like
and so on. If I directly add the somewhere folder to xbmc I get strange results from scrapers, because 0-9 and A-B and so are seen as show titles. To be able to keep just one source in xbmc, I had to use unionfs to mount everything to a single folder, so now I have
and this works.
But... is there any simpler way to tell xbmc to ignore the first level of subfolders? Possibly without using nfo files for every single show folder. If it's possible to use a nfo file to exclude a folder, that would be a solution.
I have a structure like
Code:
/somewhere/0-9/Show1/Season1/Episode1
/somewhere/0-9/Show1/Season1/Episode2
...
/somewhere/0-9/Show2/Season1/Episode1
...
/somewhere/A-B/ShowA/Season1/Episode1and so on. If I directly add the somewhere folder to xbmc I get strange results from scrapers, because 0-9 and A-B and so are seen as show titles. To be able to keep just one source in xbmc, I had to use unionfs to mount everything to a single folder, so now I have
Code:
/somewhere/tvshows/Show1/Season1/Episode1
/somewhere/tvshows/Show1/Season1/Episode2
...
/somewhere/tvshows/Show2/Season1/Episode1
...
/somewhere/tvshows/ShowA/Season1/Episode1and this works.
But... is there any simpler way to tell xbmc to ignore the first level of subfolders? Possibly without using nfo files for every single show folder. If it's possible to use a nfo file to exclude a folder, that would be a solution.