Ability to create Kodi Parsing nfo to facilitate switching between TMDB and TVDB easily #9134
Rouzax
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It even works if both URLs are in the nfo, that way it doesn't matter which scrapper you are gonna use as it will always pick up the right show.
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Currently, Medusa has the option to store
tvshow.nfo
metadata for shows. When storing only thetvshow.nfo
Kodi will not pick up the episodes because it will not look at the online scrapper any more.Example from Medusa
With the turmoil happening with TVDB I would like to switch to TMDB as Kodi scraper but that results in a lot of misidentified shows.
To fix this it would be helpful if Medusa had the option to generate
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4103090/106116051-c1681080-6151-11eb-9e33-9a5d803b5ef1.png)
tvshow.nfo
using Parsing nfo.This means that it only needs to create a
tvshow.nfo
with the URL to the show of the respective info provider.Either TVDB or TMDB.
I did a test with 3 shows
TVDB without nfo file and
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4103090/106115360-ff186980-6150-11eb-8419-7c1e2018f53f.png)
Forever
is indexed wrongTVDB with nfo files and now
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4103090/106115409-0a6b9500-6151-11eb-8c54-44ff24d984ab.png)
Forever
is picked up correctly and the first index is a lot fasterTMDB without nfo files and now
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4103090/106115461-1bb4a180-6151-11eb-83a0-7afe3e84bf8b.png)
Camping (US)
is picked up wrongTMDB with nfo file and now all is picked up and again it is faster.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4103090/106115503-253e0980-6151-11eb-85b1-5a2660722127.png)
The used nfo files are these:
tvshow_nfo_files.zip
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