After just upgrading to 2.4.10 64bit I noticed that after converting a file, the series year was suddenly being removed from TV shows and all folders created by the program. This was creating new folders in my destination:
Sample Show (1999)
Sample Show
After downgrading back to 2.4.9 64bit, problem solved
Has this happened to anyone else?
Obviously from an organization standpoint this is maddening.
Apparently, my uninstall of 2.4.10 erased all my old conversation logs. Is there anyway to retrieve them without re-installing and running new reconversions to create the problem?
2.4.9 doesn’t recognize the (1964) and instead treats the entire “Jeopardy (1964)” as the Title.
2.4.10 we’ve added the ability to parse that tile more accurately and extra the premier year so 2.4.10 treats it as
Title: “Jeopardy”
Premier Year: “1964”
This is being done so that it can start matching the information on the internet to accurately which is beginning to be an issue since more shows are being rebooted these days.
Hence you see that your final file renaming has only Jeopardy in the title instead of Jeopardy (1964).
You can easily fix this by using the custom renaming option and include the %showname% (%premiereyear%) in the pattern to recreate the defective 2.4.9 behavior.
It took me some time, but I finally re-updated to 2.4.10 and changed %airyear% to %premiereyear%. However, I’m still getting a destination folder without any (year) Full command below:
E.g. The Cops conversion:
→ is not a movie, so it uses MCEB-TV\%showname%\Season %season%##\%showname% - S%season%##E%episode%## - %episodename%
There’s no premiere year in the renaming pattern so it doesn’t include it in your renamed file.
I think what you want is: %ismovie%<MCEB-Movies\%showname% (%airyear%),MCEB-TV\%showname%\Season %season%##\%showname% (%premiereyear%) - S%season%##E%episode%## - %episodename%>
In older versions of MCEBuddy, it treated the title with the premiere year as just a “Title”. So Medium (2005) would be treated as a Title instead of splitting it up as title → Medium and premiere year → 2005. This was starting to create a problem because increasingly recording software have started including the premiere year in the title and more shows are now reboots and they would often get mixed up or not match at all while trying to match the information. Some sites would use “Title (Premiere Year)” while others would only use “Title”, so you can see how it started to create a problem.
Hence starting 2.4.10, MCEBuddy now parses the title and premiere year and separates them rather than, incorrectly, treating the whole as a single title and the same while trying to matching it with sites. So the renaming patterns need to be adjusted to take into account that the title and premiere year are two separate entities.
If you want to include the premiere year in the folder name, then you’ll have to do it explicitly like:
Aha… Yes, I was looking at the new folder it was creating (without the year) and jumping to conclusions. I’m still a novice here and I truly appreciate you (and everyone) being so generous with your time to help me out! Hopefully this does the trick and gets me back to where I was before. Thank you again.