MRELCEE I have given up on this app - I appreciate the developer's efforts but he seems to have a lot of difficulty parsing text and matching it to the thetvdb.com's search and XML interface. That is what this app is all about is text parsing. I don't really intend to slam the author, because he's at least banging out code and trying while I have taken the path of being a software user and no longer develop.. But I think he needs to rethink the design of this app. I think the trouble comes in with trying to pass command line parameters for shows around from a controller app to helper apps.. Perhaps too much dependence upon third party perl modules that don't work exactly like is needed for parsing - when i was taking CS courses I spent most of a year just learning how to tear text lines apart and parse them for information in Pascal and C usually. Compared to those two languages, Perl is a breeze for doing text parsing - it's what the language was designed for. I have been using iFlicks, which is quite incredible at pulling names and season/episode numbers out of file names without having to format them perfectly and remove spurious punctuation. If it does not get a hit, you can manually edit the fields to show name, episode# and season# and let it search again from your input and if thetvdb.com or imdb has it in their databases it finds it and pulls artwork every time. iDentify is 100% hit or miss, and continues on writing the output file when it cannot find data for a file.. It has trouble with shows that have numbers in the series name. I truly did want this app to work out and show financial support. But from his comments on his wordpress blog, i feel he's not truly in charge of things and needs to step back and rethink how it should work. Instead I've purchased an app that has it all together now. But I really wish the author success at pulling this program together. (Version 20090905) |