TV series and episodes

A series is not two hundred films. In All My Movies it is one movie card with a tree of seasons and episodes inside it, so the series takes one line in the list and still remembers which episodes you have watched and where each one is.

The Episodes tab

Open a movie card and go to Episodes. On the left is the tree of seasons and episodes; on the right, the details of whichever episode is selected: season number, episode number, title, plot, original air date and the seen mark.

Getting the episode list from the Internet

Search for the series the usual way — type the title and press Enter. TheTVDB.com is built for television and normally returns the complete list of seasons and episodes with titles, plots and air dates; TheMovieDB.org also knows series. The episode tree fills in by itself. Which source is used is set in Tools › Preferences › Online databases.

When a new season comes out

There is no need to search for the series again. Open its card, go to Episodes and click Update episodes online. The program downloads the episode list from the site the URL field links to — TheMovieDB, KinoPoisk or TheTVDB — and merges it into the card:

• new episodes are added, and the tree opens on the new season;
• episodes you already have keep their titles, video files and seen marks; placeholders such as Episode #5 left by the drive scanner get the real titles, and empty plots and air dates are filled in;
• nothing else on the card changes. Click OK to save.

If the URL field is empty or points elsewhere, find the series with the online search once — after that the button works.

Linking the video files

Each episode can point at its own file, so playback works per episode.

• One at a time: open the file panel and double-click a file to assign it to the selected episode.
• Drag and drop: drop files onto the episode list from Explorer; several at once is fine.
• A whole folder: the Set video files for multiple episodes from folder button matches the files in a folder to the episodes in order — the usual case when a season lives in one folder.

If you catalog from the disk rather than from the title, the drive scanner does all of this automatically: it recognizes S02E05-style names, builds the series and attaches every file.

Working with series in the list

• Quick filter › Show Series lists only the series and hides the films.
• In the main window the series line can be expanded to show its episodes, with the seen marks visible.
• Playlists and copying files both offer to work on series specifically, so you can make a playlist of a whole season or copy it to a tablet.
• Renaming has its own set of episode placeholders — season, episode number, episode title, air date — for turning a folder of chaos into Series\Season 2\05 - Episode title.mkv.