Auto-scraped TV show TITLES lead to bad SORTING.

[#1]

Which Firmware:   All SMP firmwares, and HUB firmware 3.00.28

What exactly happens:   

The naming format the HUB and SMP use to TITLE TV shows is:

SeriesName Season X - Y EpisodeName.

If Y is a SINGLE DIGIT (1-9) then they are sorted wrong.  Like this:

Episode 1

Episode 10

Episode 11

...

Episode 19

Episode 2

Episode 20

Episode 21

...

Episode 3

Episode 4....

The EPISODE NUMBER needs to be a TWO-digit number (with a leading zero, if necessary) so that the SMP / HUB sort them properly.

What would be BETTER, though, is if it actually sorted by the EPISODEID in the XML.

For anyone that wants to re-do their existing XML in bulk, read this post for a how-to:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Firmware/How-does-WD-recognize-TV-Show-Firmware-Version-3...

What are you doing:  Letting the Hub or SMP "Scrape" metadata for TV shows.

What hardware:  This affects both the Live-SMP and the Live Hub the same way.

Does it happen every time:  Yes.

Does it happen with previous firmware:  With the Live-S, yes.  With the Live Hub, doesn't apply since the prior version didn't support this feature.

Power Cycling & Factory Restores have no affect.

[#2]

same problem with musics files list

[#3]

Hi TonyPh12345

I'm interested in how to bulk update the XML to work around this problem. Could you please repost your link - it's broken for me - it seems to be linking to the edit page for your post which gives me a permission denied error.

Thanks in advance.

Fuzz

[#4]

Correct link:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Firmware/How-does-WD-recognize-TV-Show-Firmware-Version-3...

[#5]

Ooops!  Sorry, ya'll...  I've updated my original link, too...

[#6]

No problem. Thanks to both of you. I tried it last night on 2TB of TV shows. It worked perfectly

[#7]

still not working for me

[#8]

any updates on when this issue will be resolved by the firmware rather than using the above solution supplied by Tony?

[#9]

I would expect WD to fix this issue, since the cause is built into the very system they sold.  Using the default media information provider and the default settings shows an incorrect sort order.  I believe WD has the responsibility to fix this issue.  

[#10]

by RobSpook yesterday

I would expect WD to fix this issue, since the cause is built into the very system they sold.  Using the default media information provider and the default settings shows an incorrect sort order.  I believe WD has the responsibility to fix this issue.  

 Rob

I 100% agree that they need to fix this issue but as of yet it is still in "New" status and no comments have been added by WD to confirm if they are looking at this or not. I guess that they are more involved in trying to resolve the USB3 dropping and playback stutter issues before resolving something like this.

Regards

Tommy