2023-11-10, 04:35 PM
For those who've not encountered this much: there are a few edge case TV shows out there where they were broadcast as one 22 minute episode, but because they're built from multiple independent shorts popular metadata sources like TVDb and TMDb consider each short to be its own episode.
Which raises all kinds of havoc when you're just a simple nerd ripping a cartoon DVD box set and the only solutions that tend to pop up online are "name it some monstrosity like Animaniacs - SO1E01 - S01E03"
It would be wonderful if there's already a solution for anthology-style shows like this. Heck, IMDb has it right. Their episode listings put each of the three shorts as the episode title, but since Amazon closed that particular API cookie jar it's not a metadata option. I'm crossing my fingers that, like anime, there's a hyper specific knowledge base out there, I just haven't met the right person to be like "Oh, yeah, you gotta add Tommy's plugin repository to be able to download it."
Which raises all kinds of havoc when you're just a simple nerd ripping a cartoon DVD box set and the only solutions that tend to pop up online are "name it some monstrosity like Animaniacs - SO1E01 - S01E03"
It would be wonderful if there's already a solution for anthology-style shows like this. Heck, IMDb has it right. Their episode listings put each of the three shorts as the episode title, but since Amazon closed that particular API cookie jar it's not a metadata option. I'm crossing my fingers that, like anime, there's a hyper specific knowledge base out there, I just haven't met the right person to be like "Oh, yeah, you gotta add Tommy's plugin repository to be able to download it."