Sorry my bad, it is right here…
Trello
The reason I said I liked it better by the way is because it would fallback to the show value if it has not been set at the episode level. Would save a little time if you have a show that has multiple episodes of the same length. TVDB has it so you have to add it to Every. Single. Episode. 
Me too, Goodreads I assume?
Same, but hopefully this gets implemented soon over at TMDB. BTW you are able to just login to Trello and support this feature.
Yes, but GR doesn’t have enough stats. I obsessively use Bookly.
Changing to only one database will make maintaining a TV series easier at least.
On one side TVDB has a tendency to add shows as a season because they think it makes sense (sometimes it doesn’t) and that annoys me, so that part will be better.
But TMDB doesn’t have a great database for some things and I can’t stop complaining about how they mix genres of TV. (Action & Adventure, Sci-fi & Fantasy, also no Horror, Romance or Thriller for TV). Also every time I want them to change something for locked shows (like some old anime that had a new season announced) it takes months for them to answer.
I too was excited for the runtime update. It would be nice if we VIP could change the runtimes (with approval of course, because people are trolls) without the need of TVDB or TMDB.
Have you brought it up on their support forum?
Yes, and they only said that you can search for the tags and there is no update on that planned.
On Trakt, we can use the TMDB tags to set specific genres if needed. We do that with the Superhero genre for example.
As for Action & Adventure and Sci-fi & Fantasy I agree that they should be split as they do mean very different things. But that would be a TMDB thing.
Edit: Justin beat me to it.
So is it possible to do that to the other tags that are genres here that we can’t use as genres there? (Like Horror, Romance, Thriller and Suspense)
That would solve one problem.
I forgot about the way TMDB handles genres differently than TVDB does. But if the additional genres are picked from tags than that would not be an issue to me.
Now that would be an incredible feature! I want my All Time Stats and 30 Day Stats to be as accurate as possible so the ability to change the runtime (with moderation to avoid the trolls like you said) would be awesome!
I encourage sending your feedback to TMDB on the episode runtimes feature. I think that would be a huge help to Trakt and a bunch of other apps that use TMDB too!
This! I don’t even look at Trakt stats for TV. There just isn’t any point.
Are those 4 tags the main genres that are missing on TMDB (for TV shows)?
I sent an email to TMDB to ask them the whereabouts about this. According to the Trello board, the feature has been in development since February. If I have an update, I’ll let you guys know.
Comparing to trakt Game Show, History, Holiday, Horror, Music, Romance, Special Interest, Suspense and Thriller aren’t genres there, but are tags. Sporting Event doesn’t have a tag and Home & Garden is separated on the tags.
But yes, the most important are those 4: Horror, Romance, Thriller and Suspense.
Nice, I posted on the forums there and Trello answered that this feature is almost done so that’s great.
Oh sweet, that would be amazing if this feature gets released soon. It should be an easy Trakt update one TMDB makes it available in their API.
I pushed some updates today for the TMDB <> TVDB comparison tool. View it at https://trakt.tv/transition/tmdb/updates. The page is sorted with the most popular items first. Once a show is switched to TMDB as the data source, it won’t show up on this comparison page anymore.
To view a specific comparison, click the “TMDB Comparison” link in the left sidebar from any TV show summary page. If the show already uses TMDB, there won’t be a link. If we don’t have comparison data yet, it indicates a refresh is needed first.
We compare using the season and episode counts to give an initial baseline. Click the + to expand a season and see the individual episodes (number, title, air date). All of these are linked to TMDB and TVDB as well, so you can quickly jump to those databases. I thought about doing deeper comparisons, but season and episode counts are the minimum I think we need to get started.
I don’t have any automatic TMDB switchover in place yet, that will come later when we get more of a sense how things are looking.
New TV shows are imported using TMDB now. I’ll update the support docs to reflect this.
Cool, working good for me.
Edit: Never mind just got a 500 error code, it was working great though.
What do we do if a show is done and the tool does not say it is.
For instance… https://trakt.tv/transition/tmdb/updates?trakt_id=144572 can be switched over, any episodes that are on TVDB now that are not on TMDB are either added too early or will need deletion anyway. (I maintain the data for that show.)
Also what about shows that have a wrong link between TVDB and TMDB?
Page working again, there was a bug with one of those scenarios you mentioned with having an invalid ID. Looking into that more now.
A support ticket would be the best option and we can manually move it over to TMDB. Hopefully we can automate some of the switchover, like in this case since TMDB has another season and episode, that is ok since all the rest are on TVDB. Specials are going to be the hardest to deal with and I’m guessing will almost never match up.
I think this is what cause the 500 error. I’m planning to do some other maintenance tasks to help detect invalid ID references too.
Actually I am referencing this
https://trakt.tv/shows/lego-star-wars
TVDB combined 5 shows and several shorts together. TMDB has it correctly separated and but the shows are linked to TVDB’s faulty listing.
