Don’t hesitate to ask for help @justin
Would gladly be a Trakt content moderator.
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These might have been answered already but I have a few questions about shows in my watchlist that I was going was to raise tickets to migrate over
- I have a few shows where the only difference is that TVDB has an entry for the next season as an undated 1 episode season (which TMDB normally deletes on me), can I still raise a ticket to migrate the show over? Being in my watchlist I’ll add the correct data into TMDB when it becomes available
- I have a few shows that the only difference is the specials, (Brooklyn Nine-Nine has podcasts listed on TVDB as specials), can I raise a ticket if it is only the specials different?
Yes on both accounts.
Does TMDB have rules about unaired future episodes? I sometimes see TMDB is up to date except for some episodes that haven’t aired yet. I think that still is a match though, just curious.
Specials are going to be tough to match up, so we’re not super concerned with those. It would of course be best to update TMDB to not lose watch data if possible. On TVDB I’ve seen “movies” associated with a show added as specials which I don’t think TMDB allows.
Rather than continually raising a ticket for shows to be migrated over, is it possible to get a submit report button on the TMDB comparison page when a show is ready to migrate?
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We posted our official announcement about Trakt’s transition to TMDB.
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We will working on some tools to more quickly help with the transition. Better ways to notify us and most likely a moderator role for trusted users to help move things over too.
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How are split episodes going to be handled? TVDB tends to have some season finales split in two episodes, whereas TMDB have it as 1 entry.
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@justin I have a problem. Someone messed up VICE News Tonight on TVDB. They broke it up by year instead of seasons. There’s 4 seasons. The first 3 aired on HBO the current 4th season is on VICE TV. TMDB is correct.
Trakt now has the correct 4 seasons and the seasons broken up by year. Can you make the transition now and get rid of all of the seasons with years?
If TMDB allows it, adding a new episode there would be best. If they don’t, then we would likely remove the episode on Trakt. We’d also adjust the runtime of the single episode so that any watched time isn’t lost. I’m not really sure of a better way to handle it.
@JBaby_9783 I switched VICE News Tonight over and removed the bad seasons. In the future, please send open a support ticket so we can track the request better. Thanks for the heads up!
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Thank you!!! Sorry for posting in the wrong place.
I have just registered another 25 shows with a separate ticket for Take Over TMDB.
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Just want to follow up on this.
I have a feeling we are out of luck.
How do I link the shows page to its tmdb page. I added a new show to tmdb a couple of days ago but it’s still showing up as no tmdb Id on its trakt page.
If you’ve added a new show, it should already be linked to tmdb, because you should have imported it with the TMDb ID.
How do you link a TVDB and TMDB show? The following show was missing TMDB info, but after I imported the TMDB id it created a separate show instead of linking them together.
It’s not looking good…
Would us having the option to directly add episodes to Trakt be feasible?
You just need to add the TVDB ID in this page on TMDB:
That number you can get here:
But in your case you imported it with the TMDB ID, so when you add the number there one page will probably bug the other because there will be 2 shows with the same TMDB ID. The best thing to do is add the TVDB ID on TMDB and send a support e-mail with both links for the same show so they can delete one.
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I wish that were an option. I don’t like being beholden to any of these databases. In my mind what happened with TVDB could easily happen with TMDB. Trakt should be it’s own database. But I totally understand why that isn’t feasible.