Incorrect and missing videos

Adding videos to the library/Contents

See also: TV shows#Tweaking matches

The most common cause for something to be missing from a library scan, or to have scanned incorrectly, is if the file name of the video isn't named correctly. On problematic files you may wish to double check the naming once again, or even try alternative names or include the year the work was made (if it was a movie).

Fixing individual videos

After adding new video files, if you find that the information is incorrect, select the incorrect entry and press i to bring up the movie information and then select "Refresh". From here you can also do a manual title search lookup. Sometimes using a partial title in the manual search will help when a normal search brings up nothing.

Tools

When you need to edit/change either just one entry, or hundreds of entries, there are several tools that can make this task easier:

• Add-on:XWMM - Can be used to edit library entires from a web browser.
• Add-on:Missing Movie Scanner - An XBMC add-on that will search your video sources and list all movies not scanned in your library.
• Category:Library managers -

NFO files

Another valid way of making sure your scraper finds its way to correct information for your newly added media is by the use of Nfo files. Nfo files can be used to provide data for a movie or influence the search behavior of scrapers (e.g by pointing it to a predefined URL).

Manually finding missing videos

If you have a small library then you can probably just use file mode and see what videos don't have metadata (thumbnails, for example). For larger video collections, see #Tools such as Add-on:Missing Movie Scanner.

Adding or excluding file types

You can add or exclude additional file types/extensions when scanning files into the library via an advancedsettings.xml file and the <videoextensions> tag: