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I have a few questions regarding how the RSS filters work. Right now, I am trying to download three different shows. I only want the new episodes, as they air, not reposts or season sets. I am using the tvnzb_new rss feed, as I do not have a newzbin account (but would like one ). I believe the feed I am using only presents episodes that are currently airing, but I am not 100% sure.

Currently, I have a single feed definition for http://www.tvnzb.com/tvnzb_new.rss with 4 filters:

Reject | NUKED
Accept | The.Office*
Accept | FlashForward*
Accept | Dexter*Dimension

Am I doing this right? Or should I set up a different feed definition with a filter for each series I want to download? Will sabnzb only download the first of multiple hits (this is why I am filtering on the release group for Dexter, as there are multiple releases of it)? The wiki is somewhat vague on this subject.

Each item in the RSS feed will be compared to all filters.
The filters are applied in the order they are listed.
As soon as a match occurs, the process stops.
So you need only one feed definition, the rest can be done with filters.

Take note that the comparison stops on the first match.
So "The Office is Nuked" will be refused, because the first filter matches and stops the process.

There is one more rule.
When you define a new feed, the very first scan will never be downloaded.
Only subsequent new jobs will be downloaded (if matching).
This is to prevent downloading a huge backlog (because some feeds provide a very long history).

That's what I assumed, although I have since discovered the joy of http://mytvnzb.foechoer.be seems as that will solve all my problems!

hello everybody

i just recently switched from alt binz to sabnzbd+ and i'm liking it a lot. i've been playing around with settings etc. and now i'm discovering the joy of rss feeds!
using nzbmatrix, i was able to set up a rss feed in sabnzbd
however, i'm an absolut noob when it comes to rss and filters, so i have a few questions.

how do these filters work? currently, i have two problems which i don't kow how to solve

1) one filter (accept) i called House. the intention is to download the latest house episodes (byebye tivo/vcr). however, it seems that every episode which somehow features the word house gets downloaded. how can i avoid this?

2) how do i set up the filters if i want to download csi, csi ny but not csi miami? i thought of creating a reject miami filter, but this would also exclude other shows, which, for instance have the word miami in the episode title.

could someone point me in right direction regarding this filter thingy?

thx a lot!

Have you read this? http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-rss-v2

yeah, i did, but that was of no help to me, unfortunately 

Matching generic words is always a challenge.
Matching "House" exclusively will be next to impossible without a further pattern to match.
Something you will notice too when using services like binsearch.info.
You'll have to have a number of "rejects" that will reject explicit combinations with "house".

For question two:
Reject: *CSI*Miami*
Accept: *CSI*

You can look into regular expressions for more power.
0.5.0Beta1 also has a "Require" filter, which may make some searches easier.

thank you very much, i thought as much regarding "House"
i was just wondering if there are some expressions which can create some sort of exclusivity. for instance, because of my house-filter, this was downloaded:

Jonas S01E17 The Tale Of The Haunted Firehouse DSR XviD 2WiRE

i suppose this happened because of the term 'firehouse'.

Would this may be more useful? *House* instead of House?

your "CSI-Proposal" might do the trick though!

i suppose the best way to go would be custom rss feeds, which allow you to define which particular shows should be included in the feed in the first place.

boiler wrote: Would this may be more useful? *House* instead of House?

It's the same.
What may help is Assuming that the feed separates words by dots (as many do).

thanks for your patience and help!

i have one more question:

when i download an nzb or i add a link to an nzb, the file is downloaded and extacted to d:\downloads\filexyz.avi
everything else gets deleted (as i want it to, so everything works perfectly)

when on the other hand a file is downloaded via the rss feed, the file is extracted to d:\downloads\filexyz\filexyz.avi, in other words a subfolder is created.

i don't use any categories so in my unterstanding, this should not be happening. any ideas where i'm going wrong?

Only the sorting option can remove the extra folder.
What are your sorting settings?
Are they the same for RSS as the default?

in the sorting tab:

Generic Sorting -> Enable Movie Sorting: Yes
Affected categories: None
Preset: No folders

In the RSS:
Category: None 
Mode: +Delete (same as default)

When I use these settings it works OK for normal and RSS downloads:

Enable Movie Sorting: ON
Keep loose downloads in extra folders: OFF
Affected Categories:  None
Sort String:  %title (%y).%ext
Multipart label:  CD%1

When you click the preset button "No Folders" it will set the above
except "Keep loose downloads in extra folders" will be ON.
In your scenario it should be OFF.

sorry for getting back to you this late shypike! i hope the feedback will still be useful

i actually use the very same settings you mentioned for a while now and it works perfectly. only one issue remained:

if i downloaded a tv show which has the year in its filename (e.g. Castle (2009) s02e14.avi or Human Target (2010) s01e01.avi)

the files got extracted like this:

castle (2009).avi and human target (2010).avi

so i changed the sort string to %fn.%ext and now, everything works how it's supposed to be.