Recently I’ve started having a consistent problem where the TVDB scraper seems to at random fail to find the proper show, despite multiple refreshes, deleting/re-adding sources etc. etc. I’ve tried to follow the naming conventions to a T, and regardless I don’t think that’s the problem. At first I had several shows that would scan perfectly, while others would display nothing and/or partial information for some random TV show. So I double-checked the names, added/re-added them, no effect. I then tried a complete re-install of Kodi (latest beta) and re-scanned the whole TV library. Now some of the shows that wouldn’t scan before scanned perfectly, but others that had previously worked returned the wrong info. Then I thought it might be a problem with the Beta, so I reverted to the stable build (16.1) and scanned the whole library again and got yet another random mix of working/non-working TV shows. As far as I can tell there’s no rhyme or reason to when/why shows will work, so I’m curious as to whether anyone else has encountered this.
ETA: OK, well, a potential work around at least. Don’t know why it didn’t occur to me in 17, but after deleting the wrong show from my library I went into Videos/Files/TV Library/TV Show X folder and chose “scan for new content” and it seemed to work. As a test, I deleted the whole folder, re-added it, same scanning problem. Deleted the wonky ones, scan for new content individually, and voila. So maybe the problem is just with scanning a batch of shows at once?