Most of the time SpearNZB can find episodes for your series without any problems. However there are certain series titles that can cause a problem.
How the search works is that SpearNZB queries RSS feeds or uses its internal database for the title of the series, and a season episode number.
This is how you might look for something on a Web Site like Newzbin. You would time something like CSI s09e01 to find CSI season 9 episode 1.
Where we run into problems is the actual show is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Most of the time the release will just have CSI. Or if it's a spin-off it will have the entire series name.
The trick is that for a few special cases, like this one you need to tweak the series name to matches for the file names that get posted.
This also works differenty depending on what you use to search episodes (Newzbin, NZBMatrix, TVNZB or SpearNZB)
For NZBMatrix the title needs to be set to what we expect to find in a search. So we rename to CSI
Now SpearNZB will search for CSI and the season episode number. Also don't forget to set the category for NZBMatrix to get the resolution that you desire.
TVNZB and SpearNZB-Database works by giving you a list of all of the names that make up a series.
Highlight the series and press settings.
In this case we want to remove everything but CSI and press the add button to add x264. So when SpearNZB goes to search for this episode it will find files that have
CSI s##e## and x264.
We could also add more text to narrow down a search if that was needed as well.
With Newzbin you first need to create an RSS Feed that will return valid items to search. We would create an RSS feed for CSI x264 in the TV Section.
Here we actually want the title CSI: Crime Scene Investigation because on Newzbin they have wonderful moderators that use proper names.
90% of time you don't have to worry about this, but if your not finding episodes for your favorite shows this should help in finding an answer.
Happy Watching.....