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Metadata For TiVo Desktop and pyTivo

title : <movie title>
seriesTitle : Movies
episodeTitle : <movie title> (<year>)
time : 2014-05-21T00:00:00Z
seriesId : SH00900001
description : <.....varies.....>
isEpisode : true
originalAirDate : 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z
isEpisodic : true

I used this format last May to upload 73 recordings to a "Movies" folder, 13 to a "Home Movies" folder and 8 to an "RR Movies" folder. I only altered the title, episodeTitle and the last digit of the seriesId (1, 2 or 3). Unfortunately, now that I want to add some new recordings, they no longer go into the "Movies" folder on the Roamio Pro. They all go into a folder with the title up the first recording that gets uploaded. For example, if I first upload "Battleship", it shows up in the My Shows list as "Movies". When I begin to upload "The Natural", the folder name changes to "Battleship". Then, within that folder is a recording of "Battleship" as well as "The Natural".

I tried changing a few things and my changes didn't help. I did upload the movies individually using their titles, so I can watch them just fine. My original plan was to separate them into groups, like Movies A-C, D-F, etc. I tried altering the date/time to see if I could force them into a sequence, like TV episodes However, no amount of tweaking the date or time seemed to do what I wanted, probably because they all have different titles. So, I then took care to upload the original recordings in alpha sequence. If these new ones had gone into the existing folder, they would be out of sequence, so my question now is what can I do to even get these into a new folder, say "Movies 2"?

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: I changed "Movies" to "Movies2" and the end of the seriesId from "01" to "10". I now have 2 recordings in the Movies2 folder. So, the metadata structure I've been using still works, just not for adding new recordings to the original Movies folder. Not sure why.

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