Unfortunately, it seems to be a glitch in Mezzmo. I also use TMM to generate .nfo files for TV and Movie files.
It works almost perfectly for movies (except when there is a <colon> in the movie title).
However, Mezzmo just doesn't seem to want to cooperate about 20% of the time when it comes to TV Series and playlists. I have been fighting it for many, many months. These are the settings and setup that I find work best, but there is still a lot of hit and mess. On the playback end, I use playlists exclusively:
Metadata Retrieval.jpg
Metadata Retrieval Playlist.jpg
Series Level.jpg
Season Level.jpg
My screenshots show a few extraneous files like <banner>, <logo> and <clearlogo> on the Series Level and the<xxxxxxxxxx.thumb> on the season level. I don't put them in there anymore but the folders that still have these files have never been affected by their presence.
The quirkiest thing I have seen is that Mezzmo will initially populate the playlist and generate the correct poster for a season, until you actually play an episode. At that point, Mezzmo deletes the existing season poster and replaces it with a thumbnail from one of the episodes in that season. Once you set it back manually, it will stay. I believe this occurs 100% of the time but I haven't paid enough attention to say there aren't instances where it doesn't occur.
If you reset your database, you will lose your playlists and any manually entered changes (speaking from experience). But that's a big reason I use locally stored art and .nfo files. If I do have to nuke it from orbit I have to recreate the playlists but the metadata and artwork populates automatically and rather quickly. Then all I have to do is poke around and do a little deep cleaning.
My TMM settings:
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I am still using the TVDB and pay the annual fee. There are a few things that I do to get everything set right but I have finally settled on a system. It's been a big learning curve with TV Series. It takes a little extra work and vigilance but it works most of the time and I can usually predict when it won't so that I know what to go in and manually change to get what I want.
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