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6. Modifying Your Config for Your Media Player

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Jesse Bannon edited this page Jul 29, 2023 · 46 revisions

At this point in the walk-through, we have ytdl-sub configured to download videos, playlists, or channels, and can place the video and thumbnail files into a desired folder. We can watch them via navigating the file system and opening them in VLC or other desktop video players.

ytdl-sub was written to support this use-case as well as format videos to watch them in Kodi, Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, or any other media player/server.

This example will show how to make YouTube videos display as TV shows in Kodi, Jellyfin, and Emby using NFO files. For simplicity, we will just say Kodi because both Jellyfin and Emby adopted Kodi's NFO metadata structure, and scrape videos in the same manner.

Displaying Videos as TV Shows

Having YouTube videos display as TV Shows in Kodi is the perfect way to organize them. We can

  • Have channels be their own TV show
  • Have playlists be their own TV show
  • Assign single videos, playlists, or channels to a TV show name we come up with

Our current subscription saves videos to Music Videos/ and Rick's channel's name, Rick Astley/. Let's make these show as separate TV shows with their respective names.

TV Show Structure

Most TV shows follow the same structure, where you have

  1. The TV show itself
  2. Seasons
  3. Episodes

We want Music Videos and Rick Astley to be their own TV shows. We need to decide how to represent seasons and episodes. What we have found to work well is setting the season to be the year of when the video was uploaded, and the episode to be the month and day combined. Let's create additional override variables in our video preset to show this in practice.

    overrides:
      video_name: "{upload_date_standardized}.{title_sanitized}"
      video_type: "{channel}"
      video_path: "{video_type_sanitized}/{video_name}"
      season: "{upload_year}"
      episode: "{upload_month}{upload_day_padded}"

We set the season to be {upload_year} and episode to be {upload_month}{upload_day_padded}. Why pad the day? Without it, episodes will be out of order. Suppose we have two videos uploaded on 2021-10-04 and 2021-05-23.

Episodes formatted as {upload_month}{upload_day} would be

  • 104 (October 4th)
  • 523 (May 23rd)

The numbers do not have the same ordering as the date - October 4th's episode number should be greater than May 23rd's.

Episodes formatted as {upload_month}{upload_day_padded} would be

  • 1004 (October 4th)
  • 523 (May 23rd)

October 4th's episode number is now greater than May 23rd's.

Naming TV Show Episode Files

Kodi's TV show file structure is relatively straight forward, it looks like:

TV Shows/
  Breaking Bad/
    Season 1/
      s01e01.Pilot.mp4
    Season 2/
      ...

We need our config to save videos in this format. Let's modify our override variables in the video preset to have more representative names, and place files in this structure.

    overrides:
      tv_show_name: "OVERRIDE IN SUBSCRIPTION"
      season: "{upload_year}"
      episode: "{upload_month}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_padded: "{upload_month_padded}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_file_name: "s{season}e{episode_padded}.{title_sanitized}"
      episode_path: "Season {season}/{episode_file_name}"

We created the variable tv_show_name and set it to an obnoxious capitalized string. We did this for numerous reasons:

  • If we had set it to {channel}, downloading a playlist containing videos from multiple channels would create many new TV show folders
  • Channel names are often usernames that are not ideal for TV Show names, like videogamedunkey vs explicitly setting Dunkey
  • When override variables contain source variables within them, they cannot be used in OverridesStringFormatValidators. We will touch on this later.

We also created a new variable called episode_padded. This is used in episode_file_name to better order episode files when viewing them in the file system. episode_path contains our full path for saving the video with the appropriate TV show, season, and episode.

Let's update our config and subscriptions with our new override variable names. We are also going to add a few lines to download channel artwork, and format it so it shows in Kodi. Changed/added lines from our prior config are denoted with a comment above them.

Updating our Configs

config.yaml

configuration:
  working_directory: '/tmp/ytdl-sub-downloads'
  dl_aliases:
    video: "--preset video"
    video-url: "--download.url"
    # changed from video-type: "--overrides.video_type"
    tv-show-name: "--overrides.tv_show_name"
    single-music-video: "--preset video --overrides.tv_show_name 'Music Video' --download.url"

presets:
  video:
    output_options:
      # changed from "/config/first_config/output_videos"
      output_directory: "/config/first_config/output_videos/{tv_show_name_sanitized}"
      # changed from "{video_path}.{ext}"
      file_name: "{episode_path}.{ext}"
      # changed from "{video_path}.{thumbnail_ext}"
      thumbnail_name: "{episode_path}-thumb.{thumbnail_ext}"

    overrides:
      tv_show_name: "OVERRIDE IN SUBSCRIPTION"
      season: "{upload_year}"
      episode: "{upload_month}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_padded: "{upload_month_padded}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_file_name: "s{season}e{episode_padded}.{title_sanitized}"
      episode_path: "Season {season}/{episode_file_name}"

  playlist:
    preset: "video"
    output_options:
      maintain_download_archive: True
    ytdl_options:
      break_on_existing: True

  channel:
    preset: "playlist"
    # added: downloads channel avatar and banner to the output directory
    download:
       playlist_thumbnails:
        - name: "poster.jpg"
          uid: "avatar_uncropped"
        - name: "banner.jpg"
          uid: "banner_uncropped"

  recent_videos:
    date_range:
      after: "now-6months"
    output_options:
      keep_files_after: "now-6months"

subscription.yaml

rick_a_music_video_playlist:
  preset: "playlist"
  download:
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlaN88a7y2_plecYoJxvRFTLHVbIVAOoc"
  overrides:
    # changed from video_type: "Music Videos"
    tv_show_name: "Music Videos"
rick_a_channel:
  preset:
    - "channel"
    - "recent_videos"
  download:
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw"
  # added explicit tv_show_name override
  overrides:
    tv_show_name: "Rick Astley"

We now use {tv_show_name_sanitized} in the output_options.output_directory. This makes it so all file paths within the config are relative to this directory. In addition, any download archive JSON files will now reside in the TV show's respective directory.

If we had set tv_show_name as {channel}, our config would raise a validation error. This is because {channel} is a source variable and output_options.output_directory cannot use source variables because it needs to be a static string with respect to the subscription. In our docs, any field denoted as a OverridesStringFormatterValidator must meet this condition.

We also changed output_options.thumbnail_name to have -thumb at the end of the file name. This a Kodi convention for naming thumbnails.

Redownloading Subscriptions with Config Changes

Since we already downloaded our subscriptions and they are maintained by a download archive, we unfortunately have to delete what we have and redownload. Let's do that with

rm -rf /config/first_config/output_videos

Now let's dry run to make sure our config is working as expected.

ytdl-sub --dry-run sub

[ytdl-sub] Downloads for rick_a_music_video_playlist:
Files created in '/config/first_config/output_videos/Music Videos'
----------------------------------------
.ytdl-sub-rick_a_music_video_playlist-download-archive.json
Season 2009/
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video).webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video).webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video).mp4
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K]-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K].webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2012/
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2013/
  s2013e0822.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987)-thumb.jpg
  s2013e0822.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987).webm
Season 2015/
  s2015e0201.Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2015e0201.Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2016/
  s2016e0406.Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0406.Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video).webm
  s2016e0609.Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0609.Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video).webm
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987).webm
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987).webm
  s2016e0907.Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0907.Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video).webm
  s2016e1110.Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e1110.Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2017/
  s2017e0620.Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2017e0620.Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2018/
  s2018e0309.Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0309.Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e0705.Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0705.Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e0913.Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0913.Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e1109.Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e1109.Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2019/
  s2019e0531.Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0531.Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version).webm
  s2019e0606.Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0606.Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio).webm
  s2019e0619.Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0619.Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video).webm
  s2019e1030.Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1030.Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video).webm
  s2019e1119.Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1119.Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video).webm
  s2019e1121.Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video]-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1121.Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video].webm
  s2019e1128.Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1128.Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video).webm
  s2019e1212.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1212.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance).webm
Season 2020/
  s2020e1015.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1015.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video).webm
  s2020e1023.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1023.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video).webm
  s2020e1130.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1130.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video).webm
  s2020e1210.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1210.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2021/
  s2021e0408.Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2021e0408.Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video).webm

[ytdl-sub] Downloads for rick_a_channel:
Files created in '/config/first_config/output_videos/Rick Astley'
----------------------------------------
.ytdl-sub-rick_a_channel-download-archive.json
Season 2022/
  s2022e0308.Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0308.Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover).webm
  s2022e0413.Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0413.Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio).webm
  s2022e0520.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0520.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video).webm
fanart.jpg
poster.jpg

Looking good, everything is in its appropriate directory.

Understanding Kodi NFOs

NFO files are used to populate the music and video library in Kodi using locally stored information. For every video we download, we need to create an NFO file to represent it as an episode. ytdl-sub offers an NFO plugin to generate NFOs for each entry.

Generating Kodi NFO Files

Episode NFO Files

Let's add the following section to the video preset.

    nfo_tags:
      nfo_name: "{episode_path}.nfo"
      nfo_root: "episodedetails"
      tags:
        title: "{title}"
        season: "{season}"
        episode: "{episode}"
        year: "{upload_year}"
        aired: "{upload_date_standardized}"

This sets both source and override variables to an episode NFO file that Kodi can read. Notice that we use {episode} and not {episode_padded}. This will be the episode number that Kodi ingests internally. We do not want that to be padded and error in case something like 0123 is not a valid number.

TV Show NFO File

We need create one more TV show NFO file in the TV show directory. There is another ytdl-sub plugin called NFO Output Directory that lets us define this. Let's write it directly below the nfo_tags section:

    output_directory_nfo_tags:
      nfo_name: "tvshow.nfo"
      nfo_root: "tvshow"
      tags:
        title: "{tv_show_name}"

Since our output_options.output_directory points to the TV show directory, and all file path fields are relative to it, nfo_name will get written to <TV Show Name>/tvshow.nfo

Testing TV Shows in Kodi

Our config is finally ready transform YouTube videos into Kodi TV shows. Let's take another look at the entire config and do another dry-run to make sure our NFO generation looks good.

config.yaml

configuration:
  working_directory: '/tmp/ytdl-sub-downloads'
  dl_aliases:
    video: "--preset video"
    video-url: "--download.url"
    tv-show-name: "--overrides.tv_show_name"
    single-music-video: "--preset video --overrides.tv_show_name 'Music Video' --download.url"

presets:
  video:
    output_options:
      output_directory: "/config/first_config/output_videos/{tv_show_name_sanitized}"
      file_name: "{episode_path}.{ext}"
      thumbnail_name: "{episode_path}-thumb.{thumbnail_ext}"

    overrides:
      tv_show_name: "OVERRIDE IN SUBSCRIPTION"
      season: "{upload_year}"
      episode: "{upload_month}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_padded: "{upload_month_padded}{upload_day_padded}"
      episode_file_name: "s{season}e{episode_padded}.{title_sanitized}"
      episode_path: "Season {season}/{episode_file_name}"

    nfo_tags:
      nfo_name: "{episode_path}.nfo"
      nfo_root: "episodedetails"
      tags:
        title: "{title}"
        season: "{season}"
        episode: "{episode}"
        year: "{upload_year}"
        aired: "{upload_date_standardized}"

    output_directory_nfo_tags:
      nfo_name: "tvshow.nfo"
      nfo_root: "tvshow"
      tags:
        title: "{tv_show_name}"

  playlist:
    preset: "video"
    output_options:
      maintain_download_archive: True
    ytdl_options:
      break_on_existing: True

  channel:
    preset: "playlist"
    download:
       playlist_thumbnails:
        - name: "poster.jpg"
          uid: "avatar_uncropped"
        - name: "banner.jpg"
          uid: "banner_uncropped"

  recent_videos:
    date_range:
      after: "now-6months"
    output_options:
      keep_files_after: "now-6months"

Let's dry run it:

ytdl-sub --dry-run sub

[ytdl-sub] Downloads for rick_a_music_video_playlist:
Files created in '/config/first_config/output_videos/Music Videos'
----------------------------------------
.ytdl-sub-rick_a_music_video_playlist-download-archive.json
Season 2009/
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2009-10-25
        episode: 1025
        season: 2009
        title: Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video)
        year: 2009
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Cry for Help (Official Music Video).webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2009-10-25
        episode: 1025
        season: 2009
        title: Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video)
        year: 2009
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms (Official Music Video).webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video).mp4
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2009-10-25
        episode: 1025
        season: 2009
        title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
        year: 2009
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K]-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K].nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2009-10-25
        episode: 1025
        season: 2009
        title: Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K]
        year: 2009
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Together Forever (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K].webm
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2009-10-25
        episode: 1025
        season: 2009
        title: Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video)
        year: 2009
  s2009e1025.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2012/
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2012-03-14
        episode: 314
        season: 2012
        title: Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video)
        year: 2012
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2012-03-14
        episode: 314
        season: 2012
        title: Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video)
        year: 2012
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Hopelessly (Official Music Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2012-03-14
        episode: 314
        season: 2012
        title: Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video)
        year: 2012
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me (Official Music Video).webm
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2012-03-14
        episode: 314
        season: 2012
        title: Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video)
        year: 2012
  s2012e0314.Rick Astley - Take Me to Your Heart (Official Music Video).webm
  s2013e0822.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987)-thumb.jpg
Season 2013/
  s2013e0822.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2013-08-22
        episode: 822
        season: 2013
        title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987)
        year: 2013
  s2013e0822.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (Top Of The Pops 1987).webm
Season 2015/
  s2015e0201.Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2015e0201.Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2015-02-01
        episode: 201
        season: 2015
        title: Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video)
        year: 2015
  s2015e0201.Rick Astley - Lights Out (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2016/
  s2016e0406.Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0406.Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-04-06
        episode: 406
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video)
        year: 2016
  s2016e0406.Rick Astley - Keep Singing (Official Music Video).webm
  s2016e0609.Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0609.Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-06-09
        episode: 609
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video)
        year: 2016
  s2016e0609.Rick Astley - Angels On My Side (Official Music Video).webm
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-07-06
        episode: 706
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987)
        year: 2016
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Live) (The Roxy 1987).webm
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-07-06
        episode: 706
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987)
        year: 2016
  s2016e0706.Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Live) (The Roxy 1987).webm
  s2016e0907.Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e0907.Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-09-07
        episode: 907
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video)
        year: 2016
  s2016e0907.Rick Astley - Dance (Official Video).webm
  s2016e1110.Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2016e1110.Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2016-11-10
        episode: 1110
        season: 2016
        title: Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video)
        year: 2016
  s2016e1110.Rick Astley - Pray With Me (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2017/
  s2017e0620.Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2017e0620.Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2017-06-20
        episode: 620
        season: 2017
        title: Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video)
        year: 2017
  s2017e0620.Rick Astley - This Old House (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2018/
  s2018e0309.Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0309.Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2018-03-09
        episode: 309
        season: 2018
        title: Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video)
        year: 2018
  s2018e0309.Rick Astley - Walk Like A Panther (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e0705.Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0705.Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2018-07-05
        episode: 705
        season: 2018
        title: Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video)
        year: 2018
  s2018e0705.Rick Astley - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e0913.Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e0913.Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2018-09-13
        episode: 913
        season: 2018
        title: Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video)
        year: 2018
  s2018e0913.Rick Astley - Try (Official Music Video).webm
  s2018e1109.Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2018e1109.Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2018-11-09
        episode: 1109
        season: 2018
        title: Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video)
        year: 2018
  s2018e1109.Rick Astley - She Makes Me (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2019/
  s2019e0531.Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0531.Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-05-31
        episode: 531
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version)
        year: 2019
  s2019e0531.Rick Astley - Try (Champions League Tribute Version).webm
  s2019e0606.Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0606.Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-06-06
        episode: 606
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio)
        year: 2019
  s2019e0606.Rick Astley - Giant (Official Audio).webm
  s2019e0619.Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e0619.Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-06-19
        episode: 619
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video)
        year: 2019
  s2019e0619.Rick Astley - Giant (Tour Video).webm
  s2019e1030.Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1030.Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-10-30
        episode: 1030
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video)
        year: 2019
  s2019e1030.Rick Astley - Every One of Us (Rehearsal Video).webm
  s2019e1119.Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1119.Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-11-19
        episode: 1119
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video)
        year: 2019
  s2019e1119.Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man (Official HD Video).webm
  s2019e1121.Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video]-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1121.Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video].nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-11-21
        episode: 1121
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video]
        year: 2019
  s2019e1121.Rick Astley - Move Right Out (UK Version) [Official HD Video].webm
  s2019e1128.Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1128.Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-11-28
        episode: 1128
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video)
        year: 2019
  s2019e1128.Rick Astley - The Ones You Love (Official HD Video).webm
  s2019e1212.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance)-thumb.jpg
  s2019e1212.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2019-12-12
        episode: 1212
        season: 2019
        title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance)
        year: 2019
  s2019e1212.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte) (Performance).webm
Season 2020/
  s2020e1015.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1015.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2020-10-15
        episode: 1015
        season: 2020
        title: Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video)
        year: 2020
  s2020e1015.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Heroes Edit) (Official Music Video).webm
  s2020e1023.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1023.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2020-10-23
        episode: 1023
        season: 2020
        title: Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video)
        year: 2020
  s2020e1023.Rick Astley ft.The Unsung Heroes - Every One of Us (Lyric Video).webm
  s2020e1130.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1130.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2020-11-30
        episode: 1130
        season: 2020
        title: Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video)
        year: 2020
  s2020e1130.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Lyric Video).webm
  s2020e1210.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2020e1210.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2020-12-10
        episode: 1210
        season: 2020
        title: Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video)
        year: 2020
  s2020e1210.Rick Astley - Love This Christmas (Official Music Video).webm
Season 2021/
  s2021e0408.Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2021e0408.Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2021-04-08
        episode: 408
        season: 2021
        title: Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video)
        year: 2021
  s2021e0408.Rick Astley - Unwanted (Official Song from the Podcast) (Lyric Video).webm
  tvshow.nfo
    NFO tags:
      tvshow:
        title: Music Videos
  
[ytdl-sub] Downloads for rick_a_channel:
Files created in '/config/first_config/output_videos/Rick Astley'
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.ytdl-sub-rick_a_channel-download-archive.json
Season 2022/
  s2022e0308.Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0308.Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2022-03-08
        episode: 308
        season: 2022
        title: Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover)
        year: 2022
  s2022e0308.Rick Astley - abcdefu (GAYLE Cover).webm
  s2022e0413.Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0413.Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2022-04-13
        episode: 413
        season: 2022
        title: Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio)
        year: 2022
  s2022e0413.Rick Astley – My Arms Keep Missing You (Official Audio).webm
  s2022e0520.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video)-thumb.jpg
  s2022e0520.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video).nfo
    NFO tags:
      episodedetails:
        aired: 2022-05-20
        episode: 520
        season: 2022
        title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video)
        year: 2022
  s2022e0520.Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Animated Video).webm
  fanart.jpg
  poster.jpg
  tvshow.nfo
    NFO tags:
      tvshow:
        title: Rick Astley

Looks good! Let's perform the download with ytdl-sub sub and have Kodi read the files. We will leave this exercise up to you for configuring Kodi to read these files. Our suggestion is to mount a directory in the docker container for ytdl-sub TV shows, write all TV shows in that directory, and set that same path for Kodi to read.

How It Looks in Kodi

We finally did it: Rick Astley's YouTube channel formatted as a TV show! kodi_rick

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