Good catch, thanks. I know little/nothing about using an API, but in looking at that link, then going to the main API wiki, it doesn't show any link for searching by season and episode (that I can see), so I wonder if there are other possibilities that aren't shown there, including description. I'm guessing not.
I made a request of the developer of the program I use to convert my wtv files into ts files, which is how they end up with the name above, and requested he allow Original Air Date to be included in renaming. He's usually fairly quick to respond, but even if he can do it, searching by Original Air Date would still have to be added to MC lookup somehow, unless there is a better way.
Do we know if the original air date is included in the JRiver TV metadata? I only have a couple of shows that it's recorded, and I'm not seeing it in those details, nor in the guide info. I do see the original recorded aired date in the Date field of this file that MC recorded last night...
Everybody Loves Raymond 2011-12-17.ts
It shows [Date]= 12/15/2003, which is correct, but it shows [Season]=2003 and [Episode]=0310, which are both incorrect (based on the title of 'Jazz Records'), it should be [Season]=08 and [Episode]=10. 'Get Movie & TV info...' fails on this episode with this information, since it looks for "Everybody Loves Raymond S2003E310"
So, if this gets corrected, I guess this might save me from the original problem on shows I record with MC (which will happen soon, once wifey gets used to it), but I still think the original issue should be fixed. (defaulting blank => 1 is incorrect, IMO) It also wont fix the hundreds I've already recorded and converted though.