Best way to reorganize TV Shows into Season folders?

[FatherSaint 12]

I'd like to better organize a large number of TV Shows into Season folders instead of just having all episodes dumped into their main show folder. So: /House M.D./Season 01/season-1-episodes

While this SEEMS like a "WTF, just do it" situation, I did something similar with Jellyfin and it caused all kinds of time spent on cleaning up after. I'm hoping to avoid all of that.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

NOTE: I'm on the most current version of Emby and have Lifetime Premiere.

[Neminem 698]

Look into filebot.

Never had to use it, but here its great for this kind os thing.

[FatherSaint 12]

4 minutes ago, jaycedk said:

Look into filebot.

Never had to use it, but here its great for this kind os thing.

Yup, thanks, I have a lifetime Filebot license, but that's not really the issue here. I can easily create and move the shows into Season folders, but I want to avoid having issues with Emby not knowing where those shows went now that they've been moved from their original location into Season folders, and to avoid having to manually re-associate it all.

Edited March 16, 2024 by FatherSaint
Left out a word, clarity

[Neminem 698]

I would start with a 2 season show, and see how that turns out.

I have never had a issue with season folders.

[pwhodges 1744]

Emby will simply recognise the moved files as if newly installed.

Paul

[FatherSaint 12]

This was successful and without any hassles!

As suggested, I tried a couple small shows with only a couple seasons:

I exited Emby, moved the episodes into newly created season folders, launched Emby and told it to scan the library folders. (I know that it would have done this by itself, but I wanted to immediately see the results.)

Most importantly, which I honestly hadn't even thought of, is that I didn't lose the watch status.

Thank you all for your assistance with this!

[Locutus64 124]

On 3/16/2024 at 5:27 AM, jaycedk said:

Look into filebot.

Never had to use it, but here its great for this kind os thing.

Try RenameMyTVSeries. Personally I find it better than Filebot and It's free.

 

https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/rename-my-tv-series-v2/

[pwhodges 1744]

53 minutes ago, FatherSaint said:

Most importantly, which I honestly hadn't even thought of, is that I didn't lose the watch status.

That's because watched status is tied to the show id, not the folder/file.

Paul