Files in same directory have same Title

[bokdoly 0]

Hi I downloaded some files to a directory and they all have the same title field.

Is there a way to display the path as the title to distinguish them or a way to auto change the metadata based on filename?

Thank you!

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[Carlo 4561]

Hi, What does this folder look like on disc?

[Luke 42086]

hi @bokdoly what kind of folder is this? What are the contents?

[bokdoly 0]

On 26/07/2021 at 10:02, Luke said:

hi @bokdoly what kind of folder is this? What are the contents?

Hi,

The directory structure is as follows:

 

Video\Olympics\0724\KBS Tokyo Olympics day 1.a.mp4

Video\Olympics\0724\KBS Tokyo Olympics day 1.b.mp4

Video\Olympics\0724\MBC Tokyo Olympics day 1.a.mp4

Video\Olympics\0724\MBC Tokyo Olympics day 1.b.mp4

Video\Olympics\0724\SBS Tokyo Olympics day 1.a.mp4

etc...

 

When I right click and edit metadata in Emby, the Title is as displaed in my original screenshot ("KBS1" "KBS1" "MBC1" "MBC2" "SBS1")

Is there any way around renaming these individually?

 

Thank you!

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by bokdoly

[Happy2Play 9785]

What is the library content type?

But from the image it looks like Split video files (file stacking) is happening.  If you enter one of those displayed items does it shows b as an additional part?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

23 minutes ago, bokdoly said:

Is there any way around renaming these individually?

Well they are, obviously, not going to be found in any database so automatic naming is out.

There is one possibility that could work use a bulk renaming utility and, using "SBS Tokyo Olympics day 1.a.mp4" as an example replace the first 18 chars with TOLY and remove the extraneous periods with a space or remove them. I think simple removal would be best.

Once you do that you will have file names like "TOLY day 1a.mp4"

I use Renamer lite for this kind of simple thing but there are a huge number of renaming utils that can work. "Renamer lite" can be easily set to do this in one pass with just two rules.

Whops, I just noticed that will not work because the first three chars are needed for uniqueness. The change to get it right woul be to just replace chars 5-18 with "TOLY" so you end up with:
"SBS TOLY day 1a.mp4" which still should work.

Edited August 10, 2021 by Gilgamesh_48