HOW TO: identify misnamed movies

[Painkiller88 250]

I've seen this in a lot threads now. People having hundreds or thousands of movies but never named them like recommended by the Emby Team: Movie Naming

For those of you working with Windows i have a quick PowerShell oneliner to find all those movies and save it into a textfile. So you can go through all of them from time to time and correct it.

assuming everyone can open powershell on his PC/Server just navigate in your movies root folder with powershell where you have all your movies in.

 

Get-ChildItem -Include *.mkv -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -notlike '*(*)*' } |select Name |ft > C:\temp\movies.txt

This code will search for all .mkv files recursively where no Bracklets are in the filename and select them by name and create a file called movies.txt in C:\temp\

Edit the code line if you have MP4 files instead of MKV.

Hopefully you don't get a thousand movies back in that list if so, i would recommend using TinyMediaManager to rename your movies. but if you have just a hand full, you can add the correct year manually.

i hope this is helpful for a few of you.

Edited October 14, 2021 by Painkiller8818

[Luke 42083]

Thanks for sharing.

[Carlo 4561]

Nice script!

Just to make it clear, brackets are optional in file names to hold extra info.  Parenthesis however should be used for the year.