Identify Movies with no proper name

[ebds 1]

Hi folks. I have a simple question (maybe not a simple answer) but first I want to tell a little story of what happened to me:

 

Earlier this week I read about Emby and decided to check it out. I've been a Kodi user for several years now. I like the interface of Emby and I liked how many devices it has apps for and it's ability to transcode on the fly when necessary, etc.

 

So I installed the server on my beefy Windows 10 machine and then I let it analyze my library of about 350 movies. Once it had done it's initial scan, I went into the metadata and started cleaning up stuff that didn't come out right the first time. Some of you helped me questions I posted along the way.

 

Well............... I got almost to the point that I was completely finished cleaning up the things that needed manual updating ................ and then I went to delete one thing, can't remember exactly what it was ..........

 

What happened instead was that my entire movie folder was deleted. That's it, just gone. This was on a 10TB Synology NAS.

 

Here are some more facts:

 

1. The default setting on Synology is to NOT turn on the recycle bin for shared folders. I did not know that until too late.

2. I am a computer systems consultant for a bank. I know full well about backups. I first tried to use CrashPlan, which I was already using for my other offsite backups, but that wouldn't work for files that large. I just don't have another 10TB of file storage space in my home office to back everything up.

3. I had gotten about 75% of the movies backed up on CrashPlan before stopping that part of my backups. Partly because they weren't finishing anymore and they were causing other important backups not to run, and partly because I was getting notices from Comcast about exceeding the 1TB/month cap they put on high speed internet (another thing I didn't know about until they sent me the notice). I figured even if I stop backing up the movie folder, I've got 75% of them offsite already. Yeah, NOT. Didn't realize until too late that when you stop backing up a folder with CrashPlan and remove it from your backup list, CrashPlan central then deletes any and all backups they have archived for that folder. Too late again.

 

OK, now to the present and my actual question: I am running an advanced deleted file recovery routine on my Windows 10 computer. I had to remove all hard drives from that machine except for the OS to make room for the 4 EXT4 drives that I had to remove from the NAS and install on the Windows machine. Then the software created, per my specifications, a virtual RAID5 array to simulate the file organization it had when they were mounted in the NAS.

 

So far, so good. Up to now, it is reporting that it has identified 91 .MKV files that it can recover. But this is a 10TB RAID array and the program is estimating a completion time of about 15 days. So I don't know yet if the files will be intact and useable.

 

OK, finally to the question: The program is reporting that it can't recover the actual original filenames, which means I could end up with some form of 001.mkv, 003.mkv, etc. So assuming I recover all the files and they can be saved, how do I now identify all 350 movies so they can be renamed again to the proper name. 

 

If the metadata is embedded in the file and I can read it, that should tell me what I'm dealing with. But just in case it's not, I wanted to ask this group if anyone has ideas on how to identify the movies. Is there anything like Shazam for music that can scan a movie and tell you what it is? Other ideas?

 

Rob

[Luke 42080]

Hmm, good question. I've not heard of any tools like that but I suppose there's bound to be one.