Auto organize dated episodes

[computerprep 148]

Any chance the auto organize feature could scrape and match date information for media files that match a series name but are missing season and episode.

 

It's not a sustainable practice to manually match these late night shows.

 

[funwithmedia 373]

There's a naming convention for matching by date already ( https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV%20naming#by-date ). Give that a try and see if it accomplishes what you're needing.

 

If you need to rename a batch of files you could give FileBot a try:

http://www.filebot.net

https://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot/

[computerprep 148]

Interesting. Never noticed that particular naming convention before.

 

I prefer KenRename for manual renaming and BulkRenameCommand for automated/scripted renaming. I use the BRC tool and a android remote run a series of batch where's rename my movies since the auto organize feature doesn't do movies yet (last I checked). Links below. Unfortunately, all the sorted files for this series are already stripped of dates from the filename.

 

http://myprogramspace.blogspot.com/2008/07/krename-multi-file-rename-tool-v0.html

 

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Command.php

[Luke 42080]

Auto-organize does support organizing by date, however, the file name of what you're trying to organize has to fall within our supported naming conventions, as funwithmedia has alluded to above.

 

I ran the above through our test suite and it is able to extract the date, but the series name is "james.corden". It probably had a hard time matching that up with the actual series name in your library.

[computerprep 148]

Cool. I must have forgotten to "save and apply this correction to future files with similiar names" because there was no match saved in the smart matches tab. Once I did that, most were caught unless the date didn't match thetvdb

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the feedback.