Auto Organize recorded TV?

[FrankAZ 4]

Hello,

 

I have been dabbling with the auto-organize feature in the hope of using it to organize TV episodes recorded using my HTPC. My ideal is that TV shows which I want to save 'forever' be organized by MB3. That would suit shows which my daughter is able to watch incessantly and those shows which my wife and I discover and record for binge-watching. So far no joy.

 

To begin my experiment I manually copied recorded *wtv files from the HTPC to a 'watched' folder on my server running my only instance of MBS. The auto-organize activity kicks off, but invariably the result is:

 

 

which is disappointing. I see the same with unprotected shows (no DRM flags), as shown above.

 

Is the auto-organize feature capable of parsing filenames of the type used by the WMC TV recorder, together with additional information from the embedded tags? My recordings have show name and episode name tags, though not episode number tags, inserted by WMC.

 

If so, what am I doing wrong?

 

Is there, ought there to be, a utility or plugin on the HTPC which can rename and re-tag shows appropriately?

 

If not, ought I add it as a feature request?

 

Thanks

 

Frank.

(Detailed logs available if this is unexpected behavior).

[Luke 42078]

Auto-organize supports all of our recognized episode naming conventions, which currently does not include wmc recording file names. So at the moment this is expected.

[FrankAZ 4]

Ah. OK. Thanks for the news. It'll give me an evening back.

 

It'd be great if the plugin understood WMC filenames and *.wtv embedded tags. Or, a plugin or utility on the HTPC could rename episodes to suit the MB3 server's plugin's needs.

 

Loving the rest of MB3 though. Thanks.

 

Frank.

[sydlexius 297]

WTV-MetaRenamer should suit you fine then.  It hasn't been updated in a while, but it's not too difficult to configure, and after, set to run on a schedule in Windows' Task Scheduler.

[FrankAZ 4]

WTV-MetaRenamer should suit you fine then.  It hasn't been updated in a while, but it's not too difficult to configure, and after, set to run on a schedule in Windows' Task Scheduler.

That looks like just the thing. I'll give it a whirl. Sure beats the laborious manual filename edit that I have been using.