Preparing to tackle Doctor Who

[syarbrou1 0]

So I have pretty much every Doctor Who episode and special from all the way back to Unearthly Child to current.  Any recommendations how to lay things out?  Wish things could work for TV more graphically as they do with Movies but it is what it is.  Any recommendations for naming or folder structure or anything else?

Thanks.

[arrbee99 1817]

Personally, just make sure they match / are named that same as in TVDB

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Match TVDB, no trouble at all.  For example:

 

\\<MyServer>\<MyShare>\TV Shows\Doctor Who (2005)\Season 01\Doctor Who (2005) S01E01 Rose.mkv

[syarbrou1 0]

 

This is how I named my episodes, this keeps the full name and allows Emby to identify the epp using TheTVDB metedata

PS dir "J:\Media\TV\Doctor Who\Season 01" | Select name | Sort name

Name
----
Doctor Who - S01E01 (001) - An Unearthly Child (1) - An Unearthly Child.mkv
Doctor Who - S01E02 (001) - An Unearthly Child (2) - The Cave of Skulls.mkv
Doctor Who - S01E03 (001) - An Unearthly Child (3) - The Forest of Fear.mkv
Doctor Who - S01E04 (001) - An Unearthly Child (4) - The Firemaker.mkv
Doctor Who - S01E05 (002) - The Daleks (1) - The Dead Planet.mkv

 

Thanks for the help.  What did you do with as they call it, the Doctor Who 2005 episodes?  Don't those technically start over again with Season 01?

 

Thanks.

[Guest asrequested]

Mine are separated by year. Doctor Who (2005) and Doctor Who (1963)

[Q-Droid 989]

This sounds like something Auto Organize could do for you almost effortlessly.

[syarbrou1 0]

This sounds like something Auto Organize could do for you almost effortlessly.

That sounds like something I'd be afraid to run.  Against so many movies and TV shows hate to think if it reorganizes things in a way I don't like and have to redo them.  Like even though I use the collections plugin, I still like to keep all my movie collections in their own collections subfolder.

[darkassassin07 652]

With my server I seprated the two series acording to these two links (assuming you have the TVDB set as your primary metadata fetcher)

 

Dr. Who (1963) https://www.thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who/seasons/all

 

Dr. Who (2005) https://www.thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who-2005/seasons/all

 

I just went with the structure:

/TV Shows/Dr. Who (2005)/Season xx/Dr Who SxxExx <title>.avi

 

Ive found as long as the have the correct season/epp number in the title, and it's in the correct season folder it will identify just fine.

[Q-Droid 989]

That sounds like something I'd be afraid to run.  Against so many movies and TV shows hate to think if it reorganizes things in a way I don't like and have to redo them.  Like even though I use the collections plugin, I still like to keep all my movie collections in their own collections subfolder.

 

If you've used Auto Org and didn't like it then I can understand. If you haven't used it then it's worth a try. It can rename and arrange the files in Emby friendly way using a naming format of your choice. I've used it to rearrange entire series to make the final structure consistent with the rest of my libraries. I found it quite useful.

 

Auto Organize does not mess with your files already in libraries. It moves and renames from a staging folder to the library of choice. But there are other media file management tools out there that people use.