Advice for Naming w/TV Show "collection" DVDs

[fogpuppy 1]

Hi,

 

I'm looking for advice on how to name files from a TV Show of "collection" DVD.  This specific set of collection is "not" organized by seasons/episodes but takes a bunch of related episodes and puts them together under a "topic" of sorts.  Here is an example of what I'm talking about:

Show: Good Eats
Collection: "All Season Edibles" (3 disks) (just an arbitrary theme name for the collection but only on the box)
  Disc1: "Juicy Meats" (3 Shows) (the disc name and a sub-theme)
  Disc2: "Super Sweets" (4 shows)
  Disc3: "Holiday Treats" (3 shows)

There are multiple collections like this all with various themes and multiple disks with a "sub themes" per disc.  None of the titles on the DVD have names so when I rip them with MakeMKV the best I'm going to get easily without typing in all the episode names is:

Good Eats/
  All Season Edibles/
    Juicy Meats/
      Juicy Meat - T01
      Juicy Meat - T02
      Juicy Meat - T03
    Super Sweets/
      Super Sweets- T01
      Super Sweets- T02
      Super Sweets - T03
etc....

The problem is ... If I put it like this into a Library Folder like "TV Shows" I don't get "Good Eats" as the show name  I get "Juicy Meats" and "Super Sweets".  Filebot is no help as it just picks seemingly "random" episodes when pass this directory structure.  so ...

What I've done so far is to put the files all in a "Good Eats" folder with the files names like above.  But this give me one season "Unknown" with a massive number of "Episodes" in it ...  hardly optimal

Any idea on how to organize the files so ideally  I'd get the "Show" to be "Good Eats" The a "Season" to be named " Juicy Meats" or "Super Sweets", etc.  and then the "Episode would be the various ripped files.  I don't need to have the real Episode name as I cna live with Juicy Meats-T01, -T02, etc. but that would be a bonus.  

 

Ideas / suggestions.

 

BTW has anyone wondered why we Don't have some sort of a Movies/Show "fingerprint" like they've implemented for Music?  Or some sort of technology much like asking Siri to listen what song is playing and identify the Move/Show.  Siri seems to be able to do this pretty much anywhere in the song I'd think a similar technique could work even for movies.  Just pick a section of Audio or Video and sample it ....  Just a randome thought ... 

Edited September 18, 2020 by fogpuppy

[Deathsquirrel 745]

TV should be organized by seasons.  I own a number of those Good Eats collections.  You look up the actual season and episode number and name the shows accordingly.

As a result your structure is going to be something like \\SERVER\SHARE\Good Eats\Season 1\Good Eats S01E01.mkv.  Because the collections include episodes from different seasons, you'll end up with a scattering of shows across the series.  For example, I don't have any season 2 episodes right now but at least 1-2 episodes from all other seasons.

 

 

Edited September 18, 2020 by Deathsquirrel

[fogpuppy 1]

Sure if I want to spend time looking up and manually renaming all the files. But I don’t and I’m ok with them not being exact episode / season names.  If there’s no other options I’ll live with my current structure. 
For more “normal” season oriented disc one can usually use FileBot to find the titles for a season and map them positionally. But these are random episodes grouped together randomly so  totally a manual process

[Happy2Play 9780]

From a TV Show content type standpoint no as it requires structure and naming scheme.  I guess you could possibly drop it in a Home Video library but would be individual items not presented like Series.

[fogpuppy 1]

Ok ... fair enough.  I was hoping to find an alternative but I can live with what I'm getting or I'll try your the idea of using Home Video to see if that works any better ....  Anytihng to not have to manually rename about 100 titles ....