In regard to changing the [Name] tag while ripping a Blu-ray, the feature you are using is documented:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Blu-ray_RippingThe [Name] tag is referred to as the "Title" in that article. But same thing. The Title is what is used to look up movie information in the "Get Movie & TV Info..." function.
In regard to my statement about rename, consider first that when moving a file from directory A to directory B using Windows Explorer, all that actually happens is that the indexing information for that file is changed from A to B. There is no physical data move involved. This is true for any filesystem, on any physical memory device (hard drive, USB stick, memory card, etc.) that I'm aware of (okay, there are some exceptions, but let's not go there). It is only when a file is moved from one physical memory device to another that the data actually gets moved. Or in fact the data gets copied, and the original deleted, which actually means that the index information is discarded on the source device.
So yes, I am speaking the virtual sense, and I am not restricting that to MC. It is generally true; A file's subdirectory rename and a file move are synonymous.
Consider that MC has to cope with all sort of uses of the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" function.
Let's say a user has one movie stored in "M:\Videos\Movies\2010\" called MovieA, and a user wants the movie to be in a directory called "M:\Videos\Movies\MovieA (2010)\". Using the RM&CF function, that would be considered a rename of the sub-directory the file is in.
Now let's say a user has three movies stored in "M:\Videos\Movies\2010\" called MovieA, MovieB, and MovieC. The user wants his movies in a sub-directory based on tags of "\[Name] ([Year])\". As each movie has a different name, each will be put into a different directory, such as "\MovieA (2010)\", "\MovieB (2010)\", "\MovieC (2010)\". That would be considered a move. Or was that a move of movies B & C, and a rename of the originating directory "\2010\" to "\MovieA (2010)\"?
The answer is it doesn't matter. They are all just changes to the file indexing information... But if there were 200 movies in the "M:\Videos\Movies\2010\" sub-directory, and only three were being changed, then all three would be considered as being moved, and not having their sub-directories renamed. It has been explained once before on the forum that in fact, that is what MC does for all renames; it "moves" the files and if necessary cleans up the empty sub-directory left behind.
Anyway...
You still used the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" function the hard way, or the way that while quick and easy, doesn't show the power of the function. You really need to read and understand the Wiki article on the function:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Rename,_Move,_and_Copy_FilesFirst, using the "Find & Replace" feature you could have just said;
Find What: Evbrd333269
Replace With: Jeff Beck Performing This Week at Ronnie Scotts
Unless you have other files or directories with the name "Evbrd333269", that would have found just the movie sub-directory, and that would have moved the movie to its new sub-directory. Much less typing, and much less prone to data entry error.
But the real power in the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" function is that you could have used the tags MC knows about to rename or move the movie, in which case you can move many movies at once as part of a workflow. Just tick the Directories box, put "M:\Videos\BD Movies\" in the "Base Path" box, then put "[Name]\" (without quotes of course) in the "Rule" box. Then untick the "Filename" and "Find & Replace" boxes. If the [Name] tag of the movie was "Jeff Beck Performing This Week at Ronnie Scotts", that would have given you the same result.
Even better, if that is always the way you want to save a movie, then you can set up a Preset, which is just a template, with those settings, and reuse it any time you need to, just by selecting the Preset. For example I rip blu-rays using an external application, so I need to move the result to the correct directory. I have a Preset that sets the parameters to;
Dropdown selection: Rename (moves files if directory changes)
Move all files in folder: unticked
Directories: F:\Movies\
Rule: [Name] ([Year])\
Filename: [Name] ([Year]) (which has no effect on Blu-ray file naming, so I can use this Preset with all movie file types)
Find & Replace: unticked
This works very well for me.
Why would you bother with the little bit of extra work? Again, much less typing, much less chance of data entry error, and reuseability of the rules via Presets.
I understand though as you are ripping using MC, you don't need to move movies often, so the above isn't required usually. But it is good to understand the functionality available to you. Who knows, you may decide to move all your movies to a different directory structure at some time, and the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" function can do that easily, if it is understood.
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