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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 30 for Windows => Topic started by: lise on November 01, 2022, 05:49:21 pm

Title: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: lise on November 01, 2022, 05:49:21 pm
my series' filenames are like this:  M:\TV Shows\Deadwind\Deadwind - s03e03 - The Container.mp4

I expect the series to be "Deadwind", the season to be 03, the episode to be 03 and the name to be "The Container".
Auto import gives me everything as expected except the name, which is:  "Deadwind (S3E3): The Container"

I always have to select my new imports, use Fill Properties from Filename, and selecct "Automatic" which gives me the proper name.

How can I set auto-import to do this automatically?
Title: Re: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: JimH on November 01, 2022, 06:04:10 pm
Hi Lise!  Ca va?

Carnac?

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Carnac
Title: Re: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: JimH on November 01, 2022, 06:10:15 pm
Or tag on import?  It's in the import settings.
Title: Re: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: lise on November 01, 2022, 07:05:18 pm
Jim!  Look at me getting a response from the big cheese!

All is good over here. Both healthy. Jonnie will be retiring soon and I guess I will too. We're looking forward to it. More time for movies and making stuff like furniture.  How are you?

I read the Carnac page (thank you for the link). I guess it doesn't like my filename format (probably because of the lower case 's' and 'e' which I find easier on the eyes when looking through a Windows Explorer folder or missing episodes). If Carnac can't read it then I guess I'll change my future filenames to something it can read.

Title: Re: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: JimH on November 01, 2022, 09:09:31 pm
Matt will take a look.

You're too young to retire.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,134357.msg930574.html#msg930574
Title: Re: auto-import series issue with Name - includes series, episode and episode title
Post by: eve on November 02, 2022, 03:42:32 pm
Jim!  Look at me getting a response from the big cheese!

All is good over here. Both healthy. Jonnie will be retiring soon and I guess I will too. We're looking forward to it. More time for movies and making stuff like furniture.  How are you?

I read the Carnac page (thank you for the link). I guess it doesn't like my filename format (probably because of the lower case 's' and 'e' which I find easier on the eyes when looking through a Windows Explorer folder or missing episodes). If Carnac can't read it then I guess I'll change my future filenames to something it can read.

Extremely off topic but you make furniture? Super cool. Would love to see what you've built.

If you're looking at transforming a large # of media files to conform to a naming spec, Filebot can be indispensable.

There's also TMM if you're after scraping static metadata, it has a renamer but I've never used that feature.
I personally am a big advocate for static metadata stored alongside the media files. It vastly simplifies identification in software as you can then have truly unique IDs for said media (In my case, my authoritative ID is the IMDB ID but most people, without API access to IMDB, would possibly do better with the TMDB ID, I keep both but IMDB ID is what I 'use'). This way you're not relying on the software to guess what movie, or episode of a show it's looking at.