Defaulting, Schemes and two part series

BangBang

04-11-2008 06:58:06

Hi,

1. It bugs me that every time i add a tv show in tv renamer, i have to make settings which differ from the default settings. but they're allways the same settings. These are:
:arrow: set "Automatic Folder" to 'D:\TV Shows' & $Name_of_TVShow
It would be nice, if the automatic folder-root is always the same (in my case 'D:\TV Shows') and the rest of the path is the name of the tv show. I thought about a Checkbox like "Append Show-Name to the Path"

:arrow: change "Folder per Season" to 'S'
Even though the rest of the settings fit for me, a button which saves the current settings as default values would be nice.

2. Naming scheme
My Naming scheme is like: 'My.favourite.TV.Show.S01E01.Random.Title.ext'
Although I've found a template which fits almost perfectly for this scheme, it doesn't seem to be possible to have '.' in exchange for blanks. That's a pity because tv renamer wants to rename all my tv shows which are named like that.

3. Two-Series- Episodes.
How to name double lenght episodes like My Name Is Earl S03E01 and S03E02 (http://www.thetvdb.com/forums/) in such way as to enable TV Renamer to recognise these files correctly? Otherwise, S03E02 is found in the Missing-Tab.

Thanks in Advance!

ScoopD

04-11-2008 09:07:12

In answer to Q3 - you should merge the episodes.

In the My Shows tab select your show and season, so that you see the detail list in the right-hand pane. Now click the Edit button at the bottom of the page. This should bring up the rules for that season as well as a list of the episodes. Click the Add button. Choose Merge from the radio button and put your episode list in the bottom section eg. from 1 to 2 and click OK.

You will be back at the rules screen and you will see that episode one and two now appears as something like 01-02. You can change the episode name at the same time as well if you want.

Regarding Q1, I can see the merit of this for others, but it wouldn't work for me. I have my shows in separate folders and separate external drives eg. \\drive1\sci-fi\; \\drive2\documentaries\; \\drive3\animation\ and I also have a flat file system for one season shows, but not for multi-season shows.

Q2 - Steve has just been implementing a custom namer.

sstteevvee

04-11-2008 18:57:50

3. As ScoopD points out, use a "Merge" rule to combine the two episodes into one. If you don't like the name it is automatically given, you can type your own name in for it.

2. You actually want dots? :P I can extend the "filename character replacements" in the preferences to include any characters, rather than just one ones that aren't allowed in filenames. That way, you can make it replace spaces with dots, or anything with anything else. If you want to do a bit of a hack to make it do it now: quit tvrename, open up TVRenameSettings.xml, and find the <Replacements> section, and add:

<Replace
This=" "
That="." />

...then it will replace spaces with a dot for you. It should persist until at least when you next visit the preferences dialog.

(See here for where to find the settings XML file.)

1. Good idea. I could add some optional settings for defaults on things like that. So, if you had a 'standard' setup you'd use it, but if you had something unusual you could simply turn it off and do it manually (i.e. like it is now). An alternative way of getting the shows in, and set up correctly, is to make the folder on disk and then use the "Folder Monitor". It will see the new folder, figure out what the show is from its name, and set up an entry in "My Shows" with everything pre-filled for you.

sstteevvee

15-02-2009 18:46:59

Nothing like digging up an old thread! Replacing spaces with dots is now in the latest alpha, if you want to try it out.

alienspy

01-05-2010 23:17:34

Hi,

3. Two-Series- Episodes.
How to name double lenght episodes like My Name Is Earl S03E01 and S03E02 (http://www.thetvdb.com/forums/) in such way as to enable TV Renamer to recognise these files correctly? Otherwise, S03E02 is found in the Missing-Tab.



Hi,
must say love tvrename.
Is there any option that tvrename would in future recognize multi-episode files automatically?
I have two ideas how this could be realized:
1) checking for size or length of the file and request approval by user
2) when performing scan, and episode name (2) is missing, check with user, if file episode name (1) is a multi episode file and then rename it accordingly?

I must admit that for some series it is a pain in the a** to create custom rules... also happened twice now, that renaming worked but tvrename crashed and settings were lost, so files were missing again after next scan. So I had to ignore the series.

DedTV

02-05-2010 20:51:11

Is there any option that tvrename would in future recognize multi-episode files automatically?

It's on the list: http://tvrename.com/features/

The file size way has some issues that make it difficult to implement. First, TV Rename would have to start scanning and storing file sizes. And then there's all kinds of times where file sizes aren't consistent for reasons other than how many episodes there are. Like DVD ISOs. One may have 5 episodes and be 4.2GBs and another might have 4 episodes and some commentary tracks and be 4.3GB while another might have 1 episode and a bunch of extra and still be around the same size as the others.

Another common suggestion is to have it recognize a file like show.s01e02e03.avi as a multi episode show and automatically create a merge rule for it. The problem of course being, it would take a lot of RegEx to handle even the more common ways multi episode files are be named and requires the file be named somewhat correctly in the first place.

Another consideration is that The TVDB is considering adding file hashes to the updated site they're working on. If they do that, depending on how it's implemented, it could make for an easy way to handle them. But it remains to be seen if they actually do it and how reliable it will be. And it only works if your files come from common sources.

The two suggestions I like best, mostly because I feel they'd probably be a lot easier to implement, are:
- By same airdate (for series like Animinaics). Easiest way would be to have a "Merge all with same airdate" option for each season. A more robust, but complicated, option would be if you have episode 1 and episode 2 is missing, but they have the same air date, ask the user if they should be merged and then continue to ask for each subsequent missing episode until it gets to the next file you have, or the end of the season.
- "Merge with previous episode" right click command on the scan menu. That way, if you have Episode 2 on the missing list and it's supposed to be merged with episode 1, you could right click it on the missing list, do the merge, and the next time you run a scan it would would rename it as a merged episode. It's still a manual way of doing it, and you would have to scan, merge, scan, merge for things like Animaniacs episodes, but it's a bit more convenient then having to go through and define rules like we do now and likely a lot easier to implement without issues than something fully automatic.