schaumburg
10-12-2011 01:12:53
Hi everyone,
I'm new to tvrename, so forgive me for a very basic question - but I've trawled through the user guide (which refers to a completely outdated organization?), and I cannot wrap my head around this.
I brief, I've got 239 mp4 files, and 239 episodes from thetvdb - but I can't get tvrename to match them up.
My situation is this:
I've got a large collection of (podcast downloaded) shows on disk, in directory c:\tvdownload (with subdirectories for each show). The .mp4 files are named using many different schemes - none of them being the generally accepted "<showname> S<nn>E<mm>.mp4" pattern.
One example of a filename is Soeinding_111122203030.mp4 (I suspect the pattern is SHOWNAME_YYMMDDHHMMSS.mp4), with YYMMDDHHMMSS being the airdate and -time).
I'd like to watch these shows using YAMJ, which positively requires standard naming of the mp4's. I was happy to have found tvrename, which seemed to allow me to manage and rename my podcast files.
But I cannot figure out how to use it!
Here's what I did:
I've added the shows in question to my "My shows" tab, and the correct info is downloaded from thetvdb.com. I've assigned a directory c:\tvrename\<showname> to each.
I've also told tvrename where my mp4's are (in "Options -> Preferences -> Search Folders" I've added c:\tvdownloads)
Now I just need to match the list of episodes in "My shows" with the MP4's in c:\tvdownloads, so I go to the "Scan" tab and press the "Scan" button. But it doesn't find a single match - all the episodes are listed as "missing"!
If I rename the files in c:\tvdownloads to follow the SnnEmm pattern, they are found and matched up nicely - but the whole point of the excercise is to avoid manual renaming!
It seems tvrename finds 239 episodes and 239 mp4's - but cannot match them up. Is there any way that I can help tvrename to do the match?
Or am I going about this in the wrong way?
/thanks
Thomas
I'm new to tvrename, so forgive me for a very basic question - but I've trawled through the user guide (which refers to a completely outdated organization?), and I cannot wrap my head around this.
I brief, I've got 239 mp4 files, and 239 episodes from thetvdb - but I can't get tvrename to match them up.
My situation is this:
I've got a large collection of (podcast downloaded) shows on disk, in directory c:\tvdownload (with subdirectories for each show). The .mp4 files are named using many different schemes - none of them being the generally accepted "<showname> S<nn>E<mm>.mp4" pattern.
One example of a filename is Soeinding_111122203030.mp4 (I suspect the pattern is SHOWNAME_YYMMDDHHMMSS.mp4), with YYMMDDHHMMSS being the airdate and -time).
I'd like to watch these shows using YAMJ, which positively requires standard naming of the mp4's. I was happy to have found tvrename, which seemed to allow me to manage and rename my podcast files.
But I cannot figure out how to use it!
Here's what I did:
I've added the shows in question to my "My shows" tab, and the correct info is downloaded from thetvdb.com. I've assigned a directory c:\tvrename\<showname> to each.
I've also told tvrename where my mp4's are (in "Options -> Preferences -> Search Folders" I've added c:\tvdownloads)
Now I just need to match the list of episodes in "My shows" with the MP4's in c:\tvdownloads, so I go to the "Scan" tab and press the "Scan" button. But it doesn't find a single match - all the episodes are listed as "missing"!
If I rename the files in c:\tvdownloads to follow the SnnEmm pattern, they are found and matched up nicely - but the whole point of the excercise is to avoid manual renaming!
It seems tvrename finds 239 episodes and 239 mp4's - but cannot match them up. Is there any way that I can help tvrename to do the match?
Or am I going about this in the wrong way?
/thanks
Thomas