Is there a way to have a preset pre-chosen at launch?

Well, you'd still have to load in files, though that can be pre-configured via Presets . I guess you have to set up a Presets and use "1" as keyboard shortcut. Then you just need to press "1" every time you launch FileBot to load and process ...

You can create a Presets for your preferred use case. That way you can switch rename action / format / language / order / etc with a single keyboard shortcut.

If you mean xattr metadata then you can check that easily via Filter tool. You can also use the Set Attributes menu item which is only there if the file at hand as xattr metadata.

You can verify the integrity of a FileBot package by checking the SHA-256 checksum. If you compute the checksum of the file at hand, and then compare it to the known checksum published on our public GitHub repository, then you can be sure that the file you have is exactly byte-for-byte the file ...

:idea: Nope, that file path by itself works just fine:
$ filebot -rename -r "Superman Collection" --db TheMovieDB --output .
[MOVE] from [Superman Collection/1978 Superman 188/Superman (1978).BLURAY.1080p.FHD.HEVC.10bit.DTS-d3g.[68AC17A3].mkv] to [Superman (1978).mkv]



:arrow: You can create a ...

You could use {tmdb-95057} S01E01 as ID for such purposes. That'd be better at identifying the episode and more human-readable compared to tt11608512 . The numeric TMDB Episode ID is available but again not all that useful, since TMDB itself doesn't even use the Episode ID for lookup purposes ...

Well, the problem with IMDB IDs is that they're a bit useless because IMDB in general is a bit useless, for programs anyway. You'll want TMDB / TVDB IDs because that's where we have APIs that can use those IDs to retrieve episode information.

It's very possible that the server can detect / guess if a human-operated browser is making the request or a robot, and then apply different rate-limiting / anti-abuse measures. The issue could also be completely unrelated. Your browser may also be using a different DNS service, thus connecting to a ...

:?: Can you paste the file name? (see Export Original Files / New Names as TSV )


:idea: Looks good to me:
$ filebot -rename Superman.1978.mkv
[MOVE] from [Superman.1978.mkv] to [Superman (1978).mkv]





:idea: If FileBot is adamant about immediately matching the completely wrong movie, then ...

FileBot generally only used series TMDB ID / IMDB ID. We generally don't support episode-level IMDB. I'm pretty sure that TMDB does not maintain IMDB IDs for episodes. The best I can give you is {episode.id} which will give you the numeric episode ID for your selected database. I would not use that ...

:idea: ConnectException is a fundamental network connection error unrelated to any specific version of FileBot, nor FileBot specifically, and simply means that the remote server does not accept connections at this time, for some reason, due to being down, due to your IP being blocked, impossible to ...

CORE.WEB-DL has been added.

What did the error say? Might be helpful for the next guy.

All of the above have been added to the list now.

What does the log say?

What are the file names you're working with?

Does "manual search" refer to using the FileBot Subtitles tool to manually search for subtitles or do you mean using the website?

Please read How to Request Help if you need help finding the log.

:?: What does the log say?


:?: What does the progress indicator / status say?


:idea: If there's a network issue, then FileBot might retry multiple times, perhaps for up to 10-20 seconds for each request. I suppose FileBot will do this for each requested artwork, failing and retrying requests ...

The only currently active license key associated with the email address you have used here in the forums is P79989290, a 1-year license newly purchased today.

You'll probably want to compare the numerical values:
If you compare string values, then "9" is greater than "10", which is probably not what we want here.

:idea: FileBot itself may not be aware of the implementation details of the underlying network connection (OSI Layer 1-6) because that is all happening on OS and JRE runtime layer, and so FileBot doesn't actually know what's going on, and can only forward the error message / error code it gets from ...

Try this:

I cannot fundamentally reproduce the issue. I made a up an example file name and it works just fine here:
$ filebot -rename *.mkv --db AniDB
Rename episodes using [AniDB] with [Absolute Order]
Lookup via [Cowboy Bebop] [Cowboy Bebop]
Fetching episode data for [Cowboy Bebop]
* Cowboy Bebop [23] | 26 ...

FileBot has x64 / Intel and arm64 / Apple Silicon binaries, so you can download the one for your platform:
https://www.filebot.net/download.html


:idea: FileBot notably does not have - and at this point never will have - universal binaries that contain both x64 and arm64 code in a single package ...

You can enable full debug logging to see all the HTTP request / response messages via the advanced settings.

However, you have a fundamental network connection error, maybe a DNS issue, maybe *.fanart.tv servers being down or blocked by your ISP, etc. You would have to use something like wireshark ...

What is your custom format?


The .forced / .SDH / etc is not default behaviour, but is the behaviour you get if your use {subt} in your custom format, or {plex} as your custom format.

macOS 13.7.8 and up should be fine. We hope to fix compatibility issues with macOS 10.15.8 with the next release.