FileBot

DarfNader

Hi, I am installing FileBot on an MacBook Pro M3 running Sonoma 14.3 and it will not run.

If I install it via homebrew, the app fails with the message "Filebot" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

I the ran "brew rm --zap filebot" which deleted all of my prefs and ...

DarfNader

I've never heard about SetList.fm so I can only say that FileBot has no support for that API.

That's kind of what I expected. setlist.fm has been around for well over a decade but I think its API support is a recent development. Since concert sets are can be more "subjective", especially if the ...

DarfNader

Over the years I've amassed many terabytes of files, most of which are HD music concerts

I am in the same boat - in fact I was looking for answers to the same question and found this thread. I am mostly concerned with trying to just find concert metadata to establish set lists or at least ...

DarfNader

Having only just now discovered the Keeplink, I have to say it's a superb feature. So much thought went into Filebot!

DarfNader

If I am using the GUI Rename function, can I get a format variable or functional equivalent for the track numbers as they appear in the order in "Original Files". Normally, one would strip the number from the file name but a lot of live recordings have track numbers that reflect their origin from ...

DarfNader

Just found this thread and it's remarkably helpful. I had no idea that AccoustID was so accurate. As you said, everyone likes to format their music differently, especially with live music, but I wanted your advice about including information in the format when it isn't available elsewhere. While ...

DarfNader

Just found this thread and it's remarkably helpful. I had no idea that AccoustID was so accurate. As you said, everyone likes to format their music differently, especially with live music, but I wanted your advice about including information in the format when it isn't available elsewhere. While ...

DarfNader

I guess much of what I was hoping for does actually appear in AccousticID so maybe what I am asking for is done. I have come upon case where it doesn't work, presumably because it's an unusual recording. In any case, good on you for thinking ahead... amazing that it does work for many cases. Wish I ...

DarfNader

For the past year Filebot would nicely crawl through all media and supporting info when I dropped a folder in or loaded it. However, having to apply some ownership and permissions fixes my to "unmanaged media" collection (which really shouldn't have changed things much), for some reason - and it may ...

DarfNader

maybe wrong xattr data ?.... try this:
Clear xattr
filebot -script fn:xattr --action clear /path/to/files
https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5#p5394

Couldn't say. I just received the license last week to use the CL as I bought it from the App Store (whoops) so I am going to ...

DarfNader

MaxP wrote: 13 Oct 2019, 13:02 Try adding something realistic that everyone can relate to.

Something... realistic? Should I bring the head next time as proof?

DarfNader

Thanks for the tip on snipboard.io... I actually don't think it was necessary in this case but good info regardless.

When I try a match on any Move DB, using shift-click on a DB or not, I always get this:
https://snipboard.io/ATSOzi.jpg

If I try to use a TV Series DB I at best get some cartoon ...

DarfNader

That's strange because no matter what I do the match is as I described. So you don't upload images I can't easily give you the screen-shot, but suffice it say I cannot change the behavior initially described that I see in the GUI, so if the CL does the same, then I guess I am wasting my time for ...

DarfNader

Thanks, I will try the CL version (about time I started scripting it anyway) but when I try to run it (previously installed) filebot complains about permissions, what directory is it complaining about? The current working directory directory is demonstrably writable so I am unclear what it's ...

DarfNader

Okay, please don't judge my cinematic taste but I have seen some peculiar behavior in Plex due to something with how they use external agents https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/9oq6nd/antman_and_the_wasp_not_showing/ (and of course no one is coping to there actually being a problem and I think ...

DarfNader

I have the same question as I have never been able to pick a single episode of a matched TV series to apply to a single episode file. I have tried dragging, copying and pasting the, but I cannot seem to pick a single episode to match with a file. Draging the single title brings the entire episode ...

DarfNader

I manage two different formats that I use for episodes in my Plex library. Because I am a lazy sack and since Señor Filebot is downright prescient, this has always been just fine for run-of-the-mill TV and streaming:
/Volumes/Plex/Plex Media Server/Plex Media/TV Shows/{Plex}

Then I started to ...

DarfNader

I was able to just add the extension manually. It was just a few files. Since it was not working I stopped and asked you.

Thanks for the explanation for what "Override" meant in the Rename Options. I was totally at a loss for what that meant, but what you're saying makes sense. I just had no idea ...

DarfNader

Hi,

After that last reply, I can see that I am touching on a nerve with you and I don't mean to make you annoyed with me insofar that you think that I want a "personal button" to do it "my way". I genuinely have been trying my best to learn how to do it in accordance to your design, as much as I ...

DarfNader

Do you have example file paths I could use for testing? Nobody else seems to have that particular use case.

It's not that relevant. The are named very poorly but I can make them out as I have a file that matches the filenames to the correct show and episode name.

This use case is not well ...

DarfNader

I am using Filebot on a fresh installation of MacOS and wanted to renamed some files using the "Rename" mode. The first thing I did after loading some files to rename was to set up the formatting and target directory location which I initially couldn't for the life of me remember. (I only figured it ...

DarfNader

Hi! I need go through my media one at a time now because none of the episode matching that happens automatically seems to be working. What I need to to be able to do is pick a specific episode from a series which I want one or more files renamed to match. I can't seem to find a clear way to do that ...

DarfNader

Next time I get one I will do so. I was not aware of that.

I just downloaded the latest version from the App store and I immediately discovered that in "Episodes", the secondary click is no longer working so you cannot bring up the menu you'd normally see which lets you send a title to "Rename ...

DarfNader

Okay, this time I captured the exception:

DarfNader

AARGHHH!!! After I start rename it barely gets started and fails on an exception. That is the second time this has happened.

I am losing all hope at this point.

(I was not able to screen grap because the error disappeared before I could snag it.)

Are there logs anywhere?

I tried doing it again ...

DarfNader

After going through a mess of manual matching I am getting a dialogue saying there are conflicting files where there aren't any.

Foe example, here is one I copied from here:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=18JzKrDmpcwtyERkPMpNAueZKJsfuREZ6
javax.swing.ImageIcon@5bb5512d Duplicate ...

DarfNader

FYI. I tried this on another Mac using 10.13.4 as well and running FileBot 4.7.19 (5305) and I am having the same issue with the focus jumping around as seen in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9p1NWW5yUg

DarfNader

Regarding "FAQ #1" above, was able to get shift-click and force match with Rifftrax with helped and while there were a number of titles that didn't get resolved, I am figuring out how FileBot makes its matches and am finding that it's easier to edit the titles of the original files or containing ...

DarfNader

So is --action hardlink the only way to get something close to --dry-run with Runbot? I can appreciate this approach as it at least doesn't touch the source files, but it still creates stuff which might pollute existing libraries if you make a mistake and write files to locations with existing media ...

DarfNader

Also, regarding the CLI, I was reviewing your doc page https://www.filebot.net/cli.html and I don't see a way to do a "dry run". I figure this is going to be a lot of trial and error so doing simulations for testing is going to be critical. Is this possible?

I see lots of posts in the forums about ...

DarfNader

Had some troubles using the thingy that selects the target directory for renaming: https://youtu.be/7usbMiYQLt0

The adventure continues...

DarfNader

When you last replied, I was still assembling my previous update with all of those screenshots. (I didn't realize how much of a PITA using Google Drive would be for hosting images- I should have just put them on Imgur... crazy how they make it so difficult to do the most basic stuff. You need to go ...

DarfNader

I am glad there is another way, because aside from being cumbersome, it was not even working. Maybe a bug? Anyway? When I was manually matching some files they would "disappear" moving, where the same pattern worked for other files. Here are the screen caps:
1) I wanted to just rename ONE SINGLE ...

DarfNader

SoI am just doing the files one at time with a single match but there are problems.
1. While the .mkv file worked fine, trying the same one the .nfo file sent the file to god knows where. Revert doesn't work or can it find it. Since the bottom pain of the revert window doesn't expand I can't see the ...

DarfNader

Also, it doesn't look like you can enable "hidden" folders in the file selector in "Input Folder" and "Includes" when trying to set up a preset.

DarfNader

So what does "Do select files" and "Use orignal files" selection actually do differently? I think I missed that explanation.

DarfNader

I thought I described it pretty clearly and mentioned that it was Rifftrax. Since I found the screenshots in the documentation not that helpful for their lack of verbage, I assumed it would be just as cryptic to try rely on that for you. Sorry that you feel that it wasted your time.

Anyway It's all ...

DarfNader

Here is the video in Vimeo. It's about 5 minutes. I hope it clarifies the rudimentary problems I am having.

https://vimeo.com/264777519

DarfNader

I tried to get it in screen shots so I just made a movie instead, but of course none of MacOS's share integration from quicktime play actually works, at least not for YouTube or Vimeo. I normally use Monosnap but it is misbehaving.

Basically, aside from all of the other problems, the big one is how ...

DarfNader

So what is "List" for?

Anyway, this is not working out so well. I am trying to manually match episodes of Rifftrax which simply do not match correctly. The folder is full of episodes with the usual mix of junk in them, namely samples, info files, and so on. I am trying to match the episode files to ...

DarfNader

Thanks so much for all of that very helpful advice. I will see how I do and get back to you as it gives me a lot of ideas.

DarfNader

What I am trying to do first is start with a "cleanup" of my existing and vast collection of organized but poorly named media so that Plex will automatically load the metadata for each title without a struggle. I am finding that Plex has gotten more "picky" about following its naming standard which ...

DarfNader

Yes, having to deal with a source -> destination situation was something I was trying to avoid. Looks like that's not an option.

Good to know about the cleaner script as well. I think trying to do this on the command line is going to work a lot more easily for me as that's more how I think. The GUI ...

DarfNader

So when FileBot moves my media to neatly arranged folders and files, the remainder of the stuff (samples and other junk) as well as the old folders remain. Is there some way to just have that stuff either carried over or thrown our? I assume filters does this, but I cannot figure out how any of the ...

DarfNader

Wow, so it's a separate app then... okay. Now that I have it working to the extent that it works, is there some way to have it invoked automatically from FileBot or do I have to script it to work? How about so it only downloads SRTs for files that don't already have that SRT already as part of the ...

DarfNader

Never mind, I see that for macOS you need this I guess: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3350

DarfNader

I am in the process of fixing my existing library which is a mish-mash of names and I am finding a lot of features missing, don't make sense, or require repetitive configuration. The media is on a NAS and I am using a macOS machine to access the files over CIFS. Here is what I have so far:

I tried ...

DarfNader

In the intro as well as the pictogram slides there is clear implication that FileBot allows you to download subtitles for your media. The intro pictures that just have numbers (and no instruction) even have an icon for an entire Subtitles function which simply is not present in the version I bought ...

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