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:idea: The target file path is entirely up to your custom format. Did you read Conditional Structures (if-then-else) yet?

I'm thinking of an "if/then" command that, during renaming, moves Blu-rays (or ISO, or DVDs) into separate folders

:?: How do you know if a given file / folder is a BD / DVD ...

... to do what you want? We previously established lots of building blocks that you can use, and can modify to fit your needs as necessary.

e.g. Conditional Structures (if-then-else) to do various checks one after another and return the first value that fits any of your checks:
{
// If an audio ...

phileeny wrote: ↑11 Jan 2026, 16:06 I tried "genre(s)" but that didn't work

What have you tried? What didn't work? What movie(s) did you run tests with?

e.g. Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

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{ genres ==~ /Documentary|News/ ? 'U:/Documentaries/' : 'T:/TV Shows/' }

... guess is that you mean to differentiate Documentary-type TV shows (i.e. Séries ) from other not-Documentary-type TV shows (i.e. Emissions ) so a Conditional Structure (if-then-else) is in order to generate different folder paths depending on the TV show at hand:
{ "Documentary" in genres ? "Séries ...

:idea: You can use Conditional Structures (if-then-else) like so:

e.g. add {vc} video codec if {vcf} video codec standard is AVC aka h.264 :
{ if (vcf == /AVC/) ' [' + vc + ']' }

e.g. add [NOT HEVC] if {vcf} is not HEVC :
{ if (vcf != /HEVC/) ' [NOT HEVC]' }
↑↑ this probably better captures ...

Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

... any other. Your format can still move different episodes into different folders depending on the genre, keywords, origin country, etc by using Conditional Structures (if-then-else) to generate different file paths (e.g. some with a TV Shows folder, some with a Anime folder) as desired.

:idea ...

... VR / etc differently from other content, assuming there is some way to tell which is which. The {s3d} binding, the MediaInfo Inspector , and Conditional Structures (if-then-else) will get you started.

B.
FileBot does not have the concept of a confidence score. You'll want to use Strict Mode if ...

:arrow: I think you mean to name files based on the original language according to the database, and not the audio stream language:
{ language ==~ /deu/ ? localize.de.n : n }

:arrow: Checking if the file only contains German language audio streams is of course possible too:
{ audioLanguages ...

ye62dzec

This works almost perfectly. Is there a way to check whether it's the only languague?

This movie is not correctly renamed:

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N:\Filme\Flüstern des Meeres - Ocean Waves (1994) - [DE, JA] [1080p x264] [5.1GB]\Flüstern des Meeres - Ocean Waves (1994) - [DE, JA] [1080p x264] [5.1GB].mkv

e.g.

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{ audio.language =~ /de/ ? localize.de.n : n }

ye62dzec

... know I can use the {localize} binding for German titles, but I'm not sure how to combine this with a check of unique {audioLanguages} to make it conditional. Can you help me modify my format to implement this logic?

Currently getting:
[deu]/[DE] → Should use German title
anything else → Should keep ...

e.g.

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{ vc == 'x264' ? 'F:/Movies (x264)' : 'I:/Movies' }/{ ~plex.id }

Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

SergeiAK

... available in TMDB i prefer English instead original title.
For example this Italian movie: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1959). TMDB has not Russian titles.
I understand how Conditional Structures works, but my question is how to set condition: if title in Russian is not found in TMDB or TVDB......

Do you have a specific example? Which movie? Which non-English language?

e.g. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) in Spanish

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{
	language =~ /spa/ ? primaryTitle : n
}

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El laberinto del fauno

Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

... you'll want do start with something like this:
{ plex.id % { if (height > 2000) ' [4K]' } }
NOTE: In this case, we do not simply append "4K" to the file name, and instead only add "4K" to video files that actually have a 4K video resolution. See Conditional Structures (if-then-else) for details.

Everything is always possible, this one is easy too:

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{ edition != 'Remastered' ? " {edition-$edition}" : null }

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{ none{ edition.match(/Extended|Theatrical|Remastered/) } ? " {edition-$edition}" : null }

Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

:arrow: Moving files to different folders based on some condition is very easy. See Conditional Structures (if-then-else) for details and examples:

e.g. Move 4K movies and normal movies into different folders:
{ height > 2000 ? '4K Movies' : 'Movies' }

:arrow: If you want to only select ...

Yes, you can use {genres} to access the list of genres from the database and the generate file paths accordingly.

e.g. Conditional Structures (if-then-else)

e.g. Move Documentary episodes and normal TV series episodes into different folders:
{ genre ==~ /Documentary|News/ ? 'Documentaries' : 'TV ...

zhyp

... only the seriessub.eng, causing a big problem (even overwriting some language codes along the way), resulting on something like this at the end: "seriessub.eng [1080p-BluRay].srt".
I did thinker with conditional statements, but couldn't get it to work properly without causing extra problems.
Thanks.

... example? i.e. TMDB link for one movie that only has "Documentary" in the genre list, and another that has multiple genres?

In general, Conditional Structures (if-then-else) can be arbitrarily complex and check for multiple things if that's what you want:
{ genres[0] == 'Documentary ...

... Author/Title(year)/Title

Possible. But how do you know if a book is part of a series of books? Based on ID3 Tags ? Based on file name patterns? Based on other files in the same folder? Anything is possible, if you can express the condition in code .

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Xvonmox

What if you are trying to include a conditional argument IF a genre exists?
For example FileBot gives off the following error when trying to reference the {genre} tag in the naming format on the TV Show "Parking Wars".
Binding "genre": NoSuchElementException

Using your example from above...

{any ...

yellowdaemon

... False, 'translate artist names': False, 'line 1': {'source': 'album_soloists, album_ensembles, album_conductors', 'tag': 'artist, artists', 'conditional': False}, 'line 2': {'source': 'recording_artists', 'tag': 'artist, artists', 'conditional': True}, 'line 3': {'source': 'soloist_names ...

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