FileBot

Hi,

I have 3 seasons of The Twilight Zone in which each segment of each episode has been split into separate files. Sometimes there are 2 (suffixed "a" & "b") and sometimes there are 3 ("a", "b" & "c"). I want to avoid merging the files together (mostly as it will be boring to do so).

For example:
I used Plex to play media, so I want to rename the files to work with that. Plex will then merge them together as a single episode when playing them. That means renaming to the following (or somewhat close):
For movies, there is "pi" for "type==MoviePart", but that doesn't seem to work for episodes.

Any advice on how to go about this?

Peter.

1.
You won't get lucky here, because 1x01b is incorrect and doesn't match the database:
2.
In general, the {di} duplicate index binding could be useful in cases where the exact same episode matches multiple files and you want to add a sequential number.


3.
You might be able to come up with some creative hacks for pre-processing files. Useful when SxE numbers don't make sense.

Well gosh Made the mistake of checking IMDB and not TheTVDB. IMDB lists the episodes as a single episode per broadcast, whereas TheTVDB lists them split into each segment. Which I guess is technically wrong, but super handy for me at the moment ^_^

Handy to learn of {di}, though. Not come across that before. Thanks!

I ended up using the GUI to do the rename using Filebot's Episodes feature to get the list of episodes and a bit of jiggling with the files to get them in the right order. Done in about 10 minutes total thanks to Filebot.