Manual Matching: Multiple episodes per file

[Whatever]

I've looked, but can't find anything useful or comprehensible about this - I'm sure I can't be the first person to ask though...

I have lots of old TV series I need to rename to work with Plex, but for which some files contain multiple episodes. How do I get Filebot to understand that more than one episode is contained in a single file, and can it apply the appropriate naming conventions once I do? Ta.

[rednoah]

1.
Screenshots or example file paths please. Read How to Request Help for details.

2.
FileBot will understand common multi-episode patterns, such as S01E01E02 or 1x01x02 etc, and thus work as expected out of the box in most cases.

[Whatever]

Thanks for the speedy response. https://postimg.cc/s1hDBG2h <-- screenshot of example issue. Have followed the S02E01E02 format, but it's not picking it up. I'll see if the 'x' format works better.

e; nope, neither works so far.

[rednoah]

Works out of the box:

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$ filebot -rename *.mkv --q 'Doctor Who'
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Fetching episode data for [Doctor Who]
[MOVE] from [Doctor Who s02e01e02e03.mkv] to [Doctor Who - 2x01 & 2x02 & 2x03 - Planet of Giants & Dangerous Journey & Crisis.mkv]
Processed 1 files

The behaviour I see in the screenshot doesn't make sense, UNLESS you're manually matching files / episodes via the Episode panel, which does not seem to be mentioned in the OP.


Here's how automatic matching works, and multi-episode files will just work out of the box:



Here's what you seem to be doing:



In the latter case, multi-episode files are indeed not supported, since there's no way to merge episode objects manually.



Since you're using Plex, you'll want to use the {plex} format, otherwise you'll be wasting your time renaming files for Plex in the wrong format that Plex might not understand well. Read this: https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-naming-sc ... bot/121538

[Whatever]

Aha, excellent - you're right, that works like a charm. Muchos gracias! \o/

[rednoah]

Since you're using Plex, you'll want to use the {plex} format, otherwise you'll be wasting your time renaming files for Plex in the wrong format.

Read this:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-naming-sc ... bot/121538

[rednoah]

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