Detecting TV shows with different naming systems

[skippy]

Hi,

I'm in the process of migrating all of my media to a Plex server, and it's a perfect opportunity for me to organise my library, as it is a bit of a mess.

Quite a lot of my TV shows have been renamed manually in the past, and as such don't have a standard naming system like "SxxEyy Name of Show Name of episode". In fact most of my shows are organised as follows:

Show Name/Season x/xyy - Episode Name.ext

I've been looking around on the forum to try to find a way of dealing with this but have had no luck so far. As yet the only thing I've actually tried is pointing

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filebot -rename

at my TV shows directory. The result of that was the renaming of 3 of the "Show Name" folders ("Cougar Town" to "The Town (2010)", "Frasier" to "Frasier the friendly lion").

Is there any way to get FileBot to play nicely with this system? The only thought I've had so far is renaming everything to a standard "SxxEyy.Name.of.show". Will that work? Bearing in mind I don't have Episode names for a lot of the content.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

EDIT: I'm fairly confident I'll be able to get FileBot to spit out the naming conventions I want, I just need help getting it to recognise the shows properly!

[rednoah]

1.
I recommend using the GUI. It's easier to use.

2.
FileBot doesn't rename folders. If you want to rename episodes you probably wanna specify --db TheTVDB especially for oddly named single files that are processed as movies otherwise.

3.
If you need scripting you can look into the amc script. Though you can script around simple filebot -rename --q <showname> yourself. If you automate things you absolutely do not want to use -non-strict in your first pass.