non-sequential multi-episode files

[thu]

I've been able to find format examples in the other forum threads to cover most of my different renaming needs. The only one I'm not having any luck on is using TVDB to rename cartoon series. It can be a real mess. Cartoons often have 3 short segments in 1 video file. TVDB treats each segment as a separate episode. Usually not a problem with {s00e00}.

But, SO many series I have have episode files with segments that are not sequential. Like:

show - s01e06e17e52.mkv
show - s01e12e33e45.mkv
show - s01e33s02e06e23.mkv

The regular {s00e00} doesn't seem to be picking those up. Is there anyway to handle a special case like that?

I'm manually editing each file to match the TVDB s00e00 numbers. Was hoping FileBot could then fix it up nice with the titles and dates.

Here's what I've been using for series and episodes.

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{n} - {s00e00.lower().removeAll("-")} - {t} ({airdate}) [dvd]

A related question to that naming scheme. It will take an episode with 3 consecutive episodes and rename it like this:
show s01e01e02e03.mkv
becomes
show s01e01-e03 title a & title b & title c.mkv

How can I get it to show the middle episode number? I need it to show all 3 for a cataloguing program I use.

Other than these 2 cases, FileBot has been working flawlessly for me. Really loving it. Just can't figure these 2 out.

[rednoah]

If the episodes are out of order then FileBot won't recognise it as a multi-episode file.

Nothing you can do in the format to fix that after the fact.

Check Airdate or DVD order and see if one of them matches better. But random episodes randomly packed into the same file out of order is definitely not supported by FileBot (or any other media centre).

[thu]

Thanks rednoah. Was afraid of that. At least I can manually make a text file with proper names and then have FileBot use the file to rename all the video files. That will still save a good amount of time.

[rednoah]

Depending on what exactly it is you wanna do, Plain File Mode may be helpful for match renaming files according to your own rules:
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