Is there a way to get the genre of a collection?

[Punt]

Title.

For example, I have

• The Matrix 1999 (genre=Action)
• The Matrix Roloaded 2003 (genre=Adventure)
• The Matrix Revolutions 2003 (genre= Adventure)

Is it possible to order my films like

• Films/Genre/ all films (less collection films)
• Films/Genre/CollectionName/collection films

So that for example for Matrix it would be
Films/Adventure/TheMatrixCollection/ the 3 films

Because if I just use {genre}
it would be the genre of the film, and so The Matrix 1999 would be in /Action/TheMatrixCollection and the other two would be in /Adventure/TheMatrixCollection ...


+ Quick question : Is it possible to order alphabetically {audioLanguages} ? Because sometimes I get [fra, eng] and sometimes [eng, fra].

Thanks!

[rednoah]

1.
I'm pretty sure TheMovieDB doesn't have metadata like that for collections.

If you process the complete collection in one go, then you could use the {model} to just use the {genre} of the first related match:

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{model.find{ it.collection == collection }.genre}

viewtopic.php?t=9814


2.
Sort audioLanguages using natural order:

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{audioLanguages.toSorted()}

[Punt]

Thanks for your quick answer.

The {model} is doing the job.
But not .toSorted() ...

I have

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Films/
{any{model.find{ it.collection == collection }.genre}{genre}}/
{collection}/
{audioLanguages.toSorted()} {ny.upperInitial()} - {vf}.{channels}.sub{textLanguages.toSorted()}.{ext}

As you can see, there's still a problem :


Edit:

I tried with an order :

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{
	def langueOrder = ['eng': 1, 'fra': 2]
	audioLanguages.toSorted{ langueOrder[it] }
}

And result :

[rednoah]

Not sure what's going on there.

I guess explicitly sorting by 3-letter language code will work more reliably:

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{audioLanguages.toSorted{ it.ISO3 }}

Using a custom priority map as sort order makes sense though. Since you probably want custom sort order of languages, rather than plain alphabetic sort order.

[Punt]

Thanks! ISO3 did the job.
I'm happy with my current films collection, I used :

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Films/
{any{'Marvel Studios' in info.productionCompanies ? 'Marvel Movie' : null}{model.find{ it.collection == collection }.genre}{genre}}/
{collection}/
{ny.upperInitial()} {audioLanguages.toSorted{it.ISO3}} - {vf}.{channels}.sub{textLanguages.toSorted{it.ISO3}}.{ext}

I feel like collection's genre could be better, and that would cool if we could choose a list of favorite genres because...

There's a lot of genres haha.

While trying to find a good format, I had some trouble to match a local film with a TheMovieDb film. I was trying to have something like the year first {y} then {audioLanguages} (ex: (2018) [fra,eng] movieName) and guess it had trouble using movies' name with with the previous information.

I think it could be a good idea to have a place where we could share some tips about this tool, so that people don't waste time trying to use the tool! If I had read a tip like "By passing the name of a movie at the very beggining of your format, It'll help the tool -in the future- to directly re-match movies with TheMovieDb" it would have win me some time lol.

But in the end, super cool tool! I was like "Well, my film collection is a big mess. Maybe I'll try to develop a tool to reformate the name and try to order film by genre or something like that." Then I found FileBot. Thanks for the good work!

[rednoah]

1.
Customizing and prioritizing genres can be done. It’s a bit more code-y though.

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6068#p34992


2.
Since FileBot will store xattr metadata, FileBot will always be able to identify the file later regardless of the filename. Good naming is always a great good idea though.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=324#p2248

[Punt]

Hey I'm back

So how am I supposed to use the sorted genre ? I tried

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H:/Mes Films/
{any{'Marvel Studios' in info.productionCompanies ? 'Marvel Movie' : null}{model.find{ it.collection == collection }.genre}
{
	def genreOrder = ['Animation': 1, 'Comedy': 2, 'Horror': 3, 'Science-Fiction': 4, 'Adventure': 5, 'Romance': 6, 'Drama': 7, 'Action': 8].withDefault{ 100 }
	genres.toSorted{ genreOrder[it] }[0]
}}/
{collection}/
{ny.upperInitial()} {audioLanguages.toSorted{it.ISO3}} - {vf}.{channels}.sub{textLanguages.toSorted{it.ISO3}}

But it's not working

[rednoah]

1.
What exactly is "it" and how does "working" look different from "not working".


2.
I recommend doing things bit by bit, so that "it" doesn't refer to everything, and instead refers to something very specific.

Here's an example test case for testing that "sorting genres by given order" works correctly:

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{
	// An example list of genres in random order
	def genres = ['Action', 'Test', 'Comedy', 'Horror', 'Animation']

	def genreOrder = ['Animation': 1, 'Comedy': 2, 'Horror': 3, 'Science-Fiction': 4, 'Adventure': 5, 'Romance': 6, 'Drama': 7, 'Action': 8].withDefault{ 100 }
	genres.toSorted{ genreOrder[it] }
	// OUTPUT: [Animation, Comedy, Horror, Action, Test]
}

[Punt]

Hey,

So... It was working actually... The problem was in my def genreOrder I had english genres... But I was using French settings !

Buuuut...
I tried to change my naming file

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{ny}

to

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{y} - {n.upperInitial()}

like I said in a post

I think it could be a good idea to have a place where we could share some tips about this tool, so that people don't waste time trying to use the tool! If I had read a tip like "By passing the name of a movie at the very beggining of your format, It'll help the tool -in the future- to directly re-match movies with TheMovieDb" it would have win me some time lol.

It fucked my matching to TheMovieDB...

Before changing that I had 0 manual match to do... And now a lot...

[rednoah]

Name (Year) is most highly recommended, especially if you use Plex or Kodi or any other software that interprets the file names to make sense of things.