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.
Manual Matching: Multiple episodes per file
Re: Multiple episodes per file
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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.
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.
Please read the FAQ and How to Request Help.
Re: Multiple episodes per file
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.
e; nope, neither works so far.
Re: Multiple episodes per file
Works out of the box:
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
Code: Select all
$ 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
Please read the FAQ and How to Request Help.
Re: Multiple episodes per file
Aha, excellent - you're right, that works like a charm. Muchos gracias! \o/
Re: Manual Matching: Multiple episodes per file
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
Read this:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-naming-sc ... bot/121538
Please read the FAQ and How to Request Help.