How do I edit the built-in subt

[rrspurlock]

A quick question... how/where do I edit the built in subt? Is this possible?

Thank you!

[rednoah]

Built-in bindings such as {lang} and {subt} subtitle language tag cannot be edited. You can however just not use built-in binding and write your own code instead.


What are you trying to achieve? Feel free to elaborate.

[rrspurlock]

That is very helpful - I've been searching too long!

I would like to expand the file name pattern matching for subtitles and then new names. As an example:

1_eng,English.srt
2_eng,English [Forced].srt
3_eng,English [SDH].srt

... all three are mapped & renamed to:

Title.eng
Title.eng
Title.eng

If I rename the Forced and SDH files producing:

1_eng,English.srt
2_eng,English-Forced.srt
3_eng,English-SDH.srt

... the are mapped & renamed to:

Title.eng
Title.eng.forced
Title.eng.SDH

So if I rename the files before FileBot matching, works like a charm as configured. I was curious if I could produce the final file names without pre-renaming them before add/matching in FileBot.

[rednoah]

Well, this is pretty bad and unusual...

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1_eng,English.srt
2_eng,English [Forced].srt
3_eng,English [SDH].srt

If you all your files follow this pattern, then Match information from the file path is the way to go:

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{
	if (f.subtitle) '.' + fn.match(/_([a-z]{3}),/)
}
{
	if (f.subtitle) '-' + fn.match(/\[(.+)\]$/)
}

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.eng-Forced

[rrspurlock]

I completely agree - honestly, these source filenames are frustrating to deal with.

Where would I be "pasting" this code? And would this be applied to every file individually?

Thank you so much - this is amazing!!!

[rednoah]

You'd add it to your custom format:
https://www.filebot.net/naming.html





I recommend spending ~15min watching all the video tutorials if you're new as this will save you time in the long run:
https://www.filebot.net/tutorials.html

[rrspurlock]

I greatly appreciate your help - this completely rocked!!!

Thank you so much - FileBot is just amazing!!!

[rrspurlock]

Oops, one more... this is what I have:

{drive}/Media/{plex.id}
{
if (f.subtitle) '.' + fn.match(/_([a-z]{3}),/)
}
{
if (f.subtitle) '-' + fn.match(/\[(.+)\]$/)
}

... is producing:

Title.eng.eng
Title.eng.eng-Forced
Title.eng.eng-SDH

What syntax change would remove the additional ".eng"?

Appreciate your patience and assistance here.

[rednoah]

The {plex} format already includes the subtitle language and subtitle tags if the file names allow for auto-detection to work. So if your custom code then adds another ".eng" then you will end up with ".eng.eng".


This code matches this bit: 2_eng,English [Forced].srt (i.e. the 3 lower-case letters between _ and , characters; you can remove this bit of code if you don't want to match this bit from the file name)

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{
	if (f.subtitle) '.' + fn.match(/_([a-z]{3}),/)
}

This code matches this bit: 2_eng,English [Forced].srt (i.e. the letters enclosed in [...] at the end of the file name; you can remove this bit of code if you don't want to match this bit from the file name)

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{
	if (f.subtitle) '-' + fn.match(/\[(.+)\]$/)
}

If your files names are good enough for {plex} to work, then you don't need some or all of your Match information from the file path custom code.


If you want {plex} but not the subtitle bit (if any; so you can add that bit yourself with your own custom code) then the manual will help you get started:

e.g. Movies/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009) (i.e. {plex} without subtitle language suffix)

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{ plex ^ null }

e.g. Movies/A/Æon Flux (2005)/Æon Flux (2005)

[rrspurlock]

Okay, got it - these apply sequentially. Removing the first of the two stanzas nailed it and provided normal FileBot excellence on the other file types and the base name.

FileBot is simply fantastic!