Request for specifying tmdb id for specified folder

[gdlk]

When dealing with directories of certain TV series where the naming conventions are non-standard, it becomes challenging to modify filenames due to requirements like seeding in private trackers (PT). Consequently, using FileBot's automatic matching may result in incorrect episode associations. So, I hope that one can enforce matching to a user-specified TV series by specifing the TMDb ID directly in command line for certain folders. This approach will facilitates automated updates for each episode without altering the original filenames.

[rednoah]

it becomes challenging to modify filenames due to requirements like seeding in private trackers (PT)

You'll want to not move / rename files that are in use by another application. You'll want to use hardlinks so that you can have the same file at 2 or more file paths without using any additional disk space.


All of the above is fairly unrelated to a given match being correct or incorrect, so I'm not sure how the problem of seeding files after renaming / hardlinking fits into specifying a specific TMDB ID for matching.

I hope that one can enforce matching to a user-specified TV series by specifing the TMDb ID directly in command line for certain folders.

You can call different commands for different files or folders. See How do I process specific files with specific command-line options? for details and examples.


e.g. select files that have Alias in the file path and then match these files with TheTVDB and then move them to a dedicated /tvdb output folder:

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filebot -rename -r /input --output /tvdb --format "{plex.id}" --db TheTVDB --file-filter "f =~ /Alias/" --q 75930

A *.nfo file in the given folder will also - for better or worse - force specific TMDB ID for series lookup and matching.

[gdlk]

--q ID is just what I want!
Thank you very much!

By the way, in my case I use symlink instead of hardlink.