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.. those episodes are never recognized unless you provide proper season/episode number.
(at least those downloaded with mediathek view)

Example:

Tatort called: Falke - 13 - Die goldene Zeit (in thetvdb)
Tatort downloaded filename: Tatort - Die goldene Zeit

So the Problem seems to be the different naming at the beginning ..
Is there any solution filebot could find them even the beginning is missing ?

thanks ...

So you have file where the series name is Falke but it should actually be Tatort?


You could do a generic pre-rename step to replace Falke with Tatort in all the filenames:
viewtopic.php?t=2072

no, unfortunately not..

I have a file named:
"Tatort - Die goldene Zeit.mp4"
"Seriesname - Episodename.mp4"

in TVdb the
Seriesname: "Tatort"
Episodename: "Falke - 13 - Die goldene Zeit"

so all files have always the end of TVdb title as episode title but without the beginning: "Falke - 13 - "
the "falke -13" isn´t always the same .. so I can´t just simply add this to all filenames ..

As far as I can tell, Tatort - Die goldene Zeit.mp4 works out of the box:
Adding --lang German is probably a good idea if we already know that we wanna match German episode titles.

you are right unfortunately this was a bad example because it was the most current episode
it takes quite long, but it is found you are right..
it looks like it only works for pretty current episodes maybe only the current season??

I am using the current mac version (from app store). no command line but the UI.

Example: I dragged those files to Filebot Rename UI:

Tatort - Altlasten.mp4
Tatort - Anne und der Tod.mp4
Tatort - Baum fällt.mp4
Tatort - Bombengeschäft.mp4
Tatort - Borowski und das Haus am Meer.mp4
Tatort - Borowski und der brennende Mann.mp4
Tatort - Brüder.mp4
Tatort - Das Leben nach dem Tod.mp4
Tatort - Der Elefant im Raum.mp4
Tatort - Der Eskimo.mp4

I tried TheTVdb and TheMoviedb

For more than 1hr there was the turning wheel without any result, then a stopped the program.
then I tried only the first one "Tatort - Altlasten.mp4" -> after about 20minutes I go a result which was completely wrong:
"Tatort - Lannert 21 - Der rote Schatten" -> you can see, there is not even one word matching !

thanks so much for your help !

by the way: this series is the only one I get that much trouble ... maybe because it has over 50 seasons an over 1000 episodes?

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Tigrecito wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 16:00 this series is the only one I get that much trouble ... maybe because it has over 50 seasons an over 1000 episodes?

Yep, title matching doesn't scale well if titles don't match exactly, so finding the best one takes a while, if there's an unusual amount of possibilities, because we have to check all of them all, and it probably won't work anyway at this point.


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Manual Matching will work best in this case:
https://youtu.be/btNSv7AnMMw

You can copy & paste selected Episode items from Episodes panel into Rename panel and then align them manually.

thanks, but I don´t know how to do that...

I tried what you posted... when I drag the episodes I have more than 1000 episodes there .. so manually assign is no option.
and automatic then again runs for ages with complete wrong titles ..

or did I miss you ?
maybe a search (better: filter option) option would be great? so I can search for part of the name?

3.
In this case, the smart approach would be pre-processing the files to remove non-episode-title information from the file name, to ensure that the file name appears as substring of the Episode title as listed in the online database, then things will work out fairly instantly.


SHIFT-CLICK database to force manual series name entry:





As for pre-processing, any generic rename tool will do, and FileBot has a feature for that as well:
viewtopic.php?t=2072

In Plain File Mode, a format such as this will fix the above mentioned files:

hi rednoah,

awesome... this works very well! thank you very much!

it is very simple I can just exclude series name from filename while downloading .. (or simply rename them) ..
now it is fast and it works like it should..

thanks again !