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Filebot weird season rename with AniDB
Posted: 14 Jul 2020, 02:15
by kracksickles
I am not sure what has changed, but some shows are renaming with season numbers that relates to TVDB renaming versus aniDB renaming:
It is causing trouble for me to match results on Plex unless I manually rename every episode and folder to season 1.
Can anyone please provide suggestions?
Thank you.
Re: Filebot weird season rename with AniDB
Posted: 14 Jul 2020, 06:10
by rednoah
If you're using Plex, then you can't use AniDB, unless you're using the 3rd party HAMA plug-in in which case you want Absolute numbering.
Instead,
convert your episodes to TheTVDB naming and then let Plex do it's thing:
viewtopic.php?t=2769

If must use AniDB, but don't want SxE numbers, then you'll need to adjust your custom format and avoid SxE bindings such as
{s} or
{s00e00}. The
{plex} binding is generally recommended, and that will result in HAMA compatible Absolute numbering for AniDB episode information.
Re: Filebot weird season rename with AniDB
Posted: 14 Jul 2020, 17:51
by kracksickles
Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using the HAMA plug in for plex and absolute series scanner.
Are you suggesting I should change my format expression and eliminate it from renaming the episode file with SxE expressions?
If so, I am not sure what I should change it to since I have used the ones in the examples:

Re: Filebot weird season rename with AniDB
Posted: 14 Jul 2020, 19:35
by rednoah
I don’t personally use HAMA, but whatever naming may be recommended by the HAMA developers, FileBot will be able to produce it.
The
{plex} binding will probably do just fine:
Re: Filebot weird season rename with AniDB
Posted: 15 Jul 2020, 02:20
by kracksickles
It looks like Plex is happy with using {plex} as the format expression.
Thank you!