FileBot

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.

gdlk wrote: ↑12 Mar 2025, 09:18 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.

gdlk wrote: ↑12 Mar 2025, 09:18 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:

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

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

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