remove year from series name if it exists

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jp55
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remove year from series name if it exists

Post by jp55 »

Hello, I hope this question has not been asked and answered already.

More and more I find that series have the year as part of the title, I am using this to name the files:

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{n.colon(' - ')}.{s00e00}.{t}.{' CD'+pi}{vf}.{vc}{-bitdepth}bit.[tmdbid-{tmdbid}]{textLanguages}{lang}
I cannot seem to find a way to only have the year appear once.
As an example, The 2024 series "Tracker" is already listed as "Tracker (2024)",
so whenI rename, I et something like: Tracker (2024) (2024).S02E17.1080p.AV1-10bit.[tmdbid-211288][eng]
I am looking for a solution the remove they year it it already part of the name.
Thanks in advance for your help
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Re: remove year from series name if it exists

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jp55 wrote: 21 Apr 2025, 19:31 More and more I find that series have the year as part of the title
:arrow: You are using TheTVDB which uses Name (Year) as series name to make each series name unique. You will want to use TheMovieDB instead which allows for duplicate series names and does never has the year in the series name. You notably use {tmdbid} in your format so you really want to use TheMovieDB information for naming and numbering as to avoid confusion.


:idea: If you prefer to use TheTVDB then you can use the {ny} binding if you need Name (Year) since {ny} will take care of deduplicated the (year) bit if it happens to be part of the {n} series name already:

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{ ny }
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