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I've run into this a lot of times when using FileBot over the years, but I'd really appreciate if parent folder names could be considered during the matching process. Sometimes I'll have a bunch of episodes for say Rifftrax that have file names like "SafelyWalkToSchool_highTV" which FileBot is very good at matching in a folder named "Rifftrax" or "Rifftrax (2006)" and FileBot will refuse to match them thinking each is its own series or something.

I'd love to have the option for it to get the show name from the name of the parent folder so that I don't have to go and append "Rifftrax - " to the front of all of the files before they're matched or (what I do more often) which is have to look up the info in the Episodes tab first and then send it to the Rename tab.

Thanks!

mrmiyamoto wrote: ↑09 Jun 2025, 21:47 I've run into this a lot of times when using FileBot over the years, but I'd really appreciate if parent folder names could be considered during the matching process.

FileBot does consider the parent folder:
There might be an issue specific to Rifftrax though:

EDIT:

"rifftrax" does not exist so that would explain why it doesn't work even though the parent folder is being considered.



EDIT 2:

RiffTrax does exist on TheTVDB though.

But RiffTrax was explicitly reported as "this is not a series name" some 9 years ago, so FileBot will ignore parent folders specifically named RiffTrax. It'll work for anything you can think of except for that specific term. See Query Excludes & Series Mappings for details.


EDIT 3:

I have removed RiffTrax from the exclude list:
https://github.com/filebot/data/commit/ ... 80b86ebb18

Thanks so much for the help!