FileBot

Hey,

I just resetup my virtual machine (32-bit) and forgot to save my expressions from the last setup, so I wanted to resetup my expressions.
Now for that I wanted to use one of my already renamed Anime as Episode Binding so I picked a media file, but it still says Firefly in the name etc. only filename and directory changed to the selected media file.

It also doesn't find the group anymore but with my previous installation it had no problems with groups etc.
Example this is the input:
Beelzebub - S01E01 - I Picked up The Devil King [TMD][1280x720][x264][AAC]

And now the group [TMD] isn't found anymore.. I don't even know how to explain since I don't even get why this is happening...

1)
[groupname] is not a pattern that is recognized.

2)
You can always use existing files as sample file information. But you can only use them as sample episode information if they're tagged with full metadata via xattr. Probably by moving files between file systems that don't support xattr metadata.

3)
FileBot probably used the original filename from xattr metadata to detect the group name. Not the current filename in which it can't detect it. Since you lost xattr metadata this will now fail.

rednoah wrote: 2)
You can always use existing files as sample file information. But you can only use them as sample episode information if they're tagged with full metadata via xattr. Probably by moving files between file systems that don't support xattr metadata.

Well I migrated my NAS from Windows to Linux where I also migrated the harddrives from NTFS to ext4, so it seems ext4 doesn't support xattr metadata.. shiet..

Edit: Wait wut, ext4 does indeed support it.. so the metadata got lost in the filetransfer?!?

So are there any tools where I can write new metadata to the files? For example, can MediaElch do such things?

While this doesn't work: (*.GROUP.YYYY pattern is blacklisted)

EDIT: Fixed with r2897

Keeping your group name at the end makes things much easier for filebot since the group is usually at the end of the filename: (you might able able to automate shuffling your group tag to the end)


You can't restore "original filename" xattr metadata though, since that information is simply not available after renaming if it's not otherwise stored somewhere.

@see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=324