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Posted: **07 Oct 2016, 05:42**

I recently ran into an issue when trying to rename files that contained two episodes.

i used to be able to do it and it would work perfectly but i lost that script.

it used to work like this

it would rename
Star vs. The Forces of Evil Season 2 Episode 17-18
to
[2016-09-26] Star vs. the Forces of Evil - S02E17-E18 - Sleepover & Gift of the Card [720p] [AAC]

but now its only picking up the first episode (Episode 17)

the format im using to rename is

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{n.sortName('$2, $1')}/{episode.special ? 'Special' : 'Season '+s}/[{airdate}] {n} - S{s.pad(2)}E{es*.pad(2).join('-E')} - {episode.title} [{vf}] [{ac}]

what am i doing wrong?

Posted: **07 Oct 2016, 07:58**

If you have multi-part episodes then they need to be reasonably well named. Fuzzy logic used for catching arbitrary number patterns can't catch multi-part episode numbers.

This works (and always has):

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S02E17-18

This doesn't work (and never has):

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Season 2 Episode 17-18

I'll try to add support for this multi-episode pattern for the next release.

Posted: **07 Oct 2016, 11:11**

rednoah wrote:If you have multi-part episodes then they need to be reasonably well named. Fuzzy logic used for catching arbitrary number patterns can't catch multi-part episode numbers.

This works (and always has):
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S02E17-18
This doesn't work (and never has):
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Season 2 Episode 17-18
I'll try to add support for this multi-episode pattern for the next release.

i tried renaming it in that fashion but its still only picking up the first episode.

is there something wrong with the code im using?

Posted: **07 Oct 2016, 11:46**

Use {s00e00} to make sure that FileBot has matched the file to multiple episodes.

Posted: **07 Oct 2016, 22:36**

rednoah wrote:Use {s00e00} to make sure that FileBot has matched the file to multiple episodes.

I tried using a different episode to make sure it wasn't an issue with just this show, but i was still unable to get it to work.
i tried a couple different naming schemes. (the show i tried was one i had renamed in the past and it worked back than)

i tried
Star vs. the Forces of Evil S01E01-E02
with

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{n} - {s00e00} - {t}

and got
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - S01E01-E02 - Star Comes to Earth & Party With a Pony & Match Maker & School Spirit
(it gave me four episodes instead of just the two)

I than tried the format ive been using for awhile

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{n.sortName('$2, $1')} ({y})/{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s}/[{airdate}] {n} - S{s.pad(2)}E{es*.pad(2).join('-E')} - {episode.title} [{vf}] [{ac}]

on
Star vs. the Forces of Evil S01E01-E02
and got
[2015-01-18] Star vs. the Forces of Evil - S01E01-E01-E02-E02 - Star Comes to Earth [1080p] [AAC]

what ever code i was using before gave me the right output but i don't know what it was
i put that same episode in awhile back and it gave me this
[2015-01-18] Star vs. the Forces of Evil - S01E01-E02 - Star Comes to Earth & Party With a Pony [1080p] [AAC]

which works perfectly for me.

Posted: **08 Oct 2016, 02:46**

FileBot works:

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$ filebot -rename . --action test
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Auto-detected query: [Star vs the Forces of Evil]
Fetching episode data for [Star vs. the Forces of Evil]
[TEST] Rename [Star vs. the Forces of Evil S01E01-E02.mp4] to [Star vs. the Forces of Evil - 1x01 & 1x02 - Star Comes to Earth & Party With a Pony.mp4]

Your format works:

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$ filebot -rename . --action test --format "{n.sortName('$2, $1')} ({y})/{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s}/[{airdate}] {n} - S{s.pad(2)}E{es*.pad(2).join('-E')} - {episode.title} [{vf}] [{ac}]"
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Auto-detected query: [Star vs the Forces of Evil]
Fetching episode data for [Star vs. the Forces of Evil]
[TEST] Rename [Star vs. the Forces of Evil S01E01-E02.mp4] to [Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015)/Season 1/[2015-01-18] Star vs. the Forces of Evil - S01E01-E02 - Star Comes to Earth [] [].mp4]

Now that we have confirmed that it's a neither an inherent FileBot problem nor a problem with your format, you can move on to figuring out what's different in your specific case. Be smart and use trial and error to narrow down the problem.

EDIT:

So I've played around a little bit, and it turns out that you're HIDING THE FACT THAT YOU'RE USING DVD ORDER which explain why I'm wasting my time trying to figure out what's going on testing with Airdate Order.

According to DVD Order, there are in fact Episode 1.1 and Episode 1.2 that make up Episode 1.

DasBeast wrote:I tried using a different episode to make sure it wasn't an issue with just this show

You have clearly NOT tested with other shows which would tell you that it works for everything but "Star vs. the Forces of Evil". You have NOT tested with "Star vs. the Forces of Evil S01E01" which would have told you that "Episode 1" has two titles.

Either of those peculiarities should have lead you to double-check what TheTVDB data says:

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