How to rename videos containing 3 episodes?

[Biff]

I have a series of which each file / video contains 2 or 3 episodes. How could I rename them best? Should I add the names of the three episodes to the file containing them? And, if yes, how could I do it?

These episodes are named with absolute numbering.

[rednoah]

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[Biff]

Oops, what's going on here?

[rednoah]

You didn't include filenames.

[Biff]

Whoops, very sorry about that, here they are:

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Diese Drombuschs 38-39.avi
Diese Drombuschs 36-37.avi
Diese Drombuschs 34-35.avi
Diese Drombuschs 32-33.avi
Diese Drombuschs 30-31.avi
Diese Drombuschs 28-29.avi
Diese Drombuschs 26-27.avi
Diese Drombuschs 24-25.avi
Diese Drombuschs 22-23.avi
Diese Drombuschs e19e20e21.avi
Diese Drombuschs s0e16-e18.avi
Diese Drombuschs s0e13-e15.avi
Diese Drombuschs s0e10-e12.avi
Diese Drombuschs s0e07-e09.avi

[rednoah]

If you set Episode Order to Absolute Order then it'll mostly work, because then the data will match your files.

As a general rule, multi-episode detection will only work on well-numbered files, like S01E01E02 and similar patterns. Misleading bits like S0 (indicating a special episode) aren't exactly helping neither.

[Biff]

Thank you very much!

I cannot get it to work at all, I get this:


But it should look like this:
Diese Drombuschs (s01e04-e06) - Spiel mit dem Feuer & Das Konzert & Entscheidungen (1984-01-01, 1983).avi
Diese Drombuschs (s01e01-e03) - Alle Jahre wieder & Der Appell & Die Machtprobe (1983-12-25, 1983).avi

[rednoah]

Looks good to me. Since you use Absolute numbers you'll get Absolute numbers in your output.

You can't convert absolute multi-episodes to SxE multi-episodes, if that's what you're trying to do.

[Biff]

Hmmm, but there are three episodes in one file, it cannot be right, it should look like:

Diese Drombuschs (s01e04-e06) - Spiel mit dem Feuer & Das Konzert & Entscheidungen (1984-01-01, 1983).avi
Diese Drombuschs (s01e01-e03) - Alle Jahre wieder & Der Appell & Die Machtprobe (1983-12-25, 1983).avi

[rednoah]

You will never get s01e01-e03 for the aforementioned reasons.

The one file where absolute multi-episode matching fails is the one with e19e20e21 which is not a recognized absolute multi-episode pattern. (EDIT: fixed)

You'll have to do this set of files manually, or use custom scripts to preprocess and fix the names.

[Biff]

Yes, well, I had hoped it works as the first two files were renamed correctly.

OK, so hard work now doing it manually.

Many thanks