FileBot

Have been using Filebot in an automated setup with amc for over a year now, and it's just amazing.

I use "--conflict override" as I frequently download improved versions of movies/shows manually, and sometimes I intentionally downgrade the quality as well, thus I don't want to use the automatic system. To make sure I don't get duplicates in my movies/tvshows folder I use standardized naming, e.g.:
What bothers me is that this naming style makes it very difficult to easily check what type of quality file I have stored, I don't want to have to open/find an .nfo file or run some mediainfo scanner. Thus I would like to move to using original file naming, scene style.

Of course this would create a problem with duplicates, as that means different versions of movies could start stacking up inside a movie folder, as Filebot wont see that a previous version exists.

Anyone else have this issue and have some clever fix? Or perhaps someone has a good idea to make this work in a smooth way. Detecting an existing .mkv could work with movies for example, but will fail with TV shows, etc.

I'd just add {vf} to the format so you get different destination paths for videos of different qualities.

e.g.

rednoah wrote: ↑07 Nov 2017, 09:19 I'd just add {vf} to the format so you get different destination paths for videos of different qualities.

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{plex.derive{" [$vf, $vc, $ac]"}}

Thanks for the quick reply, I didn't get a notification it seems, so pardon my slowness.

I solved this partially now using: I had hoped maybe conflict override checks for an existing .mkv, but I suppose that's not realistic. So next step is to add a post script to my Filebot script to delete the oldest .mkv if there are multiple in a movie's folder. I don't think something like that can be done directly in the filebot script.

There's a script for finding and deleting duplicates and keeping the best-quality file:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5#p23171

rednoah wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 10:51 There's a script for finding and deleting duplicates and keeping the best-quality file:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5#p23171

Aye, but I actually keep lower quality versions in many cases. For example when I know I will be watching it through Plex/tablet instead of on Kodi/theater. Thus I always want the latest version.

I create a script now that cleans the oldest .mkv from the most recent Movie folder after Filebot has run, works nicely. Plus then a script to trigger a Plex refresh so it recognizes the new filename.

Thanks for your help, sending you some coffee