Best way to name movie files (2 Viewers)

[Cazz]

What is the best way to be sure that Mediaportal (IMDB+) take right movie when the scan for new movie I collect?

Sometime when it read alot of movie it happend it get wrong movie and it is not so nice to look around to find what movie have the wrong information. Sometime it take another movie that have same name as that I looking for and sometime it even take a video game???

If have to change the name of every movie I have that is ok, I just have to be sure it take the right information.
Sometime it can't even find the movie so I have to manual add and I try not to have to do that

right now I have

Title_of_the_movie

But does it work if I use the ID that IMDB have like

Title_of_the_movie_tt0087469

Does that work, I can try but I like to be sure that is really going to work when I rescan my whole collection to make sure that I have no more movie with wrong information.

 

[breese]

I would be interested in something automatic to do it but
I look then up on IMDB and then rename them
Title [tt12345]
Scans work every time.

 

[RoChess]

Moving-Pictures has build in rename support. If you imported the right movie (adding IMDb tt-ID to filename or NFO file does that), you can use the renamer system (available via config) to rename all your movies as follows:

MovPic config -> "About" tab -> "Advanced Settings" button -> "Extras" -> "File Rename Pattern"

Change it to: ${movie.title} (${movie.year}) [${movie.imdb_id}]${moviepart}

Save it via "Update", and look at the other rename settings to make sure they match your preference.

Then close this and go to "Movie Manager" tab. Select a movie inside list, and use CTRL+A to select them all. Then gear icon -> "Rename" -> "Rename Files and Folders"

Confirm first rename is correct and then check the "Do this for the next XXXX movies." setting and let it run.

You can also use 3rd party tool MovPicNFO to generate XBMC compatible NFO files for all your movies that will add the IMDb tt-ID as well for flawless import and also offers the benefit then for an off-line import as it also supports details/fanart/etc. if you configure it as such (you have to configure the XBMC scraper-script then to be primary on import)

 

[Cazz]

Thanks for the fast replay.

breese:
Ok so I have to use [ and ] outside the IMDB id??
I still like to have _ instead of space (old habit from Linux system) so Title_[tt12345] do work?

RoChess:
Ahh yes I have read something about it.
It is that I'm not sure that all my movie have the right information, some does not have any information at all so I'm afraid it going to give it a wrong ID number.
So I still have to go through all my movie to see everything is ok.
But yes that is a way I can do it, it maybe even make it easy then look after every movies ID number.

 

[breese]

I cannot answer the UnderScore or Not UnderScore.... I also work in a Unix Env so I know the feeling
I have a Blank in between the name and [tt123456]
Works everytime...
Now with the Moving-Pictures info, I guess I will just have to check it out.

Might make my life easier seeing I use both MP1 and am a tester for MP2

 

[RoChess]

I used the "Tile (year) [IMDb tt-ID]" format as an example, you are free to use whatever you want, underscores, dots, spaces, anything

 

[Cazz]

Thanks.

I think the easy is for me (is the easy of that I have thinking about) that that I go through all my movie in "Movie Manager" and fix every error and then use Rename function.

 

[RoChess]

Yup, need to do the same myself, but can never find the time to do so. Each new import I have the IMDb tt-ID added to the filename, but imports done many years ago have a risk of a false positive.

Good luck on verifying/fixing yours.

 

[Cazz]

I forgot to ask, what title does it use??
I mean some movie har more then one title and here i sweden some even translate to swedish??

 

[RoChess]

It will use title that Moving-Pictures shows inside the list of movies within Moving-Pictures config -> "Movie Manager" tab. So if that is the translated title due to a scraper-script mishap, then that is the title that will be used.