Tools and other software FileBot - The ultimate TV Renamer and Subtitle Downloader (2 Viewers)

[rednoah]

FileBot 3.61 is out! Get it here!

This update brings lots of little tweaks for movie and episode detection and fixes various issues that have come up since the last release.

Changes:
* Many little tweaks for movie/series/episode matching and detection
* Improved filename validation as trailing spaces or dots cause issues on Windows
* Some tweaks for -non-strict behaviour
* Removed Sublight and Subscene because currently things are broken and can't be fixed without working APIs
* GUI does not allow override behaviour anymore as to avoid users inadvertently overriding files
chocolatey update

 

[rednoah]

FileBot 3.62 is out! Get it here!

This update brings lots of improvements for movie and episode detection as well as better subtitle auto-selection.

Changes:
* Improved movie / episode detection
* Improved subtitle auto-selection
* New bindings for multi-stream info, e.g. {videos} {audios} {texts}
* AMC: Fine-tune series/movie auto-detection
* AMC: Support <trailer> in movie.nfo creation

 

[FreakyJ]

I said it often, but your FileBot is the best renamer, I really really like it!

 

[rednoah]

FileBot 3.8 is out! Get it here!

This new major release brings new support for uploading subtitles and renaming music videos as well as updates to GUI and episode/movie matching that'll make things work much more smooth.

Changes:
* Support for OpenSubtitles Subtitle Upload (experimental)
* Support for music videos in Audio mode (may require chromaprint-tools 1.0 or higher)
* Support for alias names in matching and naming
* Improved Episode matching and Series detection
* Improved Movie detection
* Improved User guidance
* Improved caching and cache updates
* Format Editor with full Groovy syntax highlighting (thanks to RSyntaxTextArea)
* Calling with -clear-cache or -clear-prefs will now clear & exit
* Support --filter expressions in Movie mode
* Exclude list check/update support (i.e. ignore files that have already been processed in previous runs)
* Fix TheMovieDB artwork API issues
* New little utility to help with escaping arguments

 

[DJ Zany]

I've been using this for a while and it is a great way to rename all my files. Working very well with Flexget -> Transmission -> Filebot -> MediaPortal
One problem I have found is that there is show called "Episodes".

Strange name I know, but Filebot can't match it, whatever I try, so I have to process it manually. I guess it's stripping the title as noise. Anybody else had a similar problem, or know a way around this?

 

[rednoah]

Yep, the tricky ones you have to do semi-manually like so:

 

[DJ Zany]

Thanks Rednoah,

Just realised I may not have asked the question properly. Your video is what I am doing (the video is how I learnt, thanks!)

My workflow uses AMC - and it misses it altogether. I have put a pre-processing script in, which adds the IMDB number at the front for the relevant files (only this show), and I have better luck, it finds the series, but for some reason gets the season wrong!

 

[rednoah]

IMDB numbers in episode files are ignored, having tt1234567 in the filename only works for movies. But having an .nfo file with TheTVDB link in the same folder might help. Or just having extra scripts for these "episode.1x01" files where you force the query via --q "episodes".

 

[DJ Zany]

Thanks for your help Rednoah

I finally got around to trying a few different options and got some interesting results.

My test file is:
episodes.s03e07.hdtv.x264-2hd.mp4

Usually it doesn't find the show as the word "Episodes" is in the query-blacklist.

1) First I tried the .nfo file with the link to the TheTVDB link as suggested. This found the show well, but it kept naming the season as season 2, not series 3.
2) Then I used my own query-blacklist (unpacked jar, edited the file to point to my own webserver and re-JARred, maybe not the best way, but had the right outcome) This also worked to find the title "Episodes", but this also miscategorised to season 2, not season 3.

So the behaviour of both options is the same. "Episodes" is found, but Season 2 is selected over Season 3. In further testing, Season 1 is found correctly, season 2 is also. Season 3 and above all are named as season 2 by Filebot. (Note that there are no seasons above season 3.) I also checked and confirmed season 3 is in TheTVDB. http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=123581&seasonid=515519&lid=7

Not sure what else to try, but I think I have excluded some things by both test giving the same results.

 

[rednoah]

Works fine with the latest revision. Just asks me to enter the series name manually.