Ignore files with matching pattern? (1 Viewer)

[mbuzina]

Hi all,

Thanks for the interesting plugin! I am starting to use it now and would like to automate my recording workflow as much as possible. I am using the great episodescanner tool to fill season & episode info in my EPG and I would like TV Series to recognize series in my recording series folder. Some are not really series though and should be ignored. I can recognize them since they do not have SxEy in it (I surround SxEy with - resulting in -SxEy- which TV series ignores and I can parse for -- if I want a non-series entry).

So can I enter a filter criteria of "if filname contains "--" ignore the file and automate the parsing?

 

[Inker]

So you would like it to import files that are like SxEy but ignore series that include SxEy?

You can either modify the parsing expressions that deal with SxEy to require a non "-" before and after, or you can create a regex string replacement that turns -S\dE\d- into something unparsable, like ignore.

Or since you already surround the SxEy where u don't want, change this to something like SeasonxEpisodey or some other format that the parsing expressions ignore.

Or am I misunderstanding?

 

[RoChess]

Remember to use: -S\d+E\d+- or it will only work on single digit seasons/episodes.

 

[mbuzina]

Maybe I did not explain well enough, so some samples:
I named my series as follows
<SeriesName> -SxEy- <Title> (Channel - Date).ts (just told TV server to do it this way)
Now I record a few things in advanced recording for which I do not have series information, resulting in:
<ProgramName> -- (Channel - Date) or sometimes
<ProgramName> -- <Title> (Channel - Date)

I would like to ignore the last two.

It may be better since I discovered the "Ignore" option when new Series are found (this helps a lot), so I am alerted only once and not every time the Program is recorded.

 

[RoChess]

I named my series as follows
<SeriesName> -SxEy- <Title> (Channel - Date).ts (just told TV server to do it this way)

Files are recognized based on the Parsing Expressions that are enabled.

The above filename scheme would relate to the first/primary parsing expression. If you simply disable all the others, then nothing else (such as those 2 other files) will match, and they will all be ignored.

They will show as yellow entries on step 1 of the import wizard, but they will never be auto-checked and used for step 2+ unless you manually check the boxes for correction in the following steps.