Series [11x01] Ep Name.avi WON'T PARSE!!!! (2 Viewers)

[Rick]

Ok, I've only got a handful of files, so if there's a manual way I could do this manually, but it's a right pain. I used TheRename to rename them all like this from my recordings because I find it much easier to read, but I can't get it to parse for love or money. Been trying simple expressions due to the simplicity.

Directory structure is

X:\Series Name\Series [11x01] Ep Name.avi

Where 11 is the season number, and 01 is the episode number.

I've been trying \<series>\<series> [<season>x<episode>] <title>.<ext>

and ALL SORTS of variations on it, without any success at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, or I'll just do it manually if someone can tell me how.

Many thanks in advance.

Update - It looks like it converts my Simple expression to RegEx and then applies it? Which throws up an error "Too many )'s" ????

 

[jburnette]

I'm taking a guess here, but I think the brackets are what's giving you problems. Try removing them on an episode and see what happens. I think you have to add a \ before each bracket in a regular expression to get the regex parser to treat them as a bracket. Again, I'm not 100% sure that I'm correct, but it's worth a shot.

 

[Rick]

Unfortunately not

Expression is now this

\series\<series>\[<season>x<episode>\]<title>.<ext>

Right, final update. jburnette, you're right, it's the square brackets causing the problem, HOWEVER, \ is not the way to have RegEx parse them, any other ideas?

 

[tjb0647]

If you still have the default parsing expressions then the quickest thing to do is:
Add two string replacement items: "[" -> "<empty>" and "]" -> "<empty>" and make sure you check both check boxes to run before match and activate it.

if you removed them, this the one you need to add:
<series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>.<ext>