Too many episodes named badly (1 Viewer)

[chadamir]

Well I shouldn't say they're named badly since I understand them, but I cant find a good tv show renamer to use and it wont work with tv-series. It's doctor who and its hundreds of episodes so id rather not do it by hand. Here's how they are named doctor.who.s03e06p04.divx.tardismatrix.avi but on tvdb this episode is episode 29. What software might prove useful or am I going to have to do it by hand. The fact that it lists episodes by parts is the problem.

 

[dir]

Ah, this problem. You're talking about Doctor Who, the original series, not the 2005+ one. I don't have a really easy answer for you other than to download renamer 1.4 (it's called something like that), and also TVRenamer.

I used a combination of these sorts of things. You don't need to rename the entire filename but you need to get them in incremental order. By this I mean you need to rename all the files in a given year numerically, so that the first episode (parts 1 through 5) are named

doctor who.s02e01.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e02.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e03.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e04.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e05.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk

and the 2nd episode (parts 1 through 5) are
doctor who.s02e06.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e07.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e08.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e09.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk
doctor who.s02e10.dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk

etc. The "dkhsdkjfhdskjfhsdjkfhk" bit is irrelevent - it can be anything and will be deleted anyway. You only need the "Doctor Who.S02Exx" bit.

Use the renamer program for this (press f2 to get to advanced menu and go from there.)

Once all the episodes are renamed sequentially, pop them all into a different directory and use TVRenamer. Configure it to scan that directory and to put the resulting files somewhere else.

If you get this all right, TVRenamer scans each one of these files, looks up the correct info on thetvdb, renames the file, and moves it.
I have my collection set up as

d:\tv\Doctor Who\Season 02:
S02E01 - Planet of Giants.avi
S02E05 - The Daleks.avi
S02E10 - The Powerful Enemy.mpg
S02E11 - Desperate Measures.mpg
S02E12 - The Slave Traders.avi
S02E13 - All Roads Lead to Rome.avi
S02E14 - Conspiracy.avi
S02E15 - Inferno.avi
S02E16 - The Web Planet.avi
S02E17 - The Zarbi.avi
S02E18 - Escape to Danger.avi
S02E19 - Crater of Needles.avi
S02E20 - Invasion.avi
S02E21 - The Centre.avi
S02E22 - The Lion.avi
S02E23 - The Knight of Jaffa.avi
S02E24 - The Wheel of Fortune.avi
S02E25 - The Warlords.avi
S02E26 - The Space Museum.avi
S02E27 - The Dimensions of Time.avi
S02E28 - The Search.avi
S02E29 - The Final Phase.avi
S02E30 - The Executioners.avi
S02E31 - The Death of Time.avi
S02E32 - Flight through Eternity.avi
S02E33 - Journey into Terror.avi
S02E34 - The Death of Doctor Who.avi
S02E35 - The Planet of Decision.avi
S02E36 - The Watcher.avi
S02E37 - The Meddling Monk.avi
S02E38 - A Battle of Wits.avi
S02E39 - Checkmate.avi

The combination of Rename1.4 and TVRenamer did most of the work.

 

[Undel]

Well, I imported all episodes of Doctor Who manually. Two days, yes... but when all episodes are burned on dvds renaming is not an answer