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Hello there

I just started using Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 2, and it works like a charm so far. Though I'm now scanning my movie library and I'm facing the following issue: all my library is named with this convention "year - Title (Director)" (e.g. "1959 - Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks).mkv"). It seems not to be matching the default naming convention which would be "(1959) Rio Bravo.mkv". Though I'd really like to keep my files like they are, so I saw that I can customize the way Kobi reads files name via reggex (http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.x...iestacking). But I just don't understand how to use it. Can someone help me with that ?

Thanks a lot !

RegEx tutorial (wiki) in essence you create an advanced settings file with pattern matching and stick it in your Userdata (wiki) folder, this link may help http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1318777 or this http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=154076

Personally I would just do a batch rename

(e.g. "1959 - Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks).mkv") = Rio Bravo (1959) The scraper first keys in on the name, then looks at date if needed; if all fails on a single, you are presented with choice.

You can keep the file the same name, and just name the folder scraper friendly, for scraper look-ups. Kodi picks up the meta data for Howard Hawks and a lot more critical meta-data. Check out http://kodi.wiki/view/Supplemental_tools

I would take a lazier route - use filebot to create a symlink to each movie, naming the symlink as kodi expects. Then use the symlink directory as your kodi source.