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I'm about to take on the duanting task of organizing my TV shows and adding them to my library. I really don't want to go through the hassle of having them being scraped wrong and deleting info and seeing that episode 3 was scraped as episode 4 and etc... so I want to make sure I do it all the right the first time. What program do you guys use to rename your TV show files and what syntax seem to be the most popular/reliable for the naming convention? Also I do know that I can find the naming schemes that XBMC accepts on the forums, I'm just asking you guys, what you personally prefer and any reason why you prefer it. So I'm looking for:

1. What naming scheme you use and why.
2. What renaming app you use to rename them and why.


Thanks All

- Prison Break (folder)
-- season 01 (folder)
--- S01E01.avi (file)

using total commander for renaming.

tvrename is awesome. Its great any

http://www.tvrename.com/

Check it out.

For Mac people I stumbled on the Java app FileBot which does an okay job looking up and renaming episodes. It can also download subtitles and do movie name lookups/renames (ie adding year to the name).

In the case of movie renaming though, I found it lacking, and use one of mac.jedi's Automator actions (Rename Movie Items).

blittan Wrote:- Prison Break (folder)
-- season 01 (folder)
--- S01E01.avi (file)

using total commander for renaming.

Hi blittan,

Have a look at filebot for episode renaming. You'll never go back to doing it "manually" with total commander.

You can also enter your folder/naming structure ... like this:
E:/Complete/{n}/Season {s}/S{s.pad(2)}E{e.pad(2)}

Next time you rename a show, you'll be done in seconds.

name mangler

I use mythicalLibrarian http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythicalLibrarian

it does movies and generates comskips automatically as a mythtv user job.

I just use Automator when necessary. Maybe it's not the easiest, but it's worked fine for my needs so far.

I'm currently using A Better Finder Rename which is a general purpose renaming app (the best on OSX but not free). But tvrename and filebot may be better, I'm gonna give them a try.

I've used MediaRenamer for a long time http://media-renamer.software.informer.com/
It is VERY easy to use (which is why I like it).
I actually use the older version (1.something), as I am used to it, but either should be fine.

mrt2 Wrote:I'm about to take on the duanting task of organizing my TV shows and adding them to my library. I really don't want to go through the hassle of having them being scraped wrong and deleting info and seeing that episode 3 was scraped as episode 4 and etc... so I want to make sure I do it all the right the first time. What program do you guys use to rename your TV show files and what syntax seem to be the most popular/reliable for the naming convention? Also I do know that I can find the naming schemes that XBMC accepts on the forums, I'm just asking you guys, what you personally prefer and any reason why you prefer it. So I'm looking for:

1. What naming scheme you use and why.
2. What renaming app you use to rename them and why.


Thanks All

I'm using Rename Now. Seems pretty good. Batch or respectively rename files. You can try. the website is http://www.markmarksoft.com. Hopefully it can help you

After the initial hassle of renaming everything by hand and putting it in a structure like this:
TV > Show > Season XX > Series SXXEXX.mkv
I use sabnzbd+ to get my files, its fully automated with unrar/par/rename/move to right folder.

Then all i have to do is UpdateLibrary(video) and everything is added.

I read this and many other threads with interest. I've now found the bees-knees in renamers for those who need a simple command-line solution (such as as a post-torrent download script):
* tvnamer - https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer

Its python so cross-platform. It will process all files in given directory and is fully configurable such as the regular expression to parse the file name.

Its CL so isn't for the GUI Junkies.

I dont rename my serie files.

I use the subtitle downloader and need the release group to get the correct subtitle name. Besides, when using library mode I never see the filenames

TvNamer seems good to me, for the use in a commandline enviroment.
I built an headless server and it's very useful to run Tvnamer in batch with crontab, so that newly downloaded episodes are not only renamed, but especially MOVED from my incoming directory to the proper location for the Show & Season.
The only doubt I have is how to handle the subtitle renaming too, but I've just installed it and I'll try to figure it out..

Bye