2019-06-13, 21:52
Sorry - was not asking for a need to use regex. I'm just putting my feet on the ground on how Kodi works and was deciphering existing regex associated with scraping filenames (before doing lookups for additional info).
"Good, clean folder/file naming" is my goal. I've used Myth for sometime with Makemkv to rip 400+ discs and several TV shows. Living room viewing was done from a WDLive, which was retired in favor of Kodi.
Renaming those to match that Kodi expects is best suited for scripting; using regex is the key on my end. I'm taking baby steps: LiSt a directory's contents, and then with GVIM (and its RE engine, strikingly different from Perl, Java, MS, etc.), surround existing names with 'mv file1 something_kodi_expects'.
Not a ton to do manually once I get the gist of things. Like I wrote, a Kodi NOOB.
In any case, I was lazy and should have simply looked at Kodi's source to sort the RE engine question out..
Hope that clarifies my ask..
"Good, clean folder/file naming" is my goal. I've used Myth for sometime with Makemkv to rip 400+ discs and several TV shows. Living room viewing was done from a WDLive, which was retired in favor of Kodi.
Renaming those to match that Kodi expects is best suited for scripting; using regex is the key on my end. I'm taking baby steps: LiSt a directory's contents, and then with GVIM (and its RE engine, strikingly different from Perl, Java, MS, etc.), surround existing names with 'mv file1 something_kodi_expects'.
Not a ton to do manually once I get the gist of things. Like I wrote, a Kodi NOOB.
In any case, I was lazy and should have simply looked at Kodi's source to sort the RE engine question out..
Hope that clarifies my ask..
(2019-06-13, 20:42)Klojum Wrote: Plenty of people are using Kodi without any regex-added instructions when it comes to scraping your media collection into Kodi's libraries.
Good, clean folder/file naming is by far the best first step for that. So, what would you need regex for?
