[ashlar]

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.

It's easy.

For movies I place each movie in a folder named MovieTitle (Year).WhateverYouWant.extension

Example:

Blade Runner (1982).BluRay.1080P.H264.DTS.mkv

And in the scraper you pick the option "Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title". This way you can have subtitles inside, posters, whatever you want.

For TV Shows, I have one folder per series and inside all the episodes (without season folders), named EpisodeTitle.SxxExx.WhateverYouWant.extension.

The wiki explains this quite clearly, anyway: https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files