snowjim Wrote:Hmm this sounds like a method I dont know about? What will TheRenamer do?
Right now the Ember do not find all my TVShows and on the once it founds it is missing some episodes.
I supose that this is due to that almost all TVShows I got is in rar archives and in separated folders like this :
TheRenamer can rename TV shows and Episodes based on information it fetches from TheTVDB and a few other sources. It can also automatically move your files after renaming into a subfolder structure as it si working in my setup. That's all. Not exciting but working very well.
This is usually my procedure (some minor steps maybe skippd
):
Extract all .avi or .mkv of one TV show (all seasons alltogether) into one temporary folder. Nothing else, no rar source files (why do you keep them?), just the plain videos (sometimes with subtittle files, too).
If you have already all your files in a complex folder structure like yours I'd take Windows Explorer to search for all video files (again usually .avi, .mpg, .mkv ...). It will present a list. You can mark all found items and move them to one (temporary) folder.
Start TheRenamer (get it here:
http://www.therenamer.com). Take a few moments to explore the options. In the right lower corner you can define what episode guide is used. I suggest TheTVDB. In the upper right corner (Settings) you can enable Auto Move and define the path to your final TV show destination. Same tab, right-hand side you can enable the season subfolder, if you wish one. An example file structure can be seen in green letters. Close the settings tab after adapting to your personal needs.
TheRenamer can guess what show you are trying to rename/move by extracting info from the file or folder names and google for it. Sometimes this is not enough, e.g. many of my sources have only file names like S01E02.avi w/o any further description. In such case or in case you want to be bullet-proof I suggest you open
http://www.thetvdb.com and enter your target TV show in the search field. It will present you with a list of findings with titles in the left column and a number (ID) in the right column. For instance, the number is 75760 for "How I met your Mother".
Click on "TV manual scraping" in the lower left part of TheRenamer's main screen. There you can enter the TVDB ID. Do this and just leave the window open. Now open your source video folder in Windows Explorer, mark all video files and drag'n'drop it to TheRenamer window.
Now the magic starts, TheRenamer looks up TV show and Episode information at TVDB and after that it provides you a list of matches (mainly old names/new names), which you can check again or abort. If everything is fine, you click on Proceed and it will create folders, rename files and move them to your target directory.
After that I update Ember's library (Target path is in there) and do scraping with Ember ...
I know, it sounds complex and I used many words to describe a quick task but the combination of both tools is working excellent here. I re-worked my whole TV show library in less than 1 hour (well only 21 shows up to now).
Give it a try ...
