[d00ziie]

Okay, then I wont try that either (the easier the better). I will just set up everything in xbmc after importing the shows and movies.

[Piers]

TV

Drive
- Show Title
-- Season
--- Episodes

Example:
Y:\American Horror Story\Season 02\S02E01.mkv
E:\The Shield\Season 01\S01E01.avi

Film

Drive
- Film Title
-- Film file

Example:
X:\Avatar\Avatar.mkv
Z:\Doc Hollywood\Doc Hollywood.avi

I don't separate media by container or resolution, that's what XBMC is for.

[un1versal]

@Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.avi

[Philmatic]

I think you are all over-complicating things, I have all my movies in one folder. XBMC does a fantastic job of sorting through them all and categorizing them automatically.

[djbubba2002]

I think you are all over-complicating things, I have all my movies in one folder. XBMC does a fantastic job of sorting through them all and categorizing them automatically.

my Movies are like that to..

/Movies
/Movies/100 Bloody Acres (2012) /100 Bloody Acres (2012).avi

i have over 1,300 movies like that

[nickr]

@Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.avi

Not according to the wiki.

[Piers]

@Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.avi

I've been using that format for years, over 10,000 episodes and not an issue

[d00ziie]

I think you are all over-complicating things, I have all my movies in one folder. XBMC does a fantastic job of sorting through them all and categorizing them automatically.

I have realized that now will do it more simpler when I set it up

[GregiBoy]

I have used the following to great success over the years, not only for XBMC, but for other scrapers such as Thumbgen & YAMJ (Not all mv my devices support XBMC)

Movies->Genre->Moviename (I sometimes create subdirectories below this with sets ie: Star Trek

Television->Showname->Showname SXX->Showname SXXEXX.xxx and put all Specials in S00 and numbered as TheTVdB

[Piers]

This is all of my shows, spread over 4 drives.

Absolutely Fabulous
Ancient Aliens
Andrew Marrs History Of The World
Anger Management
Arrow
Auschwitz The Nazis The Final Solution
Battlestar Galactica
Bedlam
Blackadder
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Bullet In The Face
Burn Notice
Continuum
Criminal Minds
Dallas
Dark Angel
Days That Shook The World
Derren Brown The Specials
Desperate Housewives
Doctor Who 2005
Eureka
Firefly
Go On
Greys Anatomy
House
How I Met Your Mother
In The Flesh
Jericho
Jonathan Creek
Law & Order Special Victims Unit
Law & Order UK
Leverage
Lie To Me
Person of Interest
Primeval New World
Ripper Street
Scam City
Spooks
Spy
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG1
Stargate Universe
Supernatural
The Big Bang Theory
The Cosby Show
The Genius Of Invention
The Inbetweeners US
The Vampire Diaries
Torchwood
Transporter
Boss
Breakout Kings
Chuck
Dexter
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Fonejacker
Frasier
Fringe
Futurama
Game of Thrones
Grimm
Heroes
Homeland
Hustle
Mad Men
Misfits
Monarch Of The Glen
Mr Selfridge
My Family
Niptuck
Prison Break
Red Dwarf
Scrubs
Sea of Souls
Sex and the City
Sherlock
Six Feet Under
Sliders
Spin City
The Following
The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
The Inbetweeners
The Killing
The Last Train
The OCD Project
The Secret Of Crickley Hall
The Simpsons
The X-Files
Touch
Warehouse 13
7 Days
24 Hours In A&E
666 Park Avenue
A Young Doctors Notebook
Africa
Alphas
American Dad
American Horror Story
Angel
Arrested Development
Auction Hunters
Banshee
Bates Motel
Ben Earl Trick Artist
Black Mirror
Bones
Breaking Bad
Castle
Covert Affairs
CSI NY
Da Vincis Demons
Devious Maids
Dirty Sexy Money
Doc Martin
Elementary
Falling Skies
Family Guy
Friends
Gordon's Great Escape
Hannibal
House Of Cards
House of Lies
How It's Made
Human Planet
Impractical Jokers
Justified
Kitchen Nightmares US
Law & Order Criminal Intent
Live At The Apollo
Luther
Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
Modern Family
Never Ever Do This At Home
Odd Folks Home
Orange Is The New Black
Orphan Black
Oz
Private Practice
Psych
Quantum Leap
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Ray Donovan
Revolution
Rise of The Continents
Sleepy Hollow
Star Trek Enterprise
Strike Back
Suits
The Bible
The Bridge
The Crazy Ones
The Fall
The Good Wife
The Listener
The Mentalist
The Michael J Fox Show
The Most Evil Men And Women In History
The Tomorrow People
The Wire
The Wrong Mans
Through The Wormhole
Under The Dome
Vice
Viva La Bam
Yes Prime Minister 2013
CSI Miami
The Pretender
The Shield
The Walking Dead
Vinnie Jones Russias Toughest

If I use The Walking Dead as an example:

X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E01.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E02.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E03.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E04.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E05.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 01\S01E06.1080p.mkv

X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E01.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E02.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E03.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E04.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E05.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E06.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E07.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E08.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E09.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E10.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E11.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E12.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 02\S02E13.1080p.mkv

X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E01.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E02.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E03.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E04.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E05.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E06.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E07.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E08.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E09.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E10.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E11.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E12.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E13.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E14.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E15.1080p.mkv
X:\The Walking Dead\Season 03\S03E16.1080p.mkv

I only use the .1080p if the file is 1080p, if the container is mkv then I know it's 720p and if it's avi then I know the content will be standard definition. From what I've seen everyone has their own way of categorizing media, but I've stuck with this method for many years and find it's worked out the best. That's also covering WMC, MediaPortal, WMC/Mediabrowser and finally XBMC.

I also have poster.jpg and an extrafanart directory as well, although I think the extrafanart is left over from a previous script or Artwork Downloader, can anyone confirm this?

[Piers]

@Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.avi

Now that you've mentioned that - and I've already replied - I do have a question. I'm aware of applications that will take the current names and rename the files, so for example S01E01 would become The Shield 1x01 Episode Name - but are there any that you know of that play nicely with XBMC and keeping the watched status? I just did a test using Filebot and Absolutely Fabulous and it renamed all the eps using TVDB info, but lost the watched status.

If anyone knows I would greatly appreciate it.

[n1md4]

A good reference point:-

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Vid...s/TV_shows
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Vid...les/Movies

... if you're new to XBMC, keep it simple!

[nickr]

If you also chaanged the filename in the database then the watched ststus would stay, but that would involve a bit of work and the perceived wisdom in most of these situations is to know the database layout thoroughly before writing direct to it.

Anyway there is nothing wrong with your naming. If you want to switch to another method, I would simply do it for new series, and leave well enough alone with the old.

---

A good reference point:-

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Vid...s/TV_shows
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Vid...les/Movies

... if you're new to XBMC, keep it simple!

And what he said!

My own naming is

TV/The Walking Dead/Season 1/The Walking Dead S01E01 Days Gone Bye.mkv

Then if some slip of the mouse moves the file somewhere, I know where to put it back!

[Piers]

TV/The Walking Dead/Season 1/The Walking Dead S01E01 Days Gone Bye.mkv

Then if some slip of the mouse moves the file somewhere, I know where to put it back!

That's exactly what I'm thinking, I accidentally moved all episodes named S02E01.avi to one directory - took quite a while to put them back in place. I'm thinking that it should be possible to rename all using the app I previously mentioned and then update the watched status using the trakt addon. I don't believe that goes by file name but by show/episode etc.

[n1md4]

... I'm thinking that it should be possible to rename all ...

A smidge off-topic, but I've a batch renaming tip (Linux users only - sorry): Let's say you have S02E01.mkv to S02E20.mkv, you can use the rename command as shown below:-

Code:

$ rename 's/S02/My.Favourite.Show.S02/g'

It's just regex, but I've found it really handy!