2018-06-11, 07:44
Apologies if there is a solution to this, I've done some searching but not found one so I'm hoping someone with experience has some advice for me.
After adding all my sources, scanning them and selecting correct options for the folders that aren't cooperating I turned to the wiki hoping I could learn how to solve my problem. Turns out, many of the shows do not have correct naming and Kodi will not scan them properly.
If it was only a few shows I'd have no problem renaming each individual episode to the correct filename but there are so many of them that it would take me an unreasonable amount of time to rename them all.
However, if that's my only option then I guess I'll have to do it.
Maybe there is an application that can rename many files at once following a specific pattern?
I've tried to grasp the custom filenames chapter of the wiki but I can't understand much of what is written. I have some difficulties with learning things and what makes it worse is my "tech" English is very limited so a lot of what is written looks like "mumbling" to me (I'm not sure how else to explain it).
I've located the folder in which the 'advancedsettings.xml' should be located, I just need to know what's supposed to be in the file.
I think I've figured out the tvshowmatching action="append" followed by regexp values.
These values are the things that I can't work out. I've spent hours trying to figure out what to put in there but my brain won't let me do it because I can't comprehend what it is I'm writing and it's getting really frustrating.
So far I have identified these combinations that I'd like to be able to successfully scan (or scrape, not sure which is right but basically not only show up in the file system but in the library):
show A\season 1\01.01 - name.avi
show B\season 1\01-name.avi (this one is the worst as it's the most common one in my collection)
show C\episode 1 - name.avi
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide
/Fred
After adding all my sources, scanning them and selecting correct options for the folders that aren't cooperating I turned to the wiki hoping I could learn how to solve my problem. Turns out, many of the shows do not have correct naming and Kodi will not scan them properly.
If it was only a few shows I'd have no problem renaming each individual episode to the correct filename but there are so many of them that it would take me an unreasonable amount of time to rename them all.
However, if that's my only option then I guess I'll have to do it.
Maybe there is an application that can rename many files at once following a specific pattern?
I've tried to grasp the custom filenames chapter of the wiki but I can't understand much of what is written. I have some difficulties with learning things and what makes it worse is my "tech" English is very limited so a lot of what is written looks like "mumbling" to me (I'm not sure how else to explain it).
I've located the folder in which the 'advancedsettings.xml' should be located, I just need to know what's supposed to be in the file.
I think I've figured out the tvshowmatching action="append" followed by regexp values.
These values are the things that I can't work out. I've spent hours trying to figure out what to put in there but my brain won't let me do it because I can't comprehend what it is I'm writing and it's getting really frustrating.
So far I have identified these combinations that I'd like to be able to successfully scan (or scrape, not sure which is right but basically not only show up in the file system but in the library):
show A\season 1\01.01 - name.avi
show B\season 1\01-name.avi (this one is the worst as it's the most common one in my collection)
show C\episode 1 - name.avi
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide
/Fred