[cliffe]

Thanks for the patience. I have been pretty busy, what with submitting my PhD thesis (yay!)

Anyway, more good news: here is v1.20 of SortTV!

This new version has these new features:

• --whitelist:pattern
  
  Only copy if the file matches one of these patterns
  Uses shell-like simple pattern matches (eg *.avi)
  This argument can be repeated to add more rules
• --blacklist:pattern
  
  Don't copy if the file matches one of these patterns
  Uses shell-like simple pattern matches (eg *.avi)
  This argument can be repeated to add more rules
• --extract-compressed-before-sorting:[TRUE|FALSE]
  
  Extracts the contents of archives (.zip, .rar) into the directory-to-sort while sorting
  If "rar" and "unzip" programs are available they are used. If you don't have them you will need to install them on your system or this feature won't work.
  If not specified, TRUE
• Provides a warning if downloading images on Windows (since this feature currently doesn't work).
  
• Should handle directory names correctly (Windows style slashes and special characters such as "-").
  
• Fix for date named formatting.
  

This addresses things brought up recently, and adds some features you guys wanted.

As always, your testing, bug reports, and feedback are appreciated.

Thanks to everyone who have donated, your encouragement is really appreciated! If you find this software helpful, and haven’t already shown your support, please consider a $5 donation, which will give us both warm fuzzy feelings. Click for more information:
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You can get the new version from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sorttv/

I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer, when I dabble, it's usually PHP, not Perl. And regex confounds me.

Anyway, I do want to make this better and make it a config option. I quickly did it this way, as it served my purposes for the short term.

This little bit of code is my very first draft at having sorttv ignore anything except .mkv and .avi files. i.e. it won't try and sort a file unless it has a .mkv or .avi extension.

Thanks. Since you demonstrated that this is a feature that is really wanted, I have added this to SortTV. I didn't end up using your code, but thanks for your contribution. Please feel free to compare your solution to mine and discuss.

This script is awesome.
I had some trouble getting it going but have succeeded in the end in most part.
One suggestion I have is to make it so you can define all the TV directories you wish to sort to, and the movie directory's. I was thinking that if it could be like in XBMC in the way that you can create a source with multiple folders, but only in reverse, where you create a destination that has multiple folders.
As i have two external USB hdd that i use to store my TV episodes on, and a external for my dvd rip movies and a 3 drive stripe raid array for my HD movies.
I can not get the script to check both drives for existing TV Series. It will check one and not the other, so when it checks which ever drive and not find the folder it will create it, which means that i end up with a folder on each drive for the same TV series.
If there is a way to set it to scan both folders / drives already can someone please point me in the right direction.

Check out this post.

Hey guys.

Thanks to Cliffe and his most excellent sorttv (and my crap hack...see post above this), I have a littleLinux (probably work on Mac too) shell script I use to extract media (if it's RAR'd), sort it, then have Transmission move completed downloads to a seeding directory, where they sit until the ratio is hit. Thought I'd share, in case anyone else can make use of it.

Thanks for sharing, I am sure that other Transmission users will find this helpful. I added some rar support to SortTV, so that should help simplify your script.

First of all, awesome work. SortTV is a great! great! script. Currently I have two scripts
1) Moves finished torrent files to "complete" directory
2) SortTV sorts the "complete" directory

Voila!

Is there a way of incorporating the two? (I use torrentflux-b4rt)

The code checks that the torrent status is "Done" then moves the file and removes the torrent from download. Small bug, it only looks for a file. If it sees a folder instead, it hiccups and still deletes the torrent. Maybe someone could improve/fix that for me?

Thanks. Not sure that it fits in the scope of sorttv.pl, but I am sure that other torrentflux-b4rt users will find that helpful.

Hi Cliffe,
Thanks for your script. Took me hell of a time getting to work on Windows
For people reading you have to download dmake here: http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html and copy it into ~ C:\Perl64\bin
before trying to install and compile stuff.

Now to my question:
In order to use the proper/repack stuff do I need to let the script to rename my tv shows?

I just want the script to look in a folder and check if proper is present and if proper IS present then remove non-proper. No rename no nothing.

Scenario:


Is that possible? I think it only works if I use rename and it checks if file is present etc. and then overwrite. Would it be possible to add support to non-renamed files?


I also got this error:


Config:

Currently the repack overwrite only applies if renaming. Feel free to have a go at adding the feature and sending me a patch.

Not sure why you needed to compile anything manually.

anyway you can add unrar support to be able to go into folders and unrar and then move to another folder, and then rename ?

Sure SortTV now can extract within the directory being sorted before the sort occurs.

Cliffe,

First thank you, and the other contributors as well, for the great work done on this script.

That said, I am having an issue with files names in particular format that has me stumped at the moment... it seems like it is parsing the year in the filename as the Season number instead of picking it up as a date. I have tried running sorttv with match-files-named-showname-episodetitle set to both TRUE and FALSE... but that seems to make no difference.

I think the output below provides pretty good detail around what is happening, if you or anyone else can help i would appreciate it. Also, if there is additional information I should supply please let me know.

Thanks!

*** Update: zeroing in on line 188 from the first error message led me to change season-double-digits from TRUE to FALSE, and everything worked fine. That provides me a decent workaround for now, and hopefully it will be useful to anyone else hitting the same issue. If I can figure out a way to patch the code to eliminate the issue I'll gen a patch and link to it from here.

I think this should be fixed now, but let me know if there are still problems.

Enjoy