I screwed up the file names, is there hope?

[drewg]

I have a TV series where I screwed up the file names when I ripped them. I have the totally wrong SxEx and wrong series title. However, I do have the correct episode titles. Is there a way to make BMT automatically replace the series name with the correct one, and search just on the titles, and not SxEx?

For example, I have Pink_Panther_Cartoons-S01E11-The_Pink_Tail_Fly.avi
I want BMT to search TVDB for "Pink Panther" (seriesid=71554) "The Pink Tail Fly"

If I force BMT to search like this manually, I get the metatdata I want. However, I'd like to automate it, since there are 125 or so episodes. I've read about the MediaTitles.xml file, and I tried this feeble attempt:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE titles>

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Pink_Panther_Cartoons/Pink_Panther</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">71554</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

When I try this, I see this in the log:

2011-08-23 16:10:23,476 - ERROR; /var/media/videos/pink_panther/Pink_Panther_Cartoons-S01E10-Pink_Ice.avi; Pink_Panther_Cartoons-S01E10-Pink_Ice; 2474892; Search Failed for SearchQuery [type=TV, fields={FILE: /var/media/videos/pink_panther/Pink_Panther
_Cartoons-S01E10-Pink_Ice.avi,SEASON: 01,DISC: ,RAW_TITLE: Pink Panther Cartoons,CLEAN_TITLE: Pink Panther Cartoons,EPISODE_DA
TE: 2011-08-23,QUERY: Pink Panther Cartoons,EPISODE: 10,}, hints=Hints [hints={update_fanart: true,update_metadata: true,scan_
missing_metadata: true,scan_subfolders: true,import_tv_as_recording: false,refresh: false,}]]

Thanks,

Drew

[wrems]

Not that I want you to go and trash it further but you can use a little naming trick to have BMT search by the titles you have in your filenames.

In the manual you'll see that adding a dash dash will do a fuzzy lookup by title:

Series -- EpisodeTitle

This is used to match TV shows, in the event that you do not know the specific Season and Episode values, but you do know the Episode Title. The Series and

Episode must be separated by 2 dashes.
Examples
House -- Random Episode.avi
Lie to Me -- Pilot.avi

So you could process your filenames with another renaming tool to take out the SxxExx info and replace it with -- and let it fly with BMT. Maybe have to tweak a few but it could be better than the alternative. Otherwise if your sxxexx are consistently off some renames will allow you to do some regex arguments to change it...

[drewg]

Originally Posted by wrems

Not that I want you to go and trash it further but you can use a little naming trick to have BMT search by the titles you have in your filenames.

Ah, thanks. For some reason, I missed that in the manual. I will try this!
It is not possible to screw it up further

Drew

[drewg]

Originally Posted by wrems

Episode must be separated by 2 dashes.
Examples
House -- Random Episode.avi
Lie to Me -- Pilot.avi

OK, so I have a simple sed script I'll use to generate the new names. Before I do it, can you confirm that the new name is what BMT will like?

% echo Pink_Panther_Cartoons-S01E11-The_Pink_Tail_Fly.avi | sed -e 's|_Cartoons\-S01E[0-9]*|\-|g'
Pink_Panther--The_Pink_Tail_Fly.avi

Or do I need it insert spaces (or _) around the double dashes (--)

Thanks,

Drew

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by drewg

OK, so I have a simple sed script I'll use to generate the new names. Before I do it, can you confirm that the new name is what BMT will like?

% echo Pink_Panther_Cartoons-S01E11-The_Pink_Tail_Fly.avi | sed -e 's|_Cartoons\-S01E[0-9]*|\-|g'
Pink_Panther--The_Pink_Tail_Fly.avi

Or do I need it insert spaces (or _) around the double dashes (--)

Thanks,

Drew

I would put spaces around the -- so that it's "Series -- Episode Name", and also, unless you have a perference for it, I'd drop the underscores the use spaces, so it would be "Pink Panther -- The Pink Tall Fly.avi"... I think BMT MAY remove the underscores, but I'm not 100% sure.

[drewg]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I would put spaces around the -- so that it's "Series -- Episode Name", and also, unless you have a perference for it, I'd drop the underscores the use spaces, so it would be "Pink Panther -- The Pink Tall Fly.avi"... I think BMT MAY remove the underscores, but I'm not 100% sure.

Blech. I'm a *nix guy, so I despise spaces in filenames. But I'll do it like you say

Thanks!

Drew

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by drewg

Blech. I'm a *nix guy, so I despise spaces in filenames. But I'll do it like you say

Thanks!

Drew

That's oK, I'm a unix guy as well

[drewg]

Originally Posted by stuckless

That's oK, I'm a unix guy as well

BTW, thanks a million. That worked!

Drew

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by drewg

BTW, thanks a million. That worked!

Drew

Glad it worked.