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- upD8R - 2012-01-06 15:17
snowjim Wrote:It looks like I will have to unpack all my TVshows and thats alot! So I am now develop a small Windows application to handle this form me.
Returns with the result.
Not sure how fast you write code but I'd move all avi/mkv/etc into one directory and let TheRenamer do the rest ...
- snowjim - 2012-01-06 15:27
upD8R Wrote:Not sure how fast you write code but I'd move all avi/mkv/etc into one directory and let TheRenamer do the rest ...
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 :
Quote:MyTVShows
- TVShow1
-- Sesson 1
--- Episode.S01E01
---- Episode.S01E01.rar Archive
-- Sesson 2
--- Episode.S02E01
---- Episode.S02E01.rar Archive
- TVShow2
-- Sesson 1
--- Episode.S01E01
---- Episode.S01E01.rar Archive
-- Sesson 2
--- Episode.S02E01
---- Episode.S02E01.rar Archive
- bodrick - 2012-01-06 17:01
TheStretchedElf Wrote:The bundled bulk renamer is only implemented for movies. Selecting it under TV Shows gives the message "Not implemented yet".
What I need is something that will rename based on the .nfo and as far as I can tell only Ember does this (albeit limited to movies). The reason for this is the "shows" I wish to rename don't appear on TheTVDB, they are actually sports events which have been managed in Ember to appear as TV Shows in XBMC, (e.g. Super League, Season 2011, Episode 1: Round 1 - Wigan v St Helens).
TheRenamer, and the many similar tools I've found on the web, seem only able to rename TV Shows based on information they find on TheTVDB or similar, not the nfo file.
I'm not sure when but yes it is my plan to implement the renaming functionality for TV shows as well, its low on the list of things to do, but its there none the less
- TeKo - 2012-01-06 17:24
I dont know 100% how the renamer works but why is there a difference between Shows and Movies?
- bobrap - 2012-01-06 17:30
TV vs Movies
- upD8R - 2012-01-06 18:34
snowjim Wrote:Hmm this sounds like a method I dont know about? What will TheRenamer do?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.
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 :
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 ...
- TheStretchedElf - 2012-01-06 21:20
bodrick Wrote:I'm not sure when but yes it is my plan to implement the renaming functionality for TV shows as well, its low on the list of things to do, but its there none the less
Well it's great news that it's on the to-do list, not so great that it's low down on it. Thanks for your continuing efforts.
- seth.feinberg - 2012-01-06 22:05
First off, thank you so much for reviving this amazing program. In my trials it was head and shoulders the best media manager I could find (and still is).
I have a few questions and would be very appreciative of any help anyone could offer:
1) Whats the best way to install this new version. I had an older (I believe 32bit version, there was folder created in the Programs x86 folder upon installation on my Windows7 64bit HTPC) and I have very meticulously organized almost everything. I downloaded the new file (from bodricks site), extracted it to my download folder and clicked on the embermediamanager.exe file assuming it would install over my old install. I realize that was an incorrect assumption. The new instance works great (scraped ALL my tv shows and movies) but is missing thumbnails and info on many movies. I thought EMM saved these files to their folders and then read what was there. All of the applicable files ARE in the correct folder (the movies name) they just don't seem to be reading. Also the old Ember Media Manager folder in my Programs x86 directory is loaded with the fanarts from before. I just don't want to redo all this work and I'm sure all of these issues would be taken care of if I knew just a little bit more about the best way to install the new version over the old. (Sorry this is such a n00b question).
2) This is an issue I was having with the older version of EMM that has seemed to carry over: Very inconsistent implementation of SortTitle. I use this a couple of ways and would love it to work ALL the time. I have EMM put the foreign title of a foreign film in as its title and its English title for SortTitle (ex: "Wo hu cang long" for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"). Often this works, displaying "Wo hu cang long" but sorting it in the list under "C". But it doesn't work for ALL my foreign films and NEVER works for my second implementation. This second use is an alternate to movie sets. I label all the Planet of the Apes films correctly (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, etc) but label them in SortTitle chronologically (i.e. Planet of the Apes 1, Planet of the Apes 2, etc). After I put in these changes and save it NEVER sorts the way I want. If I right click and edit movie, my SortTitle is still in there and if I look at the NFO I can see <sorttitle> populated, but it just doesn't seem to take.
3) For TV Shows, I would love to be able to have the ability to save BOTH a banner image AND a poster sized thumbnail. This is so I could switch between views in XBMC. I already have a poster sized picture in the specific TV Shows folders with the All-Seasons picture, I would just like to copy that picture inside the file and rename it to folder.jpg or whatever the alternate format that XBMC recognizes is. Sorry for not having more specific details, I'm at work and don't the programs in front of me.
Thanks again everyone and sorry for the long post.
- TeKo - 2012-01-06 22:20
3)
When I click on scrape on a TV Show I can choose Poster (Banner), Fanart, All Season Poster (Poster) + the Posters for each Season.
- upD8R - 2012-01-06 23:28
re 2)
The sort title field is not properly recognized by Ember but I wasn't aware that Ember should use it for its own sorting.
Nevertheless, the sorting works fine for me in XBMC if it's set in Ember.