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RE: How do you organize your movies? - d00ziie - 2013-11-06 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. RE: How do you organize your movies? - Piers - 2013-11-06 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. RE: How do you organize your movies? - un1versal - 2013-11-06 @Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.avi RE: How do you organize your movies? - Philmatic - 2013-11-06 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. RE: How do you organize your movies? - djbubba2002 - 2013-11-06 (2013-11-06, 18:30)Philmatic Wrote: 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 RE: How do you organize your movies? - nickr - 2013-11-06 (2013-11-06, 18:18)uNiversal Wrote: @Piers That Tv show naming example wont work... Needs to be The Shield\Season 01\The Shield S01E01 episode name.aviNot according to the wiki. RE: How do you organize your movies? - Piers - 2013-11-07 (2013-11-06, 18:18)uNiversal Wrote: @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 RE: How do you organize your movies? - d00ziie - 2013-11-07 (2013-11-06, 18:30)Philmatic Wrote: 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 RE: How do you organize your movies? - GregiBoy - 2013-11-07 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 RE: How do you organize your movies? - Piers - 2013-11-07 This is all of my shows, spread over 4 drives. Quote:Absolutely Fabulous 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? RE: How do you organize your movies? - Piers - 2013-11-07 (2013-11-06, 18:18)uNiversal Wrote: @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. RE: How do you organize your movies? - n1md4 - 2013-11-07 A good reference point:- http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_library/Naming_files/TV_shows http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_library/Naming_files/Movies ... if you're new to XBMC, keep it simple! RE: How do you organize your movies? - nickr - 2013-11-07 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. (2013-11-07, 05:33)n1md4 Wrote: A good reference point:-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! RE: How do you organize your movies? - Piers - 2013-11-07 (2013-11-07, 05:33)n1md4 Wrote: TV/The Walking Dead/Season 1/The Walking Dead S01E01 Days Gone Bye.mkv 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. RE: How do you organize your movies? - n1md4 - 2013-11-07 (2013-11-07, 14:25)Piers Wrote: ... 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! |