2009-10-26, 21:01
Personally, I hand-renamed those Modern Marvels episodes all by hand. I had it even worse, too: the titles were things like "MM ED4.avi", so I had to watch each one for the episode title spoken by the announcer just before the title sequence. It was a pain! LOL!
Anyhow, having personally renamed literally tens of thousands of movies and TV shows over the years, I want to stress everywhere I can that:
PEOPLE WHO ENCODE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES NEED TO GIVE THEM GOOD FILENAMES. (And thanks for doing the encoding!)
Movies need to include the year in parens for XBMC to have no problems finding them, such as "Batman (1989).mkv".
FWIW, I use a home-spun VBS to automatically strip group-tags, convert periods to spaces, format the year if it's there, etc. I'm proud of how well-organized my collection is, but it was time-consuming.
Also, thanks for the "SmartRename" suggestion! So far it's better than the "TV Show Renamer" I used to use, primarily because it can move files into proper folders! (Something that takes this user ~15 minutes each day to do.)
Anyhow, having personally renamed literally tens of thousands of movies and TV shows over the years, I want to stress everywhere I can that:
PEOPLE WHO ENCODE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES NEED TO GIVE THEM GOOD FILENAMES. (And thanks for doing the encoding!)
Movies need to include the year in parens for XBMC to have no problems finding them, such as "Batman (1989).mkv".
FWIW, I use a home-spun VBS to automatically strip group-tags, convert periods to spaces, format the year if it's there, etc. I'm proud of how well-organized my collection is, but it was time-consuming.
Also, thanks for the "SmartRename" suggestion! So far it's better than the "TV Show Renamer" I used to use, primarily because it can move files into proper folders! (Something that takes this user ~15 minutes each day to do.)
