SortTV: Sort TV episodes, movies, and music into directories for xbmc (Linux/Win/Mac)

(2012-03-16 05:34)crimsonfury Wrote:  Call me newb... But what makes this easier or better than using something like Sickbeard? I wish there was something better but every other options seems like a lot of tweaking of code...

This is more of a hit and run program, you select input/output folder and then it's done. It's lightweight and does what it's suppose to.
Not sure what you mean by tweaking code, but ya you "need" to edit the setup file there's no gui.

(2012-03-16 09:43)Fox Wrote:  

(2012-03-16 05:34)crimsonfury Wrote:  Call me newb... But what makes this easier or better than using something like Sickbeard? I wish there was something better but every other options seems like a lot of tweaking of code...

This is more of a hit and run program, you select input/output folder and then it's done. It's lightweight and does what it's suppose to.
Not sure what you mean by tweaking code, but ya you "need" to edit the setup file there's no gui.

Yes, to quote a comment I made about SB earlier in the thread:

(2011-03-22 06:12)cliffe Wrote:  There is some overlap in features. SortTV has more options for sorting, and I suspect detects more naming schemes (more episode naming formats, music etc).

SortTV doesn't actually download anything, but can be used with any of the plethora of applications that does that. For example, it can be used with Vuze's built in subscriptions, or with torrent episode downloader (TED), or any of the downloaders and schedulers that others have mentioned in this thread. (You could even combine SortTV with Sick Beard, although that might be overkill.)

Once SortTV is setup you can just have any file transfer programs place new files in a directory SortTV sorts, and it will all happen automatically, the files will be moved/copied/symlinked and renamed into a very organised directory structure, images will be downloaded, and xbmc will be notified of the new files.

Development of SortTV has progressed by adding the features requested by its users. There is a lot of control available through the options to specify exactly how SortTV behaves. (Although, hopefully the default behaviour is perfect for most users.) Development of an xbmc front-end has started, which will make configuration easier.

Anyway, if you want lots of control over what happens to your files try out SortTV.

Regarding the front-end comment above: Development of the xbmc front-end seems to have stalled. I personally started working on a separate GUI interface written in C++/Qt, but it is still very incomplete, sitting in a separate development branch. It is low priority for me at the moment, but it might eventually get finished

Anyway, I encourage you to try SortTV out and see if it fits your needs.

Cheers.

(2012-03-16 19:54)cliffe Wrote:  Development of the xbmc front-end seems to have stalled. I personally started working on a separate GUI interface written in C++/Qt, but it is still very incomplete, sitting in a separate development branch. It is low priority for me at the moment, but it might eventually get finished

Anyway, I encourage you to try SortTV out and see if it fits your needs.

Cheers.

Been using SortTV since v.early days, must say I've been dreaming of a GUI (or even a webUI) !!!

The Capt.

Ok... But will it extract .rar files also?

Edit: I can read! Oops.... Yeah I see that it does... I'll try this tonight. I'll be glad if it works better than PITA sickbeard! I for the life of me cant figure out why they made it to where it doesn't install! It is only a webui that only works if you keep a cmd window open or go jump through hoops to get it to stay opened but hidden at system start....

Hello all,

love this script, always hated sorting my shows manually. I have one, hopefully small, feature request. I am doing the initial sort of my shows and movies dir. the shows went fairly well, one or two small easy fixes, but the script only picked up half to two thirds of my movies. looking at the verbose output i found that this was because it was matching the file to 2 or more movies. I would suggest adding a argument to allow manual selection of the movie from the list of matched movies. I hope this isn't already a feature that I missed. I looked through the help and through many of the forum posts and found nothing. I have not looked at the code yet but will see if is something that I could figure out my self.

I was upgrading some older shows to HD versions and had a problem sorting one episode. I am assuming the problem is the / in the episode title.

Quote:Sorting:
From M:/tvsource/
TV episodes into E:/Series/
0:9:57, 31-2-2012
INFO: trying to move Heroes season 4 episode 16
INFO: found a matching show:
E:/Series/Heroes
INFO: found a matching season directory:
E:/Series/Heroes/Season 4
INFO: Fetching episode title for Heroes Season 4 Episode 16.
MOVE EPISODE: sorting M:/tvsource/Heroes - Season 4 (720p .mkv)/Heroes.S04E16.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.mkv --to--> E:/Series/Heroes/Season 4/Heroes - S04E16 - Pass/Fail.mkv
File M:/tvsource/Heroes - Season 4 (720p .mkv)/Heroes.S04E16.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.mkv cannot be moved to E:/Series/Heroes/Season 4/Heroes - S04E16 - Pass/Fail.mkv. : No such file or directory

Hi first of all I must say that this script is great!

But I have some issues that ofcourse may be the lack of knowledge on my side.

One of my "problems" is that I have my series directory where all my series is sorted to. In this directory I have a directory named: Game of Thrones.

But when I try to sort the new Game of Thrones episode i get

Sorting:
From /home/xbmc/Media/downloaded/
TV episodes into /home/xbmc/tvserier/
6:0:6, 9-3-2012
INFO: making show directory: /home/xbmc/tvserier/Game of Throne
DOWNLOAD: downloading images for Game of Throne
INFO: making season directory: /home/xbmc/tvserier/Game of Throne/s2
DOWNLOAD: downloading season image for Game of Throne
MOVE-AND-LEAVE-SYMLINK-BEHIND EPISODE: sorting /home/xbmc/Media/downloaded/Game.of.Thrones.S02E02.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.mkv --to--> /home/xbmc/tvserier/Game of Throne/s2/Game.of.Thrones.S02E02.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.mkv

Is it possible to make sorttv use the already created "old" directory called Game of Thrones? Yes it's only the letter "S" that is missing... When I try to use the directory Game of Throne created by Sorrtv, xbmc won't download the fanart.

magnumk, that seems strange, the series should be called Game of Thrones.
Why SortTV tries to make a new one without the S is beyond me, here it doesn't.

Maybe you could try to set the "require-show-directories-already-exist" to TRUE so it doesn't make a new one.

(2012-04-10 08:24)Fox Wrote:  magnumk, that seems strange, the series should be called Game of Thrones.
Why SortTV tries to make a new one without the S is beyond me, here it doesn't.

Maybe you could try to set the "require-show-directories-already-exist" to TRUE so it doesn't make a new one.

I tried that, see result:

(2012-04-10 13:14)magnumk Wrote:  I tried that, see result:

Code:

Sorting:
        From /home/xbmc/Media/downloaded/
        TV episodes into /home/xbmc/tvserier/
13:12:13, 10-3-2012
INFO: trying to move Game of Throne season 2 episode 2
SKIP: Show directory does not exist: /home/xbmc/tvserier/Game of Throne

Hmm seems like SortTV gets the wrong name for some reason, maybe try with the "tvdb-id-substitute" or the "show-name-substitute" options.
You are using the latest version I guess?