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

I have v5.10.1 of perl running on Ubuntu Server x64.

I also tried your bsd_glob suggestion with no luck.

A new and improved version of SortTV is now available!

New feature:
Sorts complete season directories. Eg "[sort]/Myshow Season 1" or "[sort]/Myshow - Series 1 Complete" would be moved to "[tv]/Myshow/Season 1" (if it does not already exist).

Fixes:
Supports even more naming schemes.
Various fixes such as handling underscores.
Hopefully fixes the directory move problem reported by some users. Please let me know.

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You may need to install the modules the script uses.
To do so, run this command on Linux:
sudo cpan File::Copy::Recursive File::Glob LWP::Simple
On Windows run the same command, without "sudo"

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Get SortTV here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sorttv/files/

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Thanks for the update! I updated the file on my server and so far it appears to be working correctly. I really appreciate all the work you've put into this project as it really puts a nice shinny coat on my whole media acquisition/management setup!

just tested this script and it works nicely but for some reason it takes some movies with it. i had 3 episodes and 2 movies in one folder and ran the script on it, the script moved the 3 episodes just fine, each in its proper folder and season folder, but also moved one of the 2 movies and created a folder for it and a season folder too.

i will look more into this, but i thought i'd post it.

btw, i have a script that looks up tv episodes off thetvdb and creates its nfo and grabs its screen-shot. i will see if i can merge the two together, so after the move, it will lookup the episode info (i know xbmc does that for you, but i had this since some time ago, and im still debating whether to use the xbmc db or use mine and insert it into xbmc db)

megacrypto Wrote:just tested this script and it works nicely but for some reason it takes some movies with it. i had 3 episodes and 2 movies in one folder and ran the script on it, the script moved the 3 episodes just fine, each in its proper folder and season folder, but also moved one of the 2 movies and created a folder for it and a season folder too.

i will look more into this, but i thought i'd post it.

The new pattern matching is quite liberal. I pretty much only use it to sort episodes so I haven't had that problem. The movie title that was moved was probably followed by two numbers, which the script interpreted as season and episode numbers.

There are two simple solutions:
download tv episodes to a separate directory
or
edit the SortTV script to remove the third (catchall) condition in the tv pattern matching

I might do something about this in the future. If anyone else sees this behaviour let me know.

megacrypto Wrote:btw, i have a script that looks up tv episodes off thetvdb and creates its nfo and grabs its screen-shot. i will see if i can merge the two together, so after the move, it will lookup the episode info (i know xbmc does that for you, but i had this since some time ago, and im still debating whether to use the xbmc db or use mine and insert it into xbmc db)

I am pretty happy with the xbmc lookup and database, but it would be pretty easy to edit SortTV to call the other script once it has moved a new episode.

Thanks for the feedback

davemex Wrote:Thanks for the update! I updated the file on my server and so far it appears to be working correctly. I really appreciate all the work you've put into this project as it really puts a nice shinny coat on my whole media acquisition/management setup!

Thanks again for the feedback. I am glad people are finding this helpful!

I would much rather spend the time making it automated than spend the time organising files

I ran into some issues with seasons higher than 9, so I made some modifications to zero-pad the season. Also, added some trimming to handle apostrophes and parentheses in show names.

http://pastebin.com/diff.php?i=FqshYC1w

Thanks for the excellent tool! It managed to parse 2500 of my files in a matter of seconds

salithus Wrote:I ran into some issues with seasons higher than 9, so I made some modifications to zero-pad the season. Also, added some trimming to handle apostrophes and parentheses in show names.

http://pastebin.com/diff.php?i=FqshYC1w

Thanks for the patch! I have applied it to the git repo, and uploaded a new version of SortTV which includes your changes. I added a comment with your username, if you want your real name used let me know.

salithus Wrote:Thanks for the excellent tool! It managed to parse 2500 of my files in a matter of seconds

Cool! I hadn't tried it on a very large number of files at once, so that is great to know.

cliffe Wrote:The new pattern matching is quite liberal. I pretty much only use it to sort episodes so I haven't had that problem. The movie title that was moved was probably followed by two numbers, which the script interpreted as season and episode numbers.

I added an optional "--conservative" flag that will make SortTV be less liberal with the episode pattern matching. Until I change the way arguments are processed, you can currently only use it as the 5th argument.

eg:
perl $HOME/sorttv/sorttv.pl $HOME/Downloads/ $HOME/TV $HOME/Non-episodes localhost:8080 --conservative

is there a way for the script when adding a new folder to add "." instead of spaces?