Latest file namer / media tagger?

excellent thanks for your time

hammerhead69 Wrote:Would you believe it, about a year ago i got organised with all my films and tv series and manually changed every file and folder name to remove and the .dots and /slashes that annoyed me so everything looked the same in plain english, it took me weeks doing a bit every evening, how funny that im now looking for a programme to change them all back with dots and slashes
my whole film collection is in alphabet folders then in those folders the exact film name folder then the exact film name in the folder
so once this is done it won't matter whether i install xbmc on ubuntu or windows is that right?
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i know this is kinda brief...
wndows download mass file renamer...
make a txt file in the program directory.
learn to use the remove string option.
as you go through the files evertime you highlight a string "eztv" or "-" or "hdtv" ect copy it to the txt file you created.
after awhile you saved txt file will remove almost all garbage from names "semi-automatically"
make some adjustments to the program to fix s1 e1 -> s01e01 type issues..
i took 1 hour to read the help...
renamed almost 3700 files in 3 hours...
anyway i could also upload my string file if you would be interested.

hope that helped someone alittle

Excellent sounds like another useful programme to know I'll check it out thanks

Media companion started yesterday, been running for 20 hours so far, upto 312 films of 1545
Not sure if either of these figures are counting each actual film title of each file, like when some films are split into 2 or even 3 .avi's
From what i've seen looks like i'll have some work cut out, theres a number of films that seem to have been incorrectly tagged, i:e the film 8mm has come up as some russian film?
But its not even half way through yet so i maybe jumping the gun, but whats important is its started and up and running, order my htpc today so i'm on my way

ok so media companinion finished, and im in a right mess, most films have been tagged wrong, lots dont have cover art, i may need to start from scratch
luckily for me i'm an ocd crank and have to have everything mirrored on another drive so the hd i've been scanning is completed backed up,
i think i'll have to put some time aside over the weekend and look into mass file renamer, get these films named correctly (like all the brackets put back around the film year) then maybe media companion will have a chance of doing a decent job
bye the way, if a film is split into 2 avi's i always named them "Warriors 1" and "Warriors 2" media companion picks them up as separate films, is this ok for xbmc to file and play one after the other? or will one finish and i'll then have to start part 2?

ryan03rr
i'd definately like your string file pls
i've read the help, and am still quite confused tbh
i get changing _ to space and easy ones like that, but i have manually changed x amount of files so for example they now read
star wars 1 1978
star wars 2 1978

(guessing the year here )

now is there a way i can change this so the year is in brackets and the avi. file no. is in brackets?
so media companion will better scrape it so xbmc will better sort it?