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I have a media sorting script set up. That takes stuff from my downloads folder figured out if its TV or a Movie and renames and sorts it.
Its using this python library called guessit https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit Guessit extracts info about the file from the filename. Its like magic.
Edit: Just remembered I uploaded it to github. Its not the best cause Im subpar at this kind of stuff. But here it is. https://github.com/ZeroPoke/Sorterr
Nice, pretty cool!
Ugh. I was excited until I saw it's for Windows. Doh!
It's platform agnostic, the .reg file is a helper to make it easier to use on windows 👍
Awesome, that asks for the info. Gotta try this out later; I don't even have a large library, but the renaming is so tedious! But clicking through to identify each file that Jellyfin didn't automatically identify is worse...
Yup totally agreed, Jellyfin has been awesome for the most part but still needs those rough edges sanded down
I don't have any specific recommendations for a discrete tool for this, but radarr and sonarr can do this automatically if you enable it.
Yeah I messed around with both for a time but couldn't really get into it - can't place my finger on why either, just the whole *arr suite is not for me somehow.
They're super straightforward though?
You set up indexers to be searched for content.
You set up downloaders that can download from the indexers.
You set up the downloads and the media folder (e.g. the series folder for Sonarr).
Then you simply add whatever content you want downloaded.
Finally you can set the renaming in a very neat templating language.
Yup, pretty easy - like I said, it's a vibe check, no clue lol
i used to use 'media elch' before i figured out the 'arrs.
Appreciated! I’ve been trying to get myself to get going on doing some renaming so this is a nice catalyst
Anytime!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CF | CloudFlare |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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