Advice on File renaming, metadata, use with WMC

[ttfitz]

The bulk renamer is actually just a function in the imageGrab with a GUI that I am working on. It is designed for working from the recording tables only, but if you are using MCE you might find other plugins to help you if you have moved them. There is also TVRename http://www.tvrename.com/ for files not in the database.

Martin

I'll keep an eye out for your GUI, thanks. I seem to recall a NPVR utility to load files back into the recording tables, so maybe I can combine that with your bulk renamer to get things in shape.

As for other utilities, I can't say I've been on an exhaustive search, but so far I haven't run across anything that I can get the standard NPVR filenames to be recognized for lookups, which is why I've been looking at NPVR specific solutions, at least to rename files I currently have.

I have to say I've been a bit mystified by some of the requirements, too - your files have to be named in some form of "SxxExx" for most of these things, so why do most of them ALSO require you put your files in folders called "Season X", too?

Okay, mini-rant over. Thanks for your help.

[Sykor]

TVRename is great once you get the hang of it. Mainly because of it's flexible regex struture, and the ability to "appoint" unrecognized episodes to their correct season/episode and be done with.
From there, it's a question of using your favorite media scrapper/retriever to populate them with metadata

[ttfitz]

TVRename is great once you get the hang of it. Mainly because of it's flexible regex struture, and the ability to "appoint" unrecognized episodes to their correct season/episode and be done with.
From there, it's a question of using your favorite media scrapper/retriever to populate them with metadata

Any advice on getting TVRename to rename standard NPVR files would be greatly appreciated. Looking at regex definitions makes my head hurt.

Thanks.

[Sykor]

Any advice on getting TVRename to rename standard NPVR files would be greatly appreciated. Looking at regex definitions makes my head hurt.

Thanks.

In this case NextPVR's showname-date-and-time-of-recording.ts format makes it for all purposes impossible to automatically detect the episode. What you can do, is after adding the show to TVRename's database, do a scan. It'll try to detected the episodes you have, and does you don't. For those it does not find, but you know you have, right-click them, and select the correct file for that episode. When you're done, commit the changes made, and TVRename, will rename (if requested), and move (also if requested), etc.
Careful with the renaming/moving options, if you're dealing with current recordings, they will become unavailable for NPVR.