File Renaming Utility: AddEpisode

[turkey]

ok, ok... patience leecole

i'm looking into adding this type of function

[leecole]

ok, ok... patience leecole

i'm looking into adding this type of function

I know that the solution I proposed is not elegant, but it will work, I would appeal to you to add the single line of code I offered, until a more elegant solution is done. I am anxious to get the entire process automated.

add:
FileWriteLine(@ScriptDir & "\NewFileName.bat","Set new=" & $NewFileName) ; Where $NewFileName is actually whatever you have the new filename stored in.

[kermi3]

Hey Turkey - great plugin, I've been looking for something like it. I had one problem though, I addded

Code:

addepisode %1 "{show}{[ - ]}{season and episode}{[ - ]}{episode}"

to the end of my postprocessing file (right before the eof). The files appear to be getting renamed properly, however they are no longer appearing in my Recordings section of GBPVR. The only other plugin I'm running is comskip.

I'm sure I'm just doing some little thing wrong, but I can't seem to find it on the wiki or on this thread. Any help would be apprciated.

Thanks, K3

[turkey]

@ kermi3:

if you dont mind troubleshooting, i will help you out. First, look in the log file, addepisode.log in the gbpvr directory. Any errors, or just "blah renamed to blah"? Second, check to make sure it actually is disappearing from the gbpvr database, however you want to do that. Third, remove everything else from the postprocessing.bat, and use only a single formatting token like {show} and record something normally, and see if that shows up in the gbpvr database.


@ everyone else

I will release an updated version of addepisode in a few days with the ability to redirect the new filename as leecole wanted. If there are any other easy tweaks that anyone wants added in, let me know.

[kermi3]

Thanks, I'll start trouble shooting it.

[Gordonx42]

If there are any other easy tweaks that anyone wants added in, let me know.

I would love it if this utility would include apostrophes in the file name. I use a tv info database and it doesn't work if punctuation is missing. For example, addepisode names a file "Im Here" instead of "I'm Here" as its listed in the gbpvr tv guide.

[Gordonx42]

Is development on this abandoned? should i try renamerecordings?

[turkey]

i haven't abandoned it, i still use it every day.... that said, i am not actively writing code for it, mainly because it is working for me as i want it to.

As for the apostrophe, sorry but i don't think that will work. It is a limitation of autoit, in which i wrote addepisode. Sorry i didn't respond when you made that comment, i must have missed it.

[pharmd24]

Question:

I'm using zap2it plugin here in the states to get my program info. For some strange reason some of my shows are not getting episode data and the name of the episode is in the subtitle. Is there a way to add subtitle info to the choices of addepisode?? Avatar and House are the two examples of the shows that are giving me trouble.

Thanks and thanks for the plugin

edit: Found what the problem was here

[turkey]

edit: Found what the problem was

glad you found the problem, but it sounds like there isn't an easy solution to that problem.

Download the new version of Addepisode here.

Anyway, i have added in the ability to rename the file using the description (what you called subtitle) On most shows the description is quite long, so I have limited it to 50 characters. I'm not sure that this will solve your problem, as you will probably have to be very creative with your batch file to get only those specific shows renamed with the description as the episode name. You could also try to swap out the description field for the episode field in the database only for those shows...try this thread.

I have also added in the ability to return the new filename to the batch file. The procedure is outlined in the help text file included in the download.

As always, let me know if anyone has any problems, and I'll try to help.