Renaming of files

[gmann001]

I've been thinking about going through all my movies/tv shows and renaming them to a more standard naming convention. Right now the file names are very basic (just show name plus episode name) and although they are not really causing any issues, I would like them to be more standardized (that and allow serviio to better serve them)

My question is... whats the best/recommended naming convention for movies,tv shows, and even audio.

Thoughts?

[zip]

for movies, the folder matters most, ideally including the year if there are more movies with the same name, e.g.

  Code:

 "The Movie (2009)/the movie.avi"

or

  Code:

 "d:\movies\The Movie (2009).avi"

For series you can do something like:

  Code:

d:\videos\series\how I met your mother\season 1\s01e01 - episode name.avi

[gmann001]

Is there a certain way I can get it so some of my Movies show up under "Series"? For example, I would like Star Wars Episodes 1-6 all listed as a Star Wars series. In my .NFO files there is a node for this called SET. Which does what I am looking for on XBMC. Can Serviio use this node if set?

  Code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<movie>
  <title>Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back</title>
  <originaltitle>Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back</originaltitle>
  <sorttitle>Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back</sorttitle>
  <set>Star Wars [Collection]</set>
  <rating>9.9</rating>
  <year>1980</year>
  <top250>0</top250>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <outline>While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.</outline>
  <plot>While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.</plot>
  <tagline></tagline>
  <thumb>M:\Movies\S\Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back.jpg</thumb>
  <mpaa>PG</mpaa>
  <id>tt0080684</id>
  <filenameandpath>M:\Movies\S\Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back.avi</filenameandpath>
  <genre>Action</genre>
  <genre>Adventure</genre>
  <genre>Family</genre>
  <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
  <genre>Rated PG</genre>
  <credits>
    <writer>Leigh Brackett</writer>
    <writer>Lawrence Kasdan</writer>
  </credits>
  <studio></studio>
  <fileinfo>
    <streamdetails>
      <video>
        <width>720</width>
        <height>306</height>
      </video>
    </streamdetails>
  </fileinfo>
  <director>Irvin Kershner</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Mark Hamill</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Harrison Ford</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Carrie Fisher</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Billy Dee Williams</name>
  </actor>
</movie>




[zip]

no, it won't work. this field is not used.

[gmann001]

ok... how about if I restructure my files so that all the Star Wars movies are in their own sub-folder? Would it show up under Series then? Or is Series only for tv shows?

[moltra]

Series are just for series.

You might be able to put the files in their own folder and add that folder to serviio. Disable online metadata, and create your own series information in a nfo file. Take the xml nfo information below and customize it. By putting in the information on the Star Wars movies and creating a seperate episode.nfo for each movie.

  Code:

TV Shows
The filename of the NFO should be tvshow.nfo (Exact, NOT the name of the actual TV show) and it should be in the root folder of the TV show.
The nfo xml file may contain a valid <episodeguideurl> to allow online updates. If not, only episodes with nfo files will be added.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow>
    <title>MythBusters</title>
    <rating>9.300001</rating>
    <year>0</year>
    <top250>0</top250>
    <season>-1</season>
    <episode>143</episode>
    <displayseason>-1</displayseason>
    <displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
    <votes></votes>
    <outline></outline>
    <plot>So exactly how hard is it to find a needle in a haystack, anyway? And can water dripping on your forehead really drive you nuts? Those are the kinds of questions, myths and urban legends that are put to the test in this humorous series to find out which ones hold water (and keep it from dripping on your forehead and driving you insane).</plot>
    <tagline></tagline>
    <runtime></runtime>
    <thumb>http://thetvdb.com/banners/graphical/73388-g3.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb>http://thetvdb.com/banners/graphical/73388-g2.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="1">http://thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/73388-1.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="0">http://thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/73388-0.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="2">http://thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/73388-2.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="-1">http://thetvdb.com/banners/posters/73388-1.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart url="http://thetvdb.com/banners/">
        <thumb dim="1920x1080" colors="|183,185,161|51,51,51|206,205,185|" preview="_cache/fanart/original/73388-6.jpg">fanart/original/73388-6.jpg</thumb>
        <thumb dim="1280x720" colors="|255,255,240|101,141,117|129,132,123|" preview="_cache/fanart/original/73388-1.jpg">fanart/original/73388-1.jpg</thumb>
    </fanart>
    <mpaa>TV-PG</mpaa>
    <playcount>0</playcount>
    <lastplayed></lastplayed>
    <episodeguide>
        <url cache="73388.xml">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/73388/all/en.zip</url>
    </episodeguide>
    <id>73388</id>
    <genre>Reality</genre>
    <set></set>
    <credits></credits>
    <director></director>
    <premiered>2003-01-23</premiered>
    <status></status>
    <code></code>
    <aired></aired>
    <studio>Discovery</studio>
    <trailer></trailer>
    <actor>
        <name>Robert Lee</name>
        <role>USA Narrator</role>
        <thumb></thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Adam Savage</name>
        <role></role>
        <thumb></thumb>
    </actor>
    <artist></artist>
</tvshow>TV Episodes
The *.nfo must be named exactly as the episode filename (i.e. episodename.avi and episodename.nfo) and in the same folder, allowing multiple episode and *.nfo files within the same folder. Episode names must still follow the naming convention even though you are using a custom NFO file.

For multi-part episodes, simply add multiple <episodedetails> XML blocks in succession.

    <episodedetails>
        <title>My TV Episode</title>
        <rating>10.00</rating>
        <season>2</season>
        <episode>1</episode>
        <plot>he best episode in the world</plot>
        <thumb>http://thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/164981/2528821.jpg</thumb>
        <playcount>0</playcount>
        <lastplayed></lastplayed>
        <credits>Writer</credits>
        <director>Mr. Vision</director>
        <aired>2000-12-31</aired>
        <premiered>2010-09-24</premiered>
        <studio>Production studio or channel</studio>
        <mpaa>MPAA certification</mpaa>
        <epbookmark>200</epbookmark>  <!-- For media files containing multiple episodes,
                                        where value is the time where the next episode begins in seconds  -->
        <displayseason>3</displayseason>  <!-- For TV show specials, determines how the episode is sorted in the series  -->
        <displayepisode>4096</displayepisode>
        <actor>
          <name>Little Suzie</name>
          <role>Pole Jumper/Dancer</role>
        </actor>
        <fileinfo>
          <streamdetails>
            <audio>
              <channels>6</channels>
              <codec>ac3</codec>
            </audio>
            <video>
              <aspect>1.778</aspect>
              <codec>h264</codec>
              <durationinseconds>587</durationinseconds>
              <height>720</height>
              <language>eng</language>
              <longlanguage>English</longlanguage>
              <scantype>Progressive</scantype>
              <width>1280</width>
            </video>
          </streamdetails>
        </fileinfo>
    </episodedetails>

I am not sure that this will work, but I see no reason it should not.

[gmann001]

Thanks for the information! I will try that.

[moltra]

Let us know if you get it working.

[gmann001]

I finally had some time to try creating a "series" with my movies and just can't seem to get this to work. I'm starting small with just trying to get my 3 episodes of Minion Madness to work (from the Despicible Me movie shorts).

The Minion Madness are in their own folder and I created a tvshow.nfo for that folder. I also created new nfo files for each of the three movie shorts using the episodedetails format. Nothing is working. Instead I am getting a warning saying that the tvshow can not be parsed.

  Code:

2011-07-31 10:15:58,820 INFO  [LibraryAdditionsCheckerThread] Added file 'Despicable Me - Home Makeover Mini Movie (2010).avi' (title: Despicable Me - Home Makeover Mini Movie (2010)) to Library
2011-07-31 10:15:59,431 WARN  [LibraryManager] Cannot read metadata of file M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\Despicable Me - Orientation Day Mini Movie (2010).avi via extractor XBMC. Message: File 'M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\tvshow.nfo' couldn't be parsed: null


I double checked the XML to make sure that all nodes are opened/closed properly and can not find anything wrong with it...

  Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<tvshow>
  <title>Despicable Me - Minion Madness</title>
  <rating>9.300001</rating>
  <year>0</year>
  <season>-1</season>
  <episode>3</episode>
  <plot>Vying for the title of "World’s Greatest Villain", Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) – along with his hilarious crew of mischievous minions – plots to pull off the craziest crime of the century: steal the moon! But when Gru enlists the help of three little girls, they see something in him nobody else has ever seen: the perfect dad.</plot>
  <mpaa>G</mpaa>
  <genre>Animation</genre>
  <genre>Short</genre>
  <genre>Comedy</genre>
  <genre>Family</genre>
  <set>Despicable Me - Minion Madness</set>
  <credits>
    <writer>Pierre Coffin</writer>
    <writer>Brett Hoffman</writer>
  </credits>
  <premiered>2010-01-01</premiered>
  <director>Kyle Balda</director>
  <director>Samuel Tourneux</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Rob Huebel</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Miranda Cosgrove</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Elsie Fisher</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Pierre Coffin</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Dana Gaier</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Pierre Coffin</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Minions</name>
  </actor>
</tvshow>


Thoughts anyone?

[Cerberus]

I finally had some time to try creating a "series" with my movies and just can't seem to get this to work. I'm starting small with just trying to get my 3 episodes of Minion Madness to work (from the Despicible Me movie shorts).

The Minion Madness are in their own folder and I created a tvshow.nfo for that folder. I also created new nfo files for each of the three movie shorts using the episodedetails format. Nothing is working. Instead I am getting a warning saying that the tvshow can not be parsed.

  Code:

2011-07-31 10:15:58,820 INFO  [LibraryAdditionsCheckerThread] Added file 'Despicable Me - Home Makeover Mini Movie (2010).avi' (title: Despicable Me - Home Makeover Mini Movie (2010)) to Library
2011-07-31 10:15:59,431 WARN  [LibraryManager] Cannot read metadata of file M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\Despicable Me - Orientation Day Mini Movie (2010).avi via extractor XBMC. Message: File 'M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\tvshow.nfo' couldn't be parsed: null


I double checked the XML to make sure that all nodes are opened/closed properly and can not find anything wrong with it...

  Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<tvshow>
  <title>Despicable Me - Minion Madness</title>
  <rating>9.300001</rating>
  <year>0</year>
  <season>-1</season>
  <episode>3</episode>
  <plot>Vying for the title of "World’s Greatest Villain", Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) – along with his hilarious crew of mischievous minions – plots to pull off the craziest crime of the century: steal the moon! But when Gru enlists the help of three little girls, they see something in him nobody else has ever seen: the perfect dad.</plot>
  <mpaa>G</mpaa>
  <genre>Animation</genre>
  <genre>Short</genre>
  <genre>Comedy</genre>
  <genre>Family</genre>
  <set>Despicable Me - Minion Madness</set>
  <credits>
    <writer>Pierre Coffin</writer>
    <writer>Brett Hoffman</writer>
  </credits>
  <premiered>2010-01-01</premiered>
  <director>Kyle Balda</director>
  <director>Samuel Tourneux</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Rob Huebel</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Miranda Cosgrove</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Elsie Fisher</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Pierre Coffin</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Dana Gaier</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Pierre Coffin</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Minions</name>
  </actor>
</tvshow>


Thoughts anyone?

try using the renaming tool i posted in the third party forums that made short work of ll my movies and tv series and named them all correctly for me:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2878

[moltra]

try using the renaming tool i posted in the third party forums that made short work of ll my movies and tv series and named them all correctly for me:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2878

He is not trying to rename individual files. He is trying to customize the metadata to get movies that are in a series ie Star Wars in a common series format like a TV series format.

I noticed that you are missing a few of the tag groups from the example of this page.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Import_-_Export_Library#TV_Shows I would try and make sure it meets this as close as possible. Or maybe even copying the example and changing the title and set information and seeing if it works.

You might be able to install xbmc and import your .nfo files and see if it finds any problems. Or you might be able to use a program like notepad ++ to Validate your .nfo xml file.

if you have firefox installed it will also help validate your xml file.

[Cerberus]

try using the renaming tool i posted in the third party forums that made short work of ll my movies and tv series and named them all correctly for me:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2878

He is not trying to rename individual files. He is trying to customize the metadata to get movies that are in a series ie Star Wars in a common series format like a TV series format.

I noticed that you are missing a few of the tag groups from the example of this page.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Import_-_Export_Library#TV_Shows I would try and make sure it meets this as close as possible. Or maybe even copying the example and changing the title and set information and seeing if it works.

You might be able to install xbmc and import your .nfo files and see if it finds any problems. Or you might be able to use a program like notepad ++ to Validate your .nfo xml file.

if you have firefox installed it will also help validate your xml file.

ok so clearly you guessed again moltra and did not even fully read the linked thread.

[moltra]

try using the renaming tool i posted in the third party forums that made short work of ll my movies and tv series and named them all correctly for me:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2878

He is not trying to rename individual files. He is trying to customize the metadata to get movies that are in a series ie Star Wars in a common series format like a TV series format.

I noticed that you are missing a few of the tag groups from the example of this page.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Import_-_Export_Library#TV_Shows I would try and make sure it meets this as close as possible. Or maybe even copying the example and changing the title and set information and seeing if it works.

You might be able to install xbmc and import your .nfo files and see if it finds any problems. Or you might be able to use a program like notepad ++ to Validate your .nfo xml file.

if you have firefox installed it will also help validate your xml file.

ok so clearly you guessed again moltra and did not even fully read the linked thread.

I think that you missed a few posts in This thread. He does not want to match the names on any of these;

IMDb.com, TV.com, theTVDB.com, EPGUIDES.com and MMA

He is trying to group the Star Wars Movies into folder under "Series" Called "Star Wars".

That is why he is trying to create a special tvshow.nfo file in xml.

Is there a certain way I can get it so some of my Movies show up under "Series"? For example, I would like Star Wars Episodes 1-6 all listed as a Star Wars series. In my .NFO files there is a node for this called SET. Which does what I am looking for on XBMC. Can Serviio use this node if set?

  Code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<movie>
  <title>Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back</title>
  <originaltitle>Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back</originaltitle>
  <sorttitle>Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back</sorttitle>
  <set>Star Wars [Collection]</set>
  <rating>9.9</rating>
  <year>1980</year>
  <top250>0</top250>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <outline>While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.</outline>
  <plot>While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.</plot>
  <tagline></tagline>
  <thumb>M:\Movies\S\Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back.jpg</thumb>
  <mpaa>PG</mpaa>
  <id>tt0080684</id>
  <filenameandpath>M:\Movies\S\Star Wars 5 - The Empire Strikes Back.avi</filenameandpath>
  <genre>Action</genre>
  <genre>Adventure</genre>
  <genre>Family</genre>
  <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
  <genre>Rated PG</genre>
  <credits>
    <writer>Leigh Brackett</writer>
    <writer>Lawrence Kasdan</writer>
  </credits>
  <studio></studio>
  <fileinfo>
    <streamdetails>
      <video>
        <width>720</width>
        <height>306</height>
      </video>
    </streamdetails>
  </fileinfo>
  <director>Irvin Kershner</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Mark Hamill</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Harrison Ford</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Carrie Fisher</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Billy Dee Williams</name>
  </actor>
</movie>




[gmann001]

I just tried renaming the movie files, but the log still shows that it's unable to parse the tvshow.nfo file. For the life of me, I can not see what's wrong with the NFO file.

  Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<tvshow>
  <title>Minion Madness</title>
  <rating>8.0</rating>
  <year>0</year>
  <id>-1</id>
  <season>-1</season>
  <episode>3</episode>
  <displayseason>-1</displayseason>
  <displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
  <plot></plot>
  <mpaa>G</mpaa>
  <genre>Animation</genre>
  <genre>Short</genre>
  <genre>Comedy</genre>
  <genre>Family</genre>
  <set>Minion Madness</set>
  <credits>
    <writer>Pierre Coffin</writer>
    <writer>Brett Hoffman</writer>
  </credits>
  <premiered>2010-01-01</premiered>
  <director>Kyle Balda</director>
  <director>Samuel Tourneux</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Rob Huebel</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Miranda Cosgrove</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Elsie Fisher</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Pierre Coffin</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Dana Gaier</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Minions</name>
  </actor>
</tvshow>


Heres what the log shows...

  Code:

2011-07-31 13:36:33,155 WARN  [LibraryManager] Cannot read metadata of file M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\Season 1\Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover.avi via extractor XBMC. Message: File 'M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\tvshow.nfo' couldn't be parsed: null
2011-07-31 13:36:33,248 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover' (M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\Season 1\Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover.avi) in Library
2011-07-31 13:36:33,634 WARN  [LibraryManager] Cannot read metadata of file M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\Season 1\Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E02.Orientation Day.avi via extractor XBMC. Message: File 'M:\Movies\D\Despicable Me - Minion Madness\tvshow.nfo' couldn't be parsed: null


Is it because I'm trying to fool Serviio into thinking that a movie is a TV series? I'm not a big fan of having to rename movie files to look like TV shows, but thought I'd try it anyway. I even redid the directory structure for these files (I added a season directory even though there is no such thing)

  Code:

M:\Movies\D\
  |__ Despicable Me - Minion Madness
        |_ tvshow.nfo
        |_ Season 1
             |_Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover.avi
             |_Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover.jpg
             |_Despicable Me - Minion Madness.S01E01.Home Makeover.nfo
             |_ .....


Just too bad Serviio can't understand the <SET> node within an NFO file. Would make things so much easier and less "hacked"

[moltra]

I will try it when I get home and see what I can come up with. It should work using the tvshow.nfo file. I want to see if I can get this to work myself, cause it would be a great was to organize my vacation movies.

[gmann001]

It was clearly something in my NFO file (posted in previous post above) that serviio is not liking. I stripped out everything except the title (see below) and now it's picking it up.

  Code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<tvshow>
  <title>Minion Madness</title>
</tvshow>



[moltra]

Ok, I would then put in the 1st half and see if there error comes back. If it does I would cut out the 1st half of what is there and try it again, if not I would put in the 1st half of the 2nd half. and keep doing this until I have narrowed it down to the problem. Basically you split each problem area down until you find the problem.

[gmann001]

Let us know if you get it working.

Ok, it worked... kind of.

I was only able to get it to work by placing the movies in a "season 1" subfolder (unless I am doing something wrong). The the movies are grouped, however, the display just makes no sense. I click on SERIES, then select STAR WARS, then click on SEASON 1 to access my movies. Ontop of that the movies are all listed with the numbering now. Not exactly what I was trying for. So as mentioned above, it worked (since it did what Serviio is supposed to do), it just didn't give me the result I liked.

It would be so great if SERVIIO used the SET field of the NFO files. That would take care of exactly what I am trying to get.

[moltra]

I am glad that you got it working a in a way

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[Illico]

It would be so great if SERVIIO used the SET field of the NFO files. That would take care of exactly what I am trying to get.

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