2013-07-01, 21:45
Hi there,
at some point of time I decided naming all my movie file names just with the name of the film, no year, no resolution, no audio track quality, nothing else, except for enumerating the parts, if there are more than one.
I now realize that is suboptimal for XBMC when you have to rebuild your library from scratch. Often you have to manually replace the oldest film of the same name with the latest one of the same name.
So I would like to rename all existing movies on my file system (but cetainly not manually) so that the file names contain the movie name and the year of appearance, and possible the part if multi-part.
What strategy would you suggest to do this in an automatized fashion? Is it possible for XBMC to rename files in a scripted way?
XBMC knows in its library currently which file is which IMDB ID and what year it was released. Is there an existing script that would take for each movie in the DB (using remote MySQL here), take the file name and append the year before the multi-part/file extension and rename the original file?
Any chance of doing this using Couchpotato?
Thanks for caring
JC
at some point of time I decided naming all my movie file names just with the name of the film, no year, no resolution, no audio track quality, nothing else, except for enumerating the parts, if there are more than one.
I now realize that is suboptimal for XBMC when you have to rebuild your library from scratch. Often you have to manually replace the oldest film of the same name with the latest one of the same name.
So I would like to rename all existing movies on my file system (but cetainly not manually) so that the file names contain the movie name and the year of appearance, and possible the part if multi-part.
What strategy would you suggest to do this in an automatized fashion? Is it possible for XBMC to rename files in a scripted way?
XBMC knows in its library currently which file is which IMDB ID and what year it was released. Is there an existing script that would take for each movie in the DB (using remote MySQL here), take the file name and append the year before the multi-part/file extension and rename the original file?
Any chance of doing this using Couchpotato?
Thanks for caring
JC
