prtsmgr Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I am looking for opinions on the best way to name my movies. My collection is growing fast and I would like to know if there is a better way. I currently have Movies as my share name and am using this format: Movies/The Blind Side (2009)/The Blind Side (2009).mkv Would I be better off using this format: Movies/Blind Side, The (2009)/The Blind Side (2009).mkv Thanks, Mark Link to comment
ashaneil Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I am naming them the same way as you without any issues. Was there a specific issue you are/were worried about? Link to comment
BRiT Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I use MediaCenterMaster along with MediaBrowser, so if I opt for one or the other it's very easy to switch without having to do any manual work. Link to comment
prtsmgr Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 I am naming them the same way as you without any issues. Was there a specific issue you are/were worried about? No issues, everything is working great. I just wanted to see how other users name their files. Thanks Link to comment
Johnm Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I tend to use Gladiator.2000.Extended.Cut.1080.BluRay.DTS.x264 for my formatting. Movie name.Year (lots of movie remakes out there).(directors cut or theatrical if i have multiple rips).Resolution (1080p, 720p, 420 etc), Source format (Bluray,DVD,SD source ETC),audio type if applicable.(DTS, DD5.1, Etc.),Container type (MKV, ISO, DIVX, etc). I would recommend at the least Movie Name, Year, Format/Resolution It took a while for me to format older movies. Once you get into the grove, it is pretty easy and well worth the extra effort. especially once you have 1000's of movies. I do still have lots of movies With Brackets and parenthesis in the tile and some with spaces. I Did remove all "&" and replaced it with "and" because I was running into issues. Link to comment
Rajahal Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I think the movie title and the year are all that is really important for most scrapers. Link to comment
Johnm Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 As far as the the "THE" question. I leave the "the" in the front. My XBMC auto sorts the "the" to the back of the title for me. Good point on the Scraper Raj. I have very little scraping problems. with I due, it is usually because IMDB (scraper I use) tends not find the/ or have the movie listed. a few movies i did have to put Name, (i), date for the correct scraping. that, or i used a 3rd party plugin to manually overwrite the bad Scrape. Link to comment
gabbott Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 As long as movie title and year are how the filename begins, that is all that is really needed for most scrapers to be pretty accurate. You can add anything after that part (source, cut of film, codec, etc.) for your own benefit and won't affect the accuracy of the scraper. All my movies are named very similar to how Johnm does his. Link to comment
jamerson9 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I just let therenamer do the heavy lifting. After ripping type just enough for therenamer to find it, then let it rename and move it. Nice thing is therenamer uses the same meta db as the media server's scanner and data agents so once the media file is processed by therenamer the media server has no problems with scanning it in. I used to put in the filename the resolution and quality, but as the media servers now can read those data off the file I don't included them anymore. Link to comment
ibixat Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I use a program called Zeeb to rename them, it's an adobe air program, actually pretty slick. I rename movies as such. Superman II (2006).tt0839995.Richard Donner Cut.1080p <Title> (year).tt#######.<Special Identification tags>.<Resolution> tt####### is the IMDB reference number for the movie, special ID tags are director's cut, extended cut, unrated, theatrical, used to distinguish between versions, the rest is self explanatory. I find that if the XBMC imdb scraper is crapping out on the movie when searching for it all I do is erase all but the tag and it finds it every time. If I never viewed the files manually I'd even consider dropping name and year entirely and just using the imdb number. Link to comment
kizer Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I use Ember which is one of the apps you normally find around the XBMC website. Not only does it scrape all the normal stuff, but I have it set to do the following. As well you can tell I don't like periods. Before: good morning vietnam\good morning vietnam.avi After: Good.Morning.Vietnam.(1987)(720p)\Good.Morning.Vietnam.avi I always rename the folder simply because if I'm using my WD Live and I encounter two movies with the same name how do I know which is which? For example. Alice.in.Wonderland.(1951)(SDp) Alice.in.Wonderland.(2010)(720p) Link to comment
chickensoup Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I leave the filenames, NFOs, subs etc in tact and only rename the folder to the format of: "Movie Name (2012)" then use XBMC to lookup movies by folder name. You keep all the original downloaded content (such as covers etc) and can tell at a glance the source/quality etc. I've now also started separating my movies into Movies & Movies HD (HD is generally 720p+ or 2GB+ in size). Link to comment
intertan Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 here is what I have at the moment what I am still trying to figure out how to get it into xbmc, haven't spent much time on it. I like the full untouched rips/copies of movies dvd /unraid1/disk1/barcode/folders(audio_ts,ect) blu-ray /unraid1/disk2/barcode/movie.iso this is what I have current but it will possibly change once I get xbmc figured out Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I use "Movie Name (2012)/movie.mkv" or "Movie Name (2012)/video_TS/" (no quotes). XBMC and Plex like this format. I forget if video_TS is correct; it's the default DVD format. Link to comment
intertan Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 one thing I want to figure out is for example avatar regular edition extended edition 3d edition instead of having 3 movies show up it would be nice to select 1 then choose the version one other thing I would like to look into is if I select 3d my screen and projector will turn on and my tv turn off Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 one thing I want to figure out is for example avatar regular edition extended edition 3d edition instead of having 3 movies show up it would be nice to select 1 then choose the version one other thing I would like to look into is if I select 3d my screen and projector will turn on and my tv turn off You can make groups like this in XBMC but you have to manually edit some files. See the XBMC wiki. Hopefully the next version will add a GUI for this. Link to comment
intertan Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 well there goes this weekend. just got the tv show (sickbeard/sabnzbd) figured out. Link to comment
gabbott Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 one thing I want to figure out is for example avatar regular edition extended edition 3d edition instead of having 3 movies show up it would be nice to select 1 then choose the version one other thing I would like to look into is if I select 3d my screen and projector will turn on and my tv turn off You can make groups like this in XBMC but you have to manually edit some files. See the XBMC wiki. Hopefully the next version will add a GUI for this. Or you can install XWMM add-on and make movie sets by editing the movie db directly in a GUI now http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=60643 Link to comment
bigsing Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I just let couchpotato handle it. movies/The.Blind.Side.(2010)/The.Blind.Side.(2010).mkv I then run ember media manager to populate the nfo and tbn files that my boxee requires for proper identification. Link to comment
prtsmgr Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 I just let couchpotato handle it. movies/The.Blind.Side.(2010)/The.Blind.Side.(2010).mkv I then run ember media manager to populate the nfo and tbn files that my boxee requires for proper identification. I will look into Ember. Is this on unraid? I am also using Boxee Box. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk Link to comment
mbryanr Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I let SABnzbd and Couch Potato handle the renaming Here is the boxee forum link to ember http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=33055 and general nfo information http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=37197 I use the Boxee Box (x2) as well with unRAID. Link to comment
prtsmgr Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 I let cp do the renaming also, boxee sometimes displays the wrong thumbnail and/or can't identify the movie. I am on the boxee forums, will check out ember. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk Link to comment
bigsing Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I let cp do the renaming also, boxee sometimes displays the wrong thumbnail and/or can't identify the movie. I am on the boxee forums, will check out ember. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk Couchpotato can also create the nfo, but the options aren't very robust (won't pull down a poster art either). For now, i manually run ember on my desktop pc around once a week to update movies that are out there. Sickbeard on the other hand offers perfect nfo and tbn file generation for use on the boxee. Link to comment
sdballer Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 tower/Movies/The Matrix (1999) (1080)/The Matrix (1999) (1080).mkv Always works in XBMC for scrappers. Link to comment
Nasp Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 tower/media/movies/Matrix (2001)/matrix.vision.avi /Matrix (2001) (720P)/matrix.720p.dts.dix.mkv Link to comment
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