#Filebot movie format movie folder how to
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End result was each file was renamed to my desired naming scheme. It ran this only on the movie files which ended up with network error with TheRenamer and was happy to see that it worked interactively in that it presents its guesses to the user for each file it processes, so that one can choose the right movie title. This tool turned out to be a lot nicely designed than the previous, was cross-platform and worked well without surprises.

It obviously uses network for the guesswork and for some odd reason a lot of files ended up with a !!!NETWORK ERROR!!! I had to hunt for other options. I was able to use this tool as a filter before passing the movies to Kodi for 70% of the collection. The end result after the rename was a movie file correctly renamed and put into its individual directory. Good part about this tool is that it could guess the titles of movies from a long list of movie files with messy filenames and present the results together for you to verify and rename. Otherwise, it could have been pretty difficult to make this Windows-only tool work for my use case owing to its funky, non-intuitive interface.

#Filebot movie format movie folder how to

I stumbled upon this tool through some online forum which also (thankfully) had a link to a guide on how to rename movies. My first requirement was to put each movie file(s) among the mess into their individual folders with the correct year. The problem with media organizers like Kodi - they need clean input (like the naming scheme I mentioned above), that’s why I needed other tools. This was not needed in the stable Kodi 14.2 “Helix” release which fetches IMDb ratings by default. With the Kodi 15.0 “Isengard” RC1 dev release that I tried this time, one peculiar setting that I had to change was to switch to IMDb ratings from TMDb ratings.A recommended non-default setting is System->Settings->Video->File lists->Combine split video items which prevents Kodi from showing multiple entries for the same movie when it exists as multiple part files on your filesystem.Of course, this also allows me to directly look up some info about the movie from its directory or run bash scripts on them without firing up Kodi.

#Filebot movie format movie folder update

I particularly find this useful when I have moved some movies to another location and Kodi can read this exported metadata during an update (instead of fetching it from the Internet, which is slower).

Export video library option under the same section allows you to export the metadata fetched for each movie into their own directory in the form of a.

Use System->Settings->Video->Library->Clean library… to remove stale entries (deleted/moved movies) from the database.

It will fetch a lot of metadata about each movie from sites like TMDb (The Movie Database) and and create an internal database. Basically, you point it to a directory containing all your movies organized into their individual directories having naming scheme such as “The Great Dictator (1940)”, ie, full name of the movie with the year of release in parentheses and hit the Update library option. I have been using XBMC/Kodi for about 4 years now. This one probably needs no introduction if you are already familiar with XBMC (its old name) - one of the most popular and feature-rich media center around (also open source & cross-platform). I spent couple of hours yesterday doing the same for my brother’s collection here are some tools that I found useful: Kodi

If you are like me who likes their media collection well organized, you might have found it difficult to sift through a huge but unorganized collection of movies that you retrieve from a friend’s external hard disk.