I’ve spent a few days now ripping dvds I own of some tv series, but the names of the individual files are all stupid (they’re almost all something like t0_01) so it’s completely unsorted in jellyfin. Is there an easy or automated way to fix this without clicking each one and manually renaming it?
Maybe not quite the right comm, but I’m feeling pretty stupid right now so I think it fits?
There’s no automated way to handle it, but you can probably speed it up a bit with a few tools.
Generally once you find the first episode of the disk, the rest will be named numerically after it, so maybe the special features or FBI warning or other misc things are the first track or two (starting at 0), or it could be the first episode, but once you find that one the rest will usually be named in order (t0_01, t0_02, etc).
In Windows, I used a tool called Bulk Rename Utility (https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/) when I did this in the past. Once you figure out how to use it, you can rename all the files at once in the folder in a format (show_s1_e1 or other supported format pretty quickly. It won’t be automatic, but will be way faster than renaming them by hand.
I usually use TheTVDb to do the naming, that way the shows can be found / indexed easily.
The only thing that you’ll have to keep in mind for show rips, is that many times the DVD order isn’t aired order, and they may not match the order on TheTVDb, or other source, so you may have to rename them in Aired order occasionally, or change the settings for Jellyfin: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-resolved-dvd-order-instead-of-aired-order
Bulk Rename is a great utility.
These days I use Advanced Renamer - it works similarly but also has the ability to rename by using text (CSV) file as the name source.
So of the files are already sequential, you get the new names in a CSV then import that into Advanced Renamer and it’ll do the rename.