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?
Are they all spitting out the same type of naming convention. Like is t0_05 season 1 episode 6 or is it all just random.
It’s random, some of them count up, some of them go like a0_01 b01_01 etc, and some say the disc number. There’s no consistency lol
No such luck then.
Maybe you can integrate MakeMKV with Sonar/Radar if you have a lot of them. Manually set the output to something like Friends s01e01 and output to a location sonar/radar are looking, to have them pick up and dump the output your looking for?
I’ve often found a weird pattern with the file names where they’ll be sequential except the first episode from the disk will be the last sequential file name.
So I’ll manually check, then rename the last file so its sequentially first.
Then I’ll use Advanced Renamer and a CSV of the episode titles to make it rename all the files properly like:
S01E01 ‘episode title’
Advanced Renamer can add the S01E01 and increment the episode number as it does the rename.
It sometimes takes a couple passes to get it the way I want it.
Just earlier I was renaming and had the same problem as you - once I figured out the pattern I just renamed the appropriate file in each season folder, then renamed all the files with their season, episode number and episode title using Advanced Renamer.
When I rip a dvd I have all episodes from one season go into a Season X folder - it makes managing them easier and Jellyfin wants season folders anyway.