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?

  • insight06@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 days ago

    Some tricks I’ve used in the past when huge sets of episodes are scrambled or misnamed and you need to start from square one matching them:

    • Check if the files have any embedded metadata with the episode name or number using a tool like MediaInfo
    • If the episodes have different runtimes, you can try to match them to runtimes listed on a well-labeled list of episodes, like on Wikipedia or in a torrent.
    • Download a tool to auto-generate subtitles from the audio track. Probably won’t be accurate, but should give you enough of the dialogue to now search online and see what episode it is.
    • If the show has a splash screen with the episode name at a fixed time, like many kids shows, you can auto-generate thumbnails at that time for all episodes
    • Last resort: Manually watch enough of each episode to match it to the right episode synopsis on e.g. wikipedia and then label it appropriately
    • Pirate option: Pretend you ripped it yourself and download a properly-curated set