If you are interested in getting anime into your media center, you have undoubtedly noticed that it is not quite as straightforward as regular television shows. The issues you will experience can be categorized into three categories; the first category is the naming scheme of distributed files, which differs from regular television shows. The second category is season notation, as seasons are either ignored or released with a different name (e.g. Little Busters being season one, and Little Busters Refrain being season two). The last category is the detection of specials, which is often released using a different name and notation.
There has been no shortage of community effort in creating an anime-specific agent, and the result can be seen in agents for database such as AniDb and MyAnimeList.net. While the effort is applaudable, these agents will always have inheritant issues from their parent database as neither database was designed for metadata purposes and both are lacking in that department (e.g. poor support for specials, no banners, no backgrounds, no episode description/image).
When you look at the entries for anime on TheTVDB, you will notice that most anime entries actually do contain the previously mentioned lacking information. It does contain backgrounds, posters, season descriptions/images and episode descriptions/images. The remaining problem when importing your collection is the file, season and special notation I mentioned earlier. There is an obvious solution; rename the files in your collection.
I hope that you are thinking, “Renaming files is way too much effort!”, because it is indeed too much effort. To solve the effort requirement, I have written an application named AnimeBatchRename which is to make renaming a breeze. This application is open-source and available for Windows-based operating systems and will change the usual file notation to a file notation that is comfortable for the TheTVDB agent (e.g. Shin Sekai Yori 01x01 [HorribleSubs]).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRynEjnhGwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWgZFg_BrbI
have you tried this? http://www.therenamer.com/
it supports absolute episode numbers and makes it very easy to rename files
I tried filebot, and therenamer but they both renamed some files that were for example [BakaSan]_Naruto_102V2 or something to that effect and turned them to S01e02? had to redo my whole collection because of this. from what I'm seeing this works better :)
edited - on another note how does this program deal with double episodes?
It won't start in Windows 8.1
Nothing happens when clicking the exe. Ive run the bat file and registered the reg file.
Have you tried HAMA? it uses anidb as main database, but link to thetvdb for artwork and posters, and banenrs...
Laso just added movie porters from thetvdb or imdb
Also supports Plex TV themes (and local tv themes loading)...
I just don't like titles like "cat planet cuties" in english, i prefer romaji, and tvdb doesn't support standalone oavs, and i have the split into seasons done on things like one piece...
Nice tutorial though :D
Would you be kind enough to create an additional library and use my agent on it, and let me know if this change your opinion a bit ?
just use filebot for renaming although im still having a hard time since plex cant detect code geass's special akito the exiled :(
"Code Geass Boukoku no Akito / ep01" or s01e01 up to e05, anidb page: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=7508
Any correctly named files+folder should be picked up by the scanner, otherwise your naming convention is wrong
hama would pick up the above title (or any anidb title in any language)
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