Plex + filebot: adding info to the filename, is it possibile?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I recently moved to filebot. It would be very useful to me adding some information to the file name, such as codec, resolution, bitrate.
I use the following format:

E:/{plex.derive{" [$vf, $kbps, $vc, $ac]"}}

which gives, for example,

E:\Movies\Some Like It Hot (1959)\Some Like It Hot (1959) [360p, 850 kbps, DivX, MP3].avi

and Plex correctly recognize the movie. Great.

The problem arise dealing with movies splitted:

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) CD1 [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3].avi

Plex can’t recognize this properly. I know the guidelines and it should be named

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - cd1.avi

Here are my questions:
1_ why filebot rename uncorrectly with the “CD1”, capital and without the “-”?
2_ the Plex scraping is more robust than it claims to be (see my first example). Is it possible somehow to keep my renaming format and bypass the splitted movie issue?

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https://www.filebot.net/forums/

You could ask over there. I do know if you don’t have the ‘-’ in your FB tags it won’t go in the file name and the same is probably true for ‘cd1’ as well. I assume. I’ve not had to fiddle with that function.

Yea.

Dump the AVI files into MKVToolNix and hope you can join 'em together - to make one:

I don’t know if that will work with your AVI files - so Dump the AVI files and get one of anything else.

At least you have a few options.

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You could also change that to
E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3]-cd1.avi

But of course that’d require the file for cd 2 to use the exact same file name.

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Would FB recognize crudely named 2 parters and deal with them appropriately?

I wonder?

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good try but it does not work.
Neither

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd1.avi

@JuiceWSA I would like not the join the splited movies manually
 At most rename them


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Does not work, how?
What is the file name of disc 2?

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Plex does not recognize them as a single movie.

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd1.avi
E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd2.avi

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E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd1.avi

too many hyphens - I guess


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Don’t think so.
Remove the spaces around the second hyphen.

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My first try. It does not work.
Neither

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3]-cd1.avi
E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3]-cd2.avi

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Is this a real “movies” library or an “Other Videos”-type?

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Real movies

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And E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - cd1.avi isn’t working either?

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Hey, sorry. I get it. CD1 and CD2 have different bitrate actually, so the name was not the same!

Adding the bitrate info is not a good idea maybe


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Not for two-parters anyway.

What file names are working now?

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I’ve just “fix” the name having the same bitrate.
When I wrote this before I was actually lying :smiley:

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3]-cd1.avi
E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3]-cd2.avi

it works as well as

E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd1.avi
E:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) - [360p, 1076 kbps, XviD, MP3] - cd2.avi

A question for you: which FB “edit format” do you use? I could to spend days thinking to the best option and change my mind multiple times. Maybe you already tought aboyt that


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As soon as you install mediainfo you’ll never need those technical details in the file name anymore, IMHO.

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Ok but maybe I want to “search by codec” in order to renew part of my library


I am thinking to add the director name. Maybe someone ask me to give him the Woody Allen movies


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That’s what I thought until I added 1400+ (and counting) HEVC replacements - then had to fix 1300+ of them - and boy was I glad they were clearly marked - so I could Delete them in Bulk.

Thank you Filebot and Calgon
 take me away


:wink:

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By the way, this is my “edit format” (atm)

E:/Film/{ny}/{n}{info.OriginalName =~ n ? ‘’ : " - $info.OriginalName"}{" ($director, $y)“}{” [$vf, “}{pn =~ 1 ? “$mbps, " : ‘’}{”$vc, $ac]”}{" - cd$pi"}

which seems to correctly handle both the non-english movies (italian in my case) and the splitted ones (cd1, cd2).