But there are a LOT of my moves (maybe several hundred) that so not have Genres set in theMovieDB (I know, I checked manually) so all get dumped into a Genre of their own name. So for example (made up example):
Bob Goes Home Tonight (2002)
turns into:
/mount/media/Movies/Bob Goes Home Tonight (2002)/Bob Goes Home Tonight (2002).mkv
So I manually moved all of them to a NoGenre folder, but it would be nice if I could figure out how to do that with the script. I did try the {any{genre}{‘NoGenre’}} but could not make it work correctly!
I placed filebot in /usr/local/bin/filebot.d to make upgrading by hand and backing up easier.
The .desktop file is located and looks like
[chuck@lizum /usr.125]$ cd local/share/applications
[chuck@lizum applications.126]$ cat filebot.desktop
# Custom Filebot Launcher: Gnome 3.8 and above
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Desktop Entry]
Name=FileBot
GenericName=FileBot
Comment=Media file information retriever and renamer
Exec=filebot
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=/usr/local/bin/filebot.d/filebot.logo.png
Categories=Multimedia;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.21
[chuck@lizum applications.127]$
A slight embellishment allows me some options of my choosing without interfering with desktop launch.
These can be augmented to suit your needs. Yes, it’s dated. I’ve not used the command line mode in a long time (no use of -amc)
The default is to launch filebot in graphical mode.
[chuck@lizum applications.127]$ cat /usr/local/bin/filebot
#!/bin/tcsh
# if option 1 = '-manual' then override defaults
if ("x$1" == "x-manual") then
set dir=`pwd`
shift
cd /usr/local/bin/filebot.d
./filebot.sh $*
endif
if ("x$1" == "x-movie") then
set dir=`pwd`
cd /usr/local/bin/filebot.d
shift
./filebot.sh -rename --db TheMovieDB --format '/media/movies/{n} ({y})' "${dir}/$*"
endif
if ("x$1" == "x-tv") then
set dir=`pwd`
cd /usr/local/bin/filebot.d
shift
./filebot.sh -rename --db TheTVDB --format '/media/tv/{n}/s {s}/{n}.{s00e00}.{t}' "${dir}/$*"
endif
if ("x$1" == "x") then
cd /usr/local/bin/filebot.d
./filebot.sh
endif
[chuck@lizum applications.128]$
@ChuckPa said:
sometimes chrome doesn’t exit fully… and the forum might just be 8-} again
Shut chrome down, wait 30 sec, from a shell pkill chrome (Die With A Vengeance) …then start
Actually shut down, rebooted and still problem exists. The entire menu is visible but clicking on anything does nothing at all. Actually tried Firefox, Chrome and Safari - same result in all three browsers!
Weird - I was going to post a picture of my (now very large) Movie Libraries list in plex!
That’s the forum then. It seems to be going on strike, regionally, since just before the holidays. They (forum provider) fixes it and two days later… it’s stupid again.
It’s been suggested to try and ‘drag & drop’ to add attachments. It will help to see where the ‘javascript’ error is. grumbles at the stupid thing that’s worse than 3 day old coffee
Thank you both for all of your help on this issue. Last night I completed the upgrade of the primary hard drive in my Plex system (aptly named Cinaplex) from spinning media to the new Samsung 960 Pro NVMe M.2 Drive (hdparm shows 3+GB/s). This should speed things up just a little bit. I completely reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and PMS from scratch and reconfigured Plex and got it back up and running and happy.
I moved my spinning media to my rsync backup drive. I also took your suggestions and broke my ~4500 movies into Genere based Libraries utilizing filebot, so now instead of a single “Movie” library I have 20 different Movie Libraries. I think I will narrow those down a little bit over time depending on what is in each Library, but it is a good place to start for right now.
I routinely have 10 to 12 transcoding sessions going on so next time that happens I will have to take a look at everything again and see how it is working.
But again, I really wanted to thank you guys for being patient with me and helping with all of your great ideas and suggestions. Plex is awesome, but the community around it is what really makes it shine!
As a side note, this is ultimately the post-processing script that I came up with for dealing with my movies. I tried and tried but I was unable to get the one I wanted to work so I ended up having to dump it down to this:
Then I just added it to my cron to run every 5 minutes. If the directory is empty, nothing happens, if it is not, then it processes what is there with filebot and notifies Plex.
