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Brainy
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 Posted - 01 Jan 2009 : 12:58:41
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Recently I have been using this function a lot and I have the following suggestions:
- Change the default selection from "Try to rename all files of all movies" to "Try to rename all files of selected movies in main window"
I am adding/editing one movie at a time and while this setting is sticky between lookups it's not when you restart EMM so one , to quick, mouseclick causes all files of all movies to be renamed loosing info contained in the filename for example and the problem in point 2
- Check the rename template for valid content before using it.
I use <ORIGINALTITLE>(<YEAR>)and in the case above (renaming not yet edited movies)the original title is empty resulting in filenames like ().avi
Could you also make the template selection editable (meaning adding different templates) and make the last selection sticky (preferably even surviving restarts)
It also would be nice if other files with the same name would be renamed like subtitle files.
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 02 Jan 2009 : 14:17:34
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Thanks for listening!
Two more things while you are in there:
Sometimes the renaming function starts putting spaces before the .extension
moviename (year).avi becomes moviename (year)(space).avi
I believe this happens after renaming a movie consisting of more then one file.
And one more request. While the naming convention for multipart movies is logical (1-2) etc it is not what other programs expect or accept. For instance xbmc automatically groups cd1 cd2 etc files together, it does however not group (1-2) (2-2) files. Could you maybe also add a choosable template for the numbering? |
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Alessio Viti
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 11 Jan 2009 : 23:32:03
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Thanks for the modifications
But... (There always is one :-))
Something went wrong with the selection of the files to rename.
Now under the general settings you have the choice between "Try to rename all files of selected movies in main window" and "Try to rename all files of selected Movies in main window"
Except for the capital in Movies they seem to be the same and do the same :-)
In other words: It is not possible anymore to rename just the one movie? |
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 12 Jan 2009 : 16:48:23
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Hi,
I just double checked and I really can only choose between two identical options.
Yes, I use english.ini. To be sure I switched to an other language and back to english again. It didn't help. |
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 12 Jan 2009 : 21:28:36
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Strange indeed, mine looks like this:
I updated, as always, using XMM liveupdate and am running 6.7.3.0
Because of your screenshot I now also see I have no option to rename the subtitle files! |
Edited by - Brainy on 12 Jan 2009 21:30:35 |
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 13 Jan 2009 : 20:17:00
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Shoot, I thought I had found the problem. My english.ini file (which is in my documents b.t.w.) was dated 2-1-2009 so it was from before the modification. I updated to 6.7.4.0. and now the ini file is from 11-1-2009 but it still does not fix the problem.
I took a look inside the ine file and sure enough even in here the problem exists.
Lines 1350 and 1351 are identical except for the capital in "Movies".
Sorry for even suggesting :-) but could it be you are packaging the wrong ini file version in the updates??
If not, I am really at a loss because the ini file is updated (at least the date changes...) I also tried "restore default configuration" without any luck. |
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Alessio Viti
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Brainy
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Posted - 14 Jan 2009 : 11:49:26
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| Ahhh! Glad you found it. |
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JetPilt
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Ireland
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Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 16:42:10
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Hi Alessio
I have a new suggestion for the rename functionality -
it would also be very nice if it would also rename the folder/directory containing the movie file(s) to be the same name as the movie [eg: MovieTitle (Year)] - same options as for the file renaming functionality.
Do you think you could implement that?
Thanks for the best software ever! |
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Brainy
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Posted - 22 Feb 2009 : 15:56:40
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I found a little problem.
When I use the renamer function to rename a selection of files with similar but different movies they also get renamed!
For example I have The Maltese Falcon (1931).avi and The Maltese Falcon (1941).mkv. When I use this function both get renamed to The Maltese Falcon (1941)
I guess renaming "other" files like subtitles etc does not check for other movie files? But Since there is a real difference in the name this should not be happening at all I guess. |
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Rename movie files function
