tvrename.com

Hi,

One of the features i would like to see is automated Finding and Organising. I use some scripts to autodownload my tvshows. After that i use "finding and organising" to copy the files to the proper directory's. However the finding and organising is always an manual step, i would love to see this automated.

I can think of 2 solutions:
* Intergrate an schedule system that enables you to run the finding and organising task periodically.
* intergrate an console argument to tvrename.exe, so that it runs the finding and organising; without starting the GUI. eg. tvrename.exe /findandorganise /move

The latter solution seems the most clean and elegant to implement, because you can use the windows inbuilt scheduler to run the task when your not logged on.

I hope you'll find my request usefull and hopefully it will end on your todo list someday

Keep up the good work

Having it completely automatic has been on my to-do list for a while. I could put option in the preferences, so if you didn't trust it, you wouldn't have to turn it on. Since someone else has asked for it, I'll bump it up my priority list a bit.

Command-line options are interesting.. I hadn't thought of those. I'll add it to my to-do list, too. All they'd have to do is simulate hitting various buttons in the UI (while keeping the UI hidden).

It's interesting indeed because it can open up a lot of new posibillty's. Not only will it give access to periodically execution but it will also be possible to run tvrename from external applications, like sabNZBd. That would rock

Also to compliment the automated "finding and organising" feature i have another suggestion. While there is an option to leave the source file, there also could be an option to remove the directory where the file resides. Most usenet downloaders create directory's in the download folder with the video files in them, it's a pain to check those and remove them by hand.

Thanks

Heh.. Removing left-behind empty folders was added to my list about a week ago You could also optionally define "empty" as "having just a .NFO file left behind".

On that, this might be a biggy though, maybe AUTOMATIC de-compression. TVRename finds the folder where the 20 .rar's are, extracts the file, moves it, renames it, gets rid of rar's and the folder

sstteevvee wrote:Heh.. Removing left-behind empty folders was added to my list about a week ago You could also optionally define "empty" as "having just a .NFO file left behind".

Hehe, very cool Can't wait to see it in the release.

primüs wrote:On that, this might be a biggy though, maybe AUTOMATIC de-compression. TVRename finds the folder where the 20 .rar's are, extracts the file, moves it, renames it, gets rid of rar's and the folder

Some downloading program do this on the fly. Like sabnzbd, that unrar's your files automaticlly and will remove the rar files after decompressing. Utorrent has similar functionality, but you'll have to use it with external programs. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=218465

I would love to see this functionality. This is actually the reason I downloaded this software, and I was very dissapointed to see this wasn't possible (yet).

One tip: I was previously using Natbur Tv renamer. This software is great at this task, maybe you could take a look at that? The only problem I had with that software (and the reason I tried TVRename) is that it doesn't unlock the file before copying. So if the torrent software is still using it (for uploading), the file copy fails.

I hope this feature will be implemented soon!

If I was to implement looking inside archives, what formats are the most common? ZIP and RAR? Any others?

Regarding unlocking before copying... If the torrent is still being seeded by (say) uTorrent, TVRename will be able to copy it, but it won't be able to move it. Forcibly unlocking the file that another program is using is bad manners, so I don't really want to do that! I have a clever trick I'm working on to have TVRename modify the .torrent file, before it gets passed to uTorrent, so that the download-to location is correct right from the start - eliminating any need for a copy/move/rename step.

sstteevvee wrote:I have a clever trick I'm working on to have TVRename modify the .torrent file, before it gets passed to uTorrent, so that the download-to location is correct right from the start - eliminating any need for a copy/move/rename step.

Hmmmm Tasty

I'm glad I'm not the only one realizing that an automated "finding and organizing" would be useful. I also like to see the cmdline approach so that i could task schedule it. This would save much manual clicking every day or 2.

I use the built in rss downloader in utorrent. And i have it delete the torrent file when adding. not sure if that'll put a kink in your idea. But i think just the automated clicking of the buttons is good enough for now.