amc should put THE prefix to the end of the title, making it logically sortable

[filebot]

amc should put THE prefix to the end of the title, making it logically sortable

[rednoah]

No it wouldn't cause it messes with the name. The default format needs to be simple and scraper friendly.

[ssbarnea]

I guess your main concern is that once run this could break the re-scanning. How about applying this only for directories and not filenames, so we would be able to have: /Avengers (2010)/The Avengers (2010).

Is I am not wrong this could solve both problems: having good listing for TV (logical alphabetical), and still having standard filenames so additional executions would not mess the detection.

What do you think about this? Maybe you have another idea.

[rednoah]

The movie is called "The Avengers" and not "Avengers", nor "Avengers, The". In other words, "The Avengers" is a unique ID, "Avengers" is just a search query. In most cases it works with/without the "The" and that's because there's already special cases in the search engine to account for that specific case.

So FILENAME == UNIQUE IDENTIFIER (model) but display values / sort order (view) can surely be configured in the media center software.

My idea is let the user decide. You CAN pass in your own format.

[ssbarnea]

I agree with you that messing with the filename would create only problems.

Still, the Media Center client (TV in my case) is very limited, it will just display the directories so there is nothing to do on the client side.

So, what I want to do is to create a TV-friendly directory tree that would ease the browsing, probably using even hardlinks, allowing me to solve different browsing preferences: by year, by genre, and so on.

[rednoah]

You do know what I mean by saying You CAN pass in your own format right?

http://www.filebot.net/naming.html
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2#p51
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=211#p1549
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=215#p1561
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2#p4887

Suffice to say everything you want is nothing special at all, and supported perfectly fine out of the box, and does not require any code changes to script. You just need to check the docs and pass in the right parameters.