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TV Shows
When organizing TV Shows I have three different types of shows, which would need their individual namingscheme. These types are:
- Standard
- Anime
- Daily
Standard
Standard shows are what most people would watch on TV. This includes shows like Friends and miniseries like Band of Brothers. Most of my TV Shows fall in the Standard category, which i ripped from DVDs or Blu-Rays in order to save them. I've had some bad experiences with disks, where they stopped working after some years, so now i rip all my physical media as a backup.
Standard tv shows should be located in season folders and named for each episode. My folder structure looks something like this:
TV Shows
│
└───Series Title (year)
│ │
│ └───Season x
│ │ Series Title - S0xE0x - Episode Title - [Quality][MediaInfo AudioChannels AudioLanguages - SUB].ext
│ │ ...
[{Quality Title}][{MediaInfo Simple} {MediaInfo AudioChannels} {MediaInfo AudioLanguages} - SUB{MediaInfo SubtitleLanguages}] An example would be:
TV Shows
│
└───Friends (1991)
│ │
│ └───Season 1
│ │ Friends - S01E01 - The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate - [Bluray-1080p][x265 AAC 5.1 [EN]].mkv
│ │ ...
│
└───Game of Thrones (2011)
│ │
│ └───Season 1
│ │ Game of Thrones - S01E01 - Winter Is Coming - [Bluray-1080p][x265 AAC 5.1 [EN+FR+ES] - SUB[EN+FR+ES+DA].mkv
│ │ ...
│
When looking at the naming of each episode, it is important for me to be able to find the show and season, if i never lose my folder structure. A nice to have into is the source, where it mostly is Bluray or DVD. With Blurays i like to to also show the resolution. Depending on the show, I have multiple audios available and/or subtitles. In the case of Game of Thrones, the example shows English, French and Spanish audio and English, French, Spanish and Danish subtitles.
Anime
Anime is similar to Standard but still varies enough to not be handeled the same.
TV Shows
│
└───Series Title (year)
│ │
│ └───Season x
│ │ Series Title - S0xE0x (Absolute numbering) - Episode Title - [Quality][MediaInfo AudioChannels VideoDynamicRange VideoBitDepth].ext
│ │ ...
│
└───Fairy Tail (2009)
│ │
│ └───Season 1
│ │ Fairy Tail - S01E01 (001) - The Fairy Tail - [Bluray-1080p][x265 AAC[EN+JA] [EN] 5.1][10bit].mkv
│ │ ...
With anime i like to add the VideoDynamicRange (HDR/SDR) and VideoBitDepth (eg. 10 bit or 8 bit). Animes also often have an absolute number, which makes it easier to follow.
Daily
I have no daily shows, as i really don't follow late-night shows, but a setup would be similar to the previous two:
TV Shows
│
└───Series Title (year)
│ │
│ └───Season x
│ │ Series Title - YYYY-MM-DD - Episode Title.ext
│ │ ...
Instead of a season and episode number, we use a year-month-day numbering, as each episode airs daily.
Software
I wont go into details about ripping and converting the files, but instead just talk about the organizing. I used to have a bunch of bash scripts that used ffprobe and ffmpeg to determine the information for each file. This proved to be cumbersome and slow. Instead i decided to try tinyMediaManager, which works wonders. Once problem is that it is easiest to use through the GUI. After moving to a headless NAS, it was too slow to VNC to the server in order to organize my media. Instead i started using Sonarr purely for media management. Sonarr runs through Docker and and after ripping a disk, i add each file to my import folder and Sonarr can then be accessed through a browser for management.