![]() I can't see how this is a strange request. It is known that since episodes come with all sorts of ancillary files, being able to do a many-to-one rename job seems like the most basic task imaginable. If you have another method that works better, by all means show me the light. You should just be able to select the files, locate the episode that they correspond to, and rename them. You shouldn't have to do a bunch of "preprocessing" to get it to work. If automatic matching fails to work, how else do you rename a set of files associated with a single title or episode? To me, this seems like it would be the most basic case of operation whenever automatic matching fails, like when the files are named so poorly. For this to be considered "not a common use case" seems almost absurd. In fact, I hope that you continue to improve upon this utterly necessary tool by stepping back from your creation, taking a good look at it, and maybe get some other outside opinions form people that you trust about how it works, and then maybe you can see that it's features and behavior are needlessly convoluted for no actual gain in capabilities or capacity.įor instance, the fact that a user cannot simply select a set of files and put them into a list and then manually select a title and/or episode from one of the many online databases which can then be used to rename them all according to the format already specified. Please understand that I don't mean that to be hurtful, insulting, or even discouraging in the face of all of your hard work. Still, I am 100% confident that I am not alone in saying that this tool is not intuitive to use. Please understand that this has nothing to do with my personal preferences or tastes, nor does it take away the amount of appreciation that I have for all of your support throughout what has turned out to be a far more challenging process than I ever expected it to be. I am sorry to say this, but I am fairly certain that my need for repeated support for basic needs indicates that there is in fact a real usability problem with FileBot only because of the effort that I take trying to figure things out on my own or search through your documentation. I get the sense that when I point these things out to you that you think I am being dense or lazy for not "getting" your design. In fact, just saying that things require preprocessing outside of your tool might indicate that there is a shortcoming, yes? Why should such a thing require any sort of "pre-pocessing"? We're just renaming files here according to a predefined pattern. I just want the tool to behave predictably and not require a tremendous amount of work just to get it to do its one job - a job, when you get down to it, is nothing more than a fancy regex parser. Also, I don't think I am asking for anything that's an "edge case" or anything unreasonable because it is specific to my personal needs. While I know that I have been "needy", I really think I have been restrained and reasonable with my requests to you, provided you with as much detail as I possibly can, and spared you from the snarky comments that might reveal my frustration, especially considering this process of just learning how to use this $20 tool has taken about a month and I still am not there yet. I genuinely have been trying my best to learn how to do it in accordance to your design, as much as I can understand it. ![]() ![]() but someone might, right?)Īfter that last reply, I can see that I am touching on a nerve with you and I don't mean to make you annoyed with me insofar that you think that I want a "personal button" to do it "my way". Is there an easy way to manually specific the language so they are renamed appropriately? (This is not a big deal- honestly I probably don't need the Polish subtitles. there are subtitles in other languages and it is possible that your automatic matching won't work for them. This is easy to do, right? I am not figuring out what sort of fu this requires though. The files would effectively be moved and renamed according to my predefined format (which is ). I would love to load a set of files which represent all of the media and supporting files for a particular episode, and then select a single episode from the "Episodes" browser and then apply it to all of the files that I have sitting in "Rename". I can't seem to find a clear way to do that. What I need to to be able to do is pick a specific episode from a series which I want one or more files renamed to match. Hi! I need go through my media one at a time now because none of the episode matching that happens automatically seems to be working.
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