(2) Very often the show name is abbreviated, as mentioned. Example:ĪCDC_It’s_A_Long_Way_To_The_Top_Bandstand_76_(digital_rebroadcast).mpeg In some other cases, the year numerals are not the last characters before the file extension. In some cases, the filename may already have a four digit year, in which case just the replacing of the underscore with a “ - “ would be required. This would result in the first of the files above having the new name:Ĭale_John_01_Fear_is_a_Man’s_Best_Friend_Crystal_Palace_Park - 1975.mpegĪ couple of caveats. If the the leading digit is less than 2, prepend “ - 20”. Look for two digit numerals towards the end of a filename string and where the first of the digits is 2 or greater, prepend “ - 19”. The logic, as best as I can express it, would be something like this. It seems to make sense to me to work from back to front on the filenames, given how they are structured. What I’d like to do is automate the following as much as possible (realizing that a certain amount of manual intervention is inevitable, and not all of this may be possible). The convention I’d ideally like to adopt for filenames going forward is this:Ġ1 - John Cale - Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend - Crystal Palace Park - 1975.mpg And where there is a sequence number to preserve the sort or playback order, those double-digit numbers come after the artist name. And while the folder name has the full show name and full date, I very often abbreviated both in the filename itself to shorten its length. So you can see that while my folder names have spaces in them, my filenames do not, using underscores instead. >Cale_John_Dying_On_The_Vine_OGWT_85.mpeg >Cale_John_02_Buffalo_Ballet_Crystal_Palace_Park_75.mpeg >Cale_John_01_Fear_is_a_Man's_Best_Friend_Crystal_Palace_Park_75.mpeg Here’s how my folder system is structured and files currently named: (I actually run a site that provides music video metadata - via an API, and plan on building an agent for Plex, but that’s another story). In the earlier days of collecting, I adopted a naming convention that emphasized short filenames and a limited character set so that my videos would work with a serial-controlled computerized playback system that would choke on funky characters and long strings.Īlmost 15 years later, my Windows NT-based Video Jukebox is long gone, replaced by the more modern media centre software Plex, and I want to likewise upgrade my filenames so they are more intelligible, searchable, and matchable to metadata providers. I have a very large library of music videos, roughly 30,000-35,000 of them.
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