Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by deadbunny on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:13AM
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The reason for the file naming convention is for metadata matching. All they are really doing behind the scenes is searching the movie name (and possibly year) from a metadata provider. The files you obtain online or rip yourself themselves rarely have any metadata in the file so the only remaining option is to parse the filename/directory structure.
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Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by crispyambulance on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:02AM
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Right, that's understandable, but many folks prefer to not rename files.
I would like to be able to just point to a file and tell Plex what that file is so it "knows" (puts it in it's database). If it can read/write metadata on the file itself, that would be great too.
Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by deadbunny on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:15AM
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> but many folks prefer to not rename files.
That's like arguing that they prefer an unsorted pile of thousands of books vs. a library/bookstore. I mean if that's how they want it then fine, but you don't get the useful features.
There are a multitude of metadata managers out there which don't require the same directory structure but they are a load more effort than automatic metadata matching and a lot more effort than simply organizing your media in the first place.