Sonarr version (exact version): 2.0.0.5085 Mono version: Mono JIT compiler version 5.4.1.6 OS: ubuntu xenial with S6 overlay Description of issue:
I’m a new Sonarr users and I’ve just manually downloaded a Christmas special. I have manually changed the Season/Episode tag in the file name and now I’d like Sonarr to take care of renaming the rest of the file for me. When I go to the “Specials” season for the show and hover over the “rename” icon the tool tip says “Preview rename for season 0”. When I click on it, it shows that it’s going to change everything from “Season 00/” to “Specials/”. I’d like it to leave everything in the “Season 00” folder as that’s how I’ve always organized my shows and that’s how SickBeard always did it.
I’ve looked through the settings, but I don’t see anything obvious in the naming section that will force it to leave everything as “Season 00” instead of changing it to “Specials”. What have I missed?
I know I’ve requested this as a feature as well. Since TVDB and others use Season 00, rather than specials for TV shows, it seems it would be more consistent to have it as an option (Season 00 or Specials).
I don’t always use folders for my shows. So this would still allow that flexibility, and be more consist ant with TVDB/others
@markus101 - Thanks for your reply. As mentioned, I’m new to Sonarr…
In attempting to complete step 1, I’ve added season:00/ to the places where it appeared that it would be appropriate, but it’s giving me an error when I try to save it:
Would you please be more explicit for the n00bs in the thread?
Also, for step 2, A) I don’t see where to do this, and B) does this mean that Sonarr will drop all episodes in one folder and not organize them by season?
If my understanding for B) is correct, that really makes me shudder, and I’m not even all that OCD! I can’t imagine 12 seasons of the new Doctor Who with 150+ specials all dumped into one folder, then trying to figure out which specials I’m still missing! (Or the 26 seasons of the old Who.)
150 Doctor Who Specials is not that hard to maintain.
Let Sonarr do the work for you!
When you go to the Doctor Who page, scroll down to the Specials and all 154 are listed there and all the ones you have will be shown with SDTV or BluRay or HDTV etc bubbles and the ones you are missing are clearly labelled with an exclamation mark/triangle icon. Easy peasy! Quck count and I have about 42 and missing the rest!
Toggle the “Season Monitored Status” for the Specials and again … let Sonarr do the work for you.
Cheers
basically you include the season folder name in the actual episode format itself, then you disable season folders for the show so it never uses a “Specials” folder (or any season folder)
eg; season {season:00}/{series.cleantitle}.s{season:00}e{episode:00}.{quality.title}.{mediainfo.simple}
the downside is that you now have to go and turn off season folders for every single show or youll get nested season folders, and realistically no one is going to do this unless they have a very few number of shows
the simplest method to fix it would be to abide by what the user enters into the season folder format and not override it because someone thinks “Specials” is a good idea
to do that they should create a new rename tag, eg we already have {Season:xx} (which should always stay numeric) they could add {Season Special:xx} for people that want to use “Specials” for season 0
ie, put it back in the hands of the users as hardcoding stuff never works out well
@rhom - thanks for that - your explanation actually made sense.
I’ll probably just let it rename all the episodes and move them to the “Specials” folder, then just rename “Specials” back to “Season 00” since I don’t download specials very often.
I’ve been using SickBeard, CouchPotato and Headphones for quite a while and, while they work (most of the time), they haven’t been getting much development love of late. The *arrs (Son, Rad, Lid) seem to be in active development, so there’s hope that little things like this will be adjusted and that the major things will be taken care of quickly. It’s taking time to get used to different layouts and ways of doing things, but this does seem to be the way forward now.
the downside is that you now have to go and turn off season folders for every single show or you’ll get nested season folders, and realistically no one is going to do this unless they have a very few number of shows
Main page → Series Editor. You can modify that flag for all series at once. You can do that in like 15 seconds for hundreds of shows.
FYI: The actual pattern should be Season {season:00}/{Series Title} S{season:00}E{episode:00} {Episode Title} (based on the screenshot you posted earlier.)
The Season is just static text, and the {season:00} token is the number.
