Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Organize Your TV Shows And Movies With FileBot

FileBot is an open source, cross-platform batch file renaming and organization tool for your movies, TV shows and music which comes with some interesting features such as: automatic subtitles download, fetching episode information via TheTVDB, TVRage and more.

FileBot features:
  • supports fetching episode information from TheTVDB, AniDB, TVRage or Serienjunkies;
  • supports movie identification and renaming via TheMovieDB, OpenSubtitles or IMDb;
  • can automatically download subtitles from OpenSubtitles;
  • integrated subtitle viewer for srt, ass and sub files;
  • Series / Anime / Movie name auto-detection;
  • highly customizable episode naming scheme;
  • command line / scripting interface, useful for automating various tasks;
  • easily create and verify sfv, md5 and sha1 files;
  • compare two or more directory trees;
  • identify and rename music using AcoustID audio-fingerprints and MusicBrainz info;
  • extract files from zip, multi-volume rar and 7zip archives as well as ISO images;
  • more!

The application is very easy to use: to rename your movies or TV shows, drag and drop the files onto the "Rename" pane, then click "Match" and select the service to use for matching the movie / TV shows:

FileBot tv shows renamer organizer

You can change the movie / episode renaming format by clicking "Edit format" (from the "Matching" menu):

FileBot tv shows renamer organizer

To automatically download subtitles for your movies / TV shows, select "Subtitles" in FileBot (on the left), then select the subtitle language from the drop-down and then either click the blue icon in the top right and select your movies / episodes or simply drag and drop the files onto this icon and FileBot will try to find subtitles for your files:

FileBot tv shows renamer organizer

FileBot tv shows renamer organizer

It's important that you firstly select the subtitle language, then select the files you want to download the subtitles for, or else it won't work!

Note: in my test, the download button wasn't displayed in the "Download Subtitles" dialog - to fix this, I had to increase the window width.

You can also organize your movies and TV shows from the command line / scripting interface. 

For example, +Antoni Norman has created a simple Nemo / Nautilus script that's included by default with Pinguy OS 14.04, which automatically renames your TV shows to a format like this: "The Walking Dead 4x15 Us.mkv", places it in a folder like "TV Shows/The Walking Dead/Season 4/" and automatically downloads subtitles from OpenSubtitles using the video hash. If the TV show or movie is in a zip file, the script automatically extracts it and deletes the zip. Also, after organizing the movies / TV shows, the script triggers XBMC or Plex to rescan the directories.

Here's a video demonstration of this script, recorded by Antoni in Pinguy OS 14.04 (currently in alpha):


(direct video link)


To download the script and install it for Nautilus, use the commands below:

- Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10:
mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
wget http://www.pinguyos.com/files/nemo-scripts/Video-Organizer -O ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Video-Organizer
chmod +x ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Video-Organizer
- Ubuntu 13.10 and newer:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts
wget http://www.pinguyos.com/files/nemo-scripts/Video-Organizer -O ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Video-Organizer
chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Video-Organizer

To download and install the script for Nemo file manager, use the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/nemo-scripts
wget http://www.pinguyos.com/files/nemo-scripts/Video-Organizer -O ~/.gnome2/nemo-scripts/Video-Organizer
chmod +x ~/.gnome2/nemo-scripts/Video-Organizer

Obviously, to be able to use the script, you'll also need FileBot (see below).


Download FileBot


FileBot is available in the Ubuntu Software Center as a paid application. Buy it if you want to support its developer, by clicking the button below (or search for "Filebot" in Ubuntu Software Center):

Available for Ubuntu


If you don't want to pay for the application, you can download Ubuntu / Debian deb files from the FileBot homepage, along with Windows and Mac OS X binaries, a jar executable (FileBot is a Java app), etc.:
Important: if you've installed FileBot by using the deb provided on its official website, the application may fail to start. This should fix it:
sudo rm -r ~/.filebot
You can also grab the latest FileBot beta release, which doesn't have this issue.

thanks to +Antoni Norman for the tip!
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