Selects the folder that contains all the video and subtitle files that you want to tidy up
This is the folder where all files will go. Note that this should be the folder where you want to keep your TV Shows. Folders for each Show/Season can be created auto-magically using the options described below
When selected, it will create a folder named after the TV Show name under the destination folder
Create a folder for the TV Show's season. The location of this folder depends on the “Create folder for Show” option. If you have chosen to create a folder for the TV Show then the Season folder will be created under each Show's folder. If option “Create folder for Show” is left unchecked then each season folder will be created under the destination folder.
This option indicates whether you want to copy or move the files from their original location.
A few notes on moving files, if source and destination folder are not on the same file system then moving operation is as slow as copying since data are actually copied and then the source files get deleted.
When you choose to create MKV files the Move/Copy option has no effect
This is where you choose how episodes are going to be renamed. As you can see there is a specific syntax that allows you to place elements of an episode (season, episode, episode title etc) wherever you want.
Elements are as follow:
|
Element |
Description |
|---|---|
|
{TVShow} |
Name of the TV Show |
|
{SS} |
Two digit season number |
|
{S} |
Single digit season number |
|
{EE} |
Two digit episode number |
|
{E} |
Single digit episode number |
|
{EpisodeName} |
Episode name |
Use this options to extract the tv show name from the subtitle filename
Use this options to extract the episode name from the subtitle filename
Preview changes button scans all the files in the source folder and displays a list of what is to be done.
For example:
appartment.s01e09.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv
->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.HDTV.FQM.mkv
--Appartment M.D. - 1x09 - Life Is Priceless.HDTV.FQM.gr.srt
---->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.HDTV.FQM.gr.srt
--Appartment M.D. - 1x09 - Life Is Priceless.HDTV.CTU.en.srt
---->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.HDTV.FQM.en.srt
rows that have “->” in front of the file name show what the destination file name will be.
As you can see there is the name of the release group on each file name (CTU, FQM etc)
TVShowTidy has an option to remove this words from the filenames. Simply select the word that you do not want and then “right click” on the selection and select “Add word to ignore list”.
Hit preview again to see the result
appartment.s01e09.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv
->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.mkv
--Appartment M.D. - 1x09 - Life Is Priceless.HDTV.CTU.en.srt
---->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.en.srt
--Appartment M.D. - 1x09 - Life Is Priceless.HDTV.FQM.gr.srt
---->Appartment M.D. S01E09 Life Is Priceless.gr.srt
Keep in mind that this filter is applied only to the portion of the file name after the season/episode number.
Hit that button to start the tidy process
This will create MKV files instead of Copying/Moving the source files.
It will add all the subtitle files in the MKV file and name each track after the language name as detected on the subtitle filename.
Each subtitle track name is named using the locale of the subtitle.
'en': English
'fr': Frances
'el': Ελληνικά
This is where you edit the episode and folder naming patterns.
In addition you can edit the list of the “Ignore Words”
Set the path where “mkvmerge” executable is located.
If “mkvmerge” is in your system or user path (most linux users will have that) then there is no need to alter this option.
Windows users will need to point it to the directory where MKVToolnix is installed.
Levenshtein distance computes the difference of two Strings ("fuzz" and "buzz" have a distance of 1).
A modified algorithm that computes Levenshtein distance is used to match TV Show name among the selected files. This algorithm removes spaces dots and dashes from the TV Show name and then calculates it's distance.
That way "Appartment" and "Appartment M.D." have a distance of only 2 as "Appartment M.D." becomes "AppartmentMD".