recently ive started using the johnny decimal system which has helped with the chaos of my folders/files, and for me it has actually worked, everything is sorted in a very organized and meaningful way according to my own subjectivity. except for media. i tried using calibre for books, picard for music, i dont know what i could use for films/tv shows, but everything requires a lot of manual work, i have to verify the metadata is correct, or in some cases that the release is the correct one, sometimes the author isn’t properly rendered, etc. is there a way to automate this? i know using something like radarr helps when you’re downloading but what i am supposed to do with the files i already have?
I don’t bother with Calibre or anything similar; I simply use the directory structure. Easier to show it with examples than explaining it.
You get the idea, right? No additional software needed, any automation tool to move/rename files can be used to help you out, and since metadata isn’t used for the organisation you can take your sweet time checking and fixing it. And sharing it across my network means simply sharing a directory with everything in it.
Key points to use this approach effectively:
Ah, on automation:
$series_namelist of episodes” for descriptive names for anime or live action seasons. Often you can copypaste the whole text bloc into a text editor, and use some find-and-replace to get rid of everything except episode number + episode name.mv 01.mkv "01 - The Sphere.mkv" mv 02.mkv "02 - The Inhabited.mkv" [...]