Media Information Management - write episode name as showname

General Support / Questions Metadata and Renaming
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Is there any way when using Media Information Management to save/write the “title” instead of “showtitle” to the file?

Or is there a way to use the Correction funcntion to change the “Original Title” to %episodename% like is used with Custom File Renaming to change the Title to Subtitle/Episode Name?

When trying to rename sports games I would love to use the “Team 1 vs Team 2” or even better “%airyear%-%airmonth%-%airday% %episodename%” (like I custom rename the files to) as the “Title” insetad of defaulting everything to “NFL Football” (which is the showtitle).

Thanks!

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The purpose of the Metadata Title correction GUI is to correct the title so that MCEBuddy to look up the remaining metadata from the internet using the correct title name. So it’s a chicken & egg situation where you want to use episodename and other metadata items which are only retrieved after the title has been corrected.

However, what you’re trying to do can be done through a CustomCommand. This is a custom command that runs after the conversion is completed, at which time all the metadata is available. You can add this to your profile in profiles.conf and it will execute after a successful conversion and once the metadata has been written to the converted file. What this is does is invoke an included app called AtomicParsley which is used to overwrite the metadata of the converted file. Custom commands can use metadata variables in their script (just like you use for renaming) so you can pretty much change the title (or any other metadata atom) to anything you’d like. Here’s an example:

CustomCommandPath=AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley.exe
CustomCommandParameters="%convertedfile%" --overWrite --title "%airyear%-%airmonth%-%airday% %episodename%"
CustomCommandHangPeriod=100
CustomCommandCritical=true
CustomCommandUISession=false
CustomCommandShowWindow=false
CustomCommandExitCodeCheck=false

If it’s a series you may want to consider changing the --TVShowName metadata atom instead of the --title atom.

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