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Often on Radarr discord people asking what's the recommended/best way to naming your files. first of it's personal preference, but the support staff often recommend to add also non recoverable info. Why ?

if you even need to do a re-install, re-import for what ever reason in Radarr or Plex/Emby/JellyFin it's nice to have all that info in the filename so it get's imported correctly and not been matched as HDTV or WEB-DL etc.

The Tokens not available in the release won't be used/shown.

Standard Movie Format

Movie Folder Format

Original Title vs Original Filename


Standard Movie Format

All the details.

This naming scheme is made to be compatible with the New Plex Agent that now support IMDB and TMDB IDs in file names, if you don't need it or want it just remove [imdb-{ImdbId}]

{Movie CleanTitle} {(Release Year)} {Edition Tags} [imdb-{ImdbId}]{[Custom Formats]}{[Quality Full]}{[MediaInfo 3D]}{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange]}[{Mediainfo VideoBitDepth}bit][{Mediainfo VideoCodec}]{[Mediainfo AudioCodec}{ Mediainfo AudioChannels}]{-Release Group}

RESULT:

The Movie Title (2010) Ultimate Extended Edition [imdb-tt0066921][Surround Sound x264][Bluray-1080p Proper][3D][HDR][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1]-EVOLVE

Minimal details + the irreplaceable data.

This naming scheme is made to be compatible with the New Plex Agent that now support IMDB and TMDB IDs in file names, if you don't need it or want it just remove [imdb-{ImdbId}]

{Movie CleanTitle} {(Release Year)} [imdb-{ImdbId}]{[Quality Title]}{[MediaInfo AudioCodec}{ MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}

RESULT:

The Movie Title (2010) [imdb-tt0066921][Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-EVOLVE


Original Title vs Original Filename

Want to keep the original release name that holds like all the info of the file then I suggest to use {Original Title} over {Original Filename} !!!

Why ?

The filename can be Obscured where the Release naming isn't especially when you use Usenet.

{Original Title} => The.Movie.Title.2010.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.x264-GROUP

{Original Filename} => group-karatekid-1080p or lchd-tkk1080p or t1i0p3s7i8yuti


Movie Folder Format

Minimal needed !!!

{Movie CleanTitle} ({Release Year})

RESULT:

The Movie Title (2010)


Keep in mind adding anything more after the release year could give issues during a fresh import in to Radarr, but in this examples it helps for movies that have the same release name and year.

{Movie CleanTitle} {(Release Year)} [imdb-{ImdbId}]

RESULT:

The Movie Title (2010) [imdb-tt0066921]


THNX:

A big thnx to fryfrog and rg9400 for the suggestions.