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Recommended naming scheme
On the Sonarr Discord{:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} people often ask, "What's the recommended/best way to name your files?" First off, it's personal preference, but it's often recommended to add non-recoverable info.
Why?
If, for what ever reason, you ever need to do a re-install or re-import in the Starr Apps or Plex/Emby/Jellyfin it's nice to have all that info in the filename so it gets imported correctly and isn't incorrectly matched as HDTV or WEB-DL etc.
The Tokens not available in the release won't be used/shown.
Standard Episode Format
!!! caution "Starting from v3.0.6.1431, Sonarr now supports recognizing Dolby Vision (DV) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) types. "
If you're using a lower version replace:
`{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}` with `{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange]}`
{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Preferred Words }{Quality Full}]{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}{[Mediainfo AudioCodec}{ Mediainfo AudioChannels]}{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}
??? summary "RESULTS: - [CLICK TO EXPAND]"
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - Episode Title 1 [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E02-E03 - Episode Title [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
Daily Episode Format
{Series TitleYear} - {Air-Date} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Preferred Words }{Quality Full}]{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}{[Mediainfo AudioCodec}{ Mediainfo AudioChannels]}{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}
??? summary "RESULTS: - [CLICK TO EXPAND]"
`The Series Title! (2010) - 2013-10-30 - Episode Title 1 [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
Anime Episode Format
{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {absolute:000} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Preferred Words }{Quality Full}]{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}[{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit]{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}[{Mediainfo AudioCodec} { Mediainfo AudioChannels}]{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}{-Release Group}
??? summary "RESULTS: - [CLICK TO EXPAND]"
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - 001 - Episode Title 1 [iNTERNAL HDTV-720p v2][HDR10][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E02-E03 - 001-002-003 - Episode Title [iNTERNAL HDTV-720p v2][HDR10][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp`
Series Folder Format
{Series TitleYear}
RESULT:
The Series Title! (2010)
Optional Series Folder Format for the Plex TV Series Scanner and Jellyfin/Emby
This naming scheme is made to be compatible with the new Plex TV Series Scanner{:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} that now support IMDB and TVDB IDs in file names.
For Plex:
{Series TitleYear} [imdb-{ImdbId}]
RESULT:
The Series Title! (2010) [imdb-tt1520211]
!!! note
The officially supported format is {imdb-{ImdbId}} but Plex should also support (imdb-{ImdbId}) or [imdb-{ImdbId}], though the above should work for now, It's actually not needed to add an ID to the folder or filename to use the new Plex TV Series Scanner.
For Jellyfin/Emby:
{Series TitleYear} [imdbid-{ImdbId}]
RESULT:
The Series Title! (2010) [imdbid-tt1520211]
!!! tip IMDb IDs are going to be very accurate and rarely change, TVDB/TMDB IDs, on the other hand, do change or are removed more frequently.
Season Folder Format
For this there's only one real option to use in my opinion.
Season {season:00}
RESULT:
Season 01
Multi-Episode Style
Prefixed Range
RESULTS:
Original Title vs Original Filename
If you want to keep the original release name that holds 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.Series.Title.S01E01.Episode.Title.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-RlsGrp
{Original Filename} => show episode 1-1080p or lchd-tkk1080p or t1i0p3s7i8yuti
Thanks:
A big Thanks to fryfrog, rg9400 and bakerboy448 for the suggestions.
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