Thread: how you organize your series?

Separate folders on an external 2TB drive in Alphabetical Order - in a folder in a folder in a folder !!!!

..TV Show Name
....Season 1
........Episode 1
........Episode 2

So on and so forth.

I do it the same way except I like to have the episode title.

Name of Series - SXXEXX - Title of the episode

HD/Series Name/Series - Season #/Name - SxxExx

Originally Posted by Pen

..TV Show Name
....Season 1
........Episode 1
........Episode 2

So on and so forth.

Same as you friend

im gonna checkout those programs i hate doing this all manually

I have been through a couple of systems, the one I preferred was similar to what Needless mentioned above.

A folder for the TV show with a nice high resolution icon and all the seasons together with the episodes renamed to "01 - Title of Episode.mkv".
A variation would be to keep a text file with original filename, size in bytes and a checksum then rename the file to (for example) chuck.s01e01.mkv
Leaving the tv show's name in the file name helps when you search for something with your operating system. Now that everything's indexed (if you let it) searches take seconds anyway.

But. There is a big but. One 't'.

But I like to think of myself as a computer programmer and the concept of, well, 'interfaces' (programming-wise and otherwise) and flexibility and the idea of using something without really needing to care for, see, even understand (for the end user) what's beneath is very important to me.

It's like when you use a nice shiny web interface to control a torrent client on another machine. Technicallly you shouldn't even have to know which client you're controlling.

All this to say that I am now experimenting with another approach.
I don't keep anything anymore because I noticed that I have never once watched an episode / movie again. I download, watch, keep seeding to 1.55 or 4 weeks (whatever comes first) and delete.
My 'interface' is μtorrent itself, I open the files from it, mark them as watched with a label corresponding to the tracker they come from and that's it; when all is done and seeded or the Elapsed field tells me it's been 4 weeks, 'remove and delete torrent and data'. End of story.

I very very very rarely open the actual download folder.


... aaaaand this post is 1815 characters long and we all know that's more than enough.

i have made diffrent folders in hrd drive like action,comedy,anim etc etc..

I have them this way:
-My Videos
-TV Shows
-TNT (or whichever network originally aired the series)
-Leverage (or Series name)
-Season 01 (02, 03... 10, 11, So on)
-Leverage - Season 01 - Episode 01 - The Nigerian Job.mkv