Support custom folders

[deathbybandaid]

Everybody organizes their media differently.

I, personally have all of my movies on a 6tb drive. The structure of the drive is fairly straightforward:

Theatre -
|- Movies - (Year) TheNameOfMovie - (Year) TheNameOfMovie.mkv (or .mp4, .avi etc...)
| |(Year) TheNameOfMovie.NFO
|
|- Movie Series - Marvel Movies - (Year) TheNameOfMovie.mkv (or .mp4, .avi etc...)
| |(Year) TheNameOfMovie.NFO
|
|- DC Movies- (Year) TheNameOfMovie.mkv (or .mp4, .avi etc...)
| |_(Year) TheNameOfMovie.NFO
|
|- Star Trek -.........

And so on and so forth.

What I'm saying is that I can add every single small folder individually, but it would be nice to tick a checkbox that forces the program to scan down a level, or something to that effect.

Currently, if I scan my movie series directory, it sees Star trek, and thinks that it is a single movie instead of the 13 individual subfolders.

AB#1043

[deathbybandaid]

Referencing #112 , add the ability to have a "collections" directory, and see what movies are part of a series, but not organized that way. You could then click a button to move them into that style of directory.

[onedr0p]

@deathbybandaid I am a fan of KISS when it comes to file paths. We should only support the Plex, Emby, and Kodi base standard of:
Movie Folder\Movie File.ext

You could then symlink the movie folders / files to a new folder if you want something fancy like you have.

[ShanDestromp]

I don't think symlinking is even needed if real subfolders aren't going to be used; just pull the "collection" information out of the metadata which is how Kodi (and presumably Plex and Emby) determine if a movie is part of a collection or not.

[mmozeiko]

Do I understand correctly that if I have only one "Movies" folder which has all my movies inside (no subfolders) then radarr won't match any movie? Currently only supported organization is for each movie to be in separate folder?

[onedr0p]

@mmozeiko hopefully we can add that in future releases.

[bakthomas]

if you want to move your movies to folders, I found a great little program called file2folder.
It will search a directory you point it to can create a folder for every file in there based on the file name.
I.E. File "Avatar (2009).mp4 with create a folder called "Avatar (2009)" and place the file inside it.
Since Radarr is going to create folders for you new movies, you may as well sort them all the same way.

[mmozeiko]

Thanks, but I don't want to move files. I like the current setup I have - mainly because I have people accessing movies not only through Plex, but also through samba share, and making them click twice as much (to go into movie folder for actual file) is just not convenient.

I could move them all with simple bash one-liner:
for f in *; do mkdir "${f%.*}"; mv "$f" "${f%.*}"; done
No need for external programs. Or I could rearrange it with hardlinks:
for f in *; do mkdir "${f%.*}"; ln "$f" "${f%.*}/"; done
But then it would be a mess to manage. And it would be a bit ugly to migrate my backup system (I wouldn't want to copy all those "new" TB of files as new and delete current files).

[HeyItsWaters]

I also store all my movies in one flat folder. I'll keep monitoring this issue :)

[giopas]

I have similar, yet different issue. With CouchPotato I have no issues, tought.

My Movie folder is a bit of a mess:

/share/Multimedia/Video/Movies
../[ENG]
../movie1/movie1.avi
../movie2.avi
../[FRA]
../movie1/movie1.avi
../movie2.avi

I have tried to import all items in /Movies, but it fails and just a bunch (without reason) items are grabbed.

Here is the log:

QueueService failed while processing [TrackedDownloadRefreshedEvent]: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at NzbDrone.Core.Queue.QueueService+d__6.MoveNext () [0x000db] in <91bbb96ae11440e188cfe6d98eae7292>:0
at System.Linq.Enumerable+c__Iterator22[TSource,TResult].MoveNext () [0x000bc] in <5f01f5aacbb346938d6f9b4e69d4383a>:0 at System.Collections.Generic.List1[T]..ctor (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1[T] collection) [0x0008b] in <a8460a77e67a430a8486a9751162e5f4>:0 at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource] (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1[T] source) [0x00011] in <5f01f5aacbb346938d6f9b4e69d4383a>:0
at NzbDrone.Core.Queue.QueueService.Handle (NzbDrone.Core.Download.TrackedDownloads.TrackedDownloadRefreshedEvent message) [0x0003b] in <91bbb96ae11440e188cfe6d98eae7292>:0
at NzbDrone.Core.Messaging.Events.EventAggregator.PublishEvent[TEvent] (TEvent event) [0x000c3] in <91bbb96ae11440e188cfe6d98eae7292>:0

Where should I look at?

[mmozeiko]

I get this exception with completely empty movie database. So I think this is pretty unrelated to how you organize movies in folders. Seems something related to checking finished downloads with torrent or nzb clients.

[onedr0p]

I would make each language it's own root folder. For example Try pointing to:
/share/Multimedia/Video/Movies/[ENG]