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So? You'd refuse to use a tool that does most of the work because you don't wanna use the tool that does the rest?
FileBot doesn't do the rest, though. It still requires you to manually figure out which episode is in each file.
My point is that your suggestion doesn't actually solve the problem the way the OP asked. And even the suggested way to use the software you suggested, which uses other software, also doesn't solve the problem the OP asked about.
That's all I'm saying. I don't care about using a second program, but ARM, even when used with FileBot, doesn't do what the OP asked. That's my point.
Also, FileBot isn't free, so it's not even the cheapest way to fail to solve the problem. There are tons of ways that would fall to solve the problem for free, so suggesting one that costs money seems silly IMO.
It's still a manual process even with FileBot, though. I guess you could argue that is semiautomatic, but, for a lot of discs, it's not a hell of a lot easier than doing it manually. You still have to manually look up the show name, manually figure out which episode is in each file, manually split the video file if it has more than one episode in it, manually merge the episode if it's spread across multiple files, etc.
My complaint isn't that it requires using more than one program. My complaint is ARM, even with FileBot, isn't really a solution. The problem is that there isn't really a solution. Ripping DVDs is just a crappy process with a lot of manual work involved.
I'm not sure there even exists a way to fully automated it, as that would require automatically identifying the relevant tracks/files and looking up the metadata. I'm not sure there is such a database.