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Is there a way for me to seed movies, but be able to maintain the file structure? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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An example is if I want to seed Harry Potter movies can I put the content in G:\Movies\Harry Potter\

But then be able to still seed the content outside the Harry Potter file structure. I.e still able to seed G:\Movies\

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I second what another commenter said about hardlinks. I used to use a program (paid) called Filebot that makes this process pretty easy. You download all torrents to say G:/Downloads then drag the files into Filebot and it will search across internet media databases to match the metadata and automatically rename and hardlink the files to say G:/Movies using a format you specify.

For example: G:/Downloads/Movies/Oppenheimer.2023.BluRay.2160p.HDR.MULTi.5.1.AV1.Opus.DVD5-CAV1aR.mkv

to

G:/Movies/Oppenheimer (2023).mkv

Then you can still seed everything in G:/Downloads while having a nicely organised media library. The actual file on disk does not get deleted until all hardlinks have been deleted.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seconding hardlinks, but one (potentially important) note is that they won’t work on a NAS. A hardlink basically tells the drive there are two ways to navigate to the same file on the disc. But this doesn’t work over a networked drive, (at least, not in my experience) even if the two locations stay on the same drive.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

You would probably have to run the hardlink command on the NAS through SSH or something to achieve the same effect but it should still be possible.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you ever want to rename the file though? The extra tags are useful, eg for when searching matching subtitles or remembering quality without needing to check ffprobe.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Filebot supports subtitle downloading and programs like Plex & Jellyfin work better when files are named organised according to convention.

The utility of having a well organised media library is more useful to me than the non-issues of downloading subtitles or figuring out quality.