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    Naming convention for movies

    Importance of following the official suggestion for naming of movie files
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    2025-07-12, 12:38 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-07-15, 04:09 AM by alleycat. Edited 2 times in total.)
    (2025-07-12, 08:21 AM)JellyJeff Wrote: Hello,

    the official documentation about naming of movie files states: "The video files within the folder should have the same name as the folder."

    As it says "should", I want to know if someone uses any other way of naming their movies and what downsides come with it.
    I don't like the suggested way as path names get very long for movies with long names and because of the redundancy in it. I would prefer to use a name like "movie.mkv" (literally) for every movie and keep the real movie name in the folder name only. For multiple versions I would want to use "movie - 1080p.mkv" and "movie - 2160p.mkv" and so on.

    Has anyone any experience with or opinion on this idea?

    If you want the "pull down" button in the UI to work, you need to name them like this

    or you could put them in separate directories without the extra naming.
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    Naming convention for movies - by JellyJeff - 2025-07-12, 08:21 AM
    RE: Naming convention for movies - by alleycat - 2025-07-12, 12:38 PM
    RE: Naming convention for movies - by theguymadmax - 2025-07-12, 02:14 PM

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