Trash guides and the arrs.

Sonarr does TV stuff and renames then to meet say Plex standards.

So my process is… Add TV show to sonarr use sabnzbd to download and sonarr moves and renames the show which then appears in Plex.

But like I said… Trash guides will get you sorted

Edit: it’ll be quicker in a lot of cases to download rather than rip

When I was getting content from mega, I used filebot to rename.

The paid version is $6 it’s absolutely worth it

Like others said the arr stack is probably what you’re looking for. If you’re only looking to rename files sonarr will fill you in ! Look at the documentation, I only use sonarr to rename my local files !

Other thing to consider, is this cool github project TVMV which also renames the files but you need to register to create an API key from TMDB (its free and you can fill in dummy informations). But it’s less customizable. I’m only using it to rename files if their name is in a different language than English.

About metadata, I don’t know if there’s a bulk and recursive metadata editor and dunno if sonarr fills in the gap. However, mkvtool and bash scripting is probably going to be your tools here.

How I would go about it:

• rename your files with sonarr putting all the important stuff in the filename
• bash script with mkvtool to strip and copy portions of the title name and add them in the corresponding metadata field.

There’s probably a better way to stripe metadata from sites like tvdb but I’m not a dev so it’s totally out of my scope and knowledge.

I second using sonarr/radarr, once imported it detects episodes and lets you one click rename to a specific format and folder organization.

If you don’t want any of the other features of sonarr/radarr (like having a way to filter and manage your collection to see what’s in what quality or from what release group, searching multiple indexers with a single search, being able to send a specific search result to a downloader and have it automatically imported and organized when complete, or have auto downloading based on requests using scoring rules that you set), then there’s also filebot which a lot of people seem to like and seems to be just for matching with online metadata and renaming.

But I haven’t tried filebot since I like the extra features and capabilities of sonarr/radarr. It makes it easy to manage several library folders like an archive for anything that’s been reviewed, is complete, and in a quality/codec that I’m satisfied with, and keeping track of currently airing shows in my active folder which is where I also keep auto downloaded stuff I haven’t reviewed.

RenameMyTVSeries is the simplest way to do it if you’re not using the *arr stack for downloading stuff