TV episode downloaded as blindspot.110.hdtv-lol[ettv].mp4 and renamed using FileBot as Blindspot – S01E10 – Evil Handmade Instrument.mp4 The naming scheme I’m using is one of the default for the TV Show naming: {n} – {s00e00} – {t} with slightly modifying as {n} – {s00e00} – {t.replaceAll(/:/, ‘ – ‘)}. Perks? When a title has colon (:) in the name and Filebot force-validate invalid characters, I can avoid space in the name and instead use dash(-). Thus gotham.209.hdtv-lol.mp4 renames into Gotham – S02E09 – Rise of the Villains – A Bitter Pill to Swallow.mp4 instead of Gotham – S02E09 – Rise of the Villains: A Bitter Pill to Swallow.mp4 or Gotham – S02E09 – Rise of the Villains A Bitter Pill to Swallow.mp4
Thanks to rednoah: the creator of Filebot, for the modified format expression idea!
UPDATE:
Right after posting this I stumbled on an episode renaming that contains “?” in the title. As dense as I am, couldn’t figure out how to make it work so it will work for both “:” and “?”. So I reached out to the creator @filebot_renamer for help:
@SaidulHassan regex /[:?]/ will match any : and ?
— FileBot (@filebot_renamer) November 24, 2015
Here you go: {n} – {s00e00} – {t.replaceAll(/[:?]/, ‘ – ‘)}
Saidul Hassan