File naming convention documentation is still unclear

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Good morning folks,

Here’s an extract from the official documentation:

  1. show-name_s01.e02.mkv
  2. show-name_s1e2.mkv
  3. show-name_1x02.mkv
  4. show-name_se1.ep2.mkv
  5. show-name-season1.episode2.mkv
  6. show name/any folder/S01E02.mkv
  7. show name/any folder/01.02 NameOfEpisode.mkv
  8. show name/season 1/02 NameOfEpisode.mkv
  9. show name/season 1/1-02 NameOfEpisode.mkv
  10. show name/season 1/episode 02 - NameOfEpisode.mkv

I sadly does not address clearly if any other convention will work, or not.

Below are some naming guidelines which will allow you to get the best results when matching your videos with titles from TMDB.

For instance, will those work?

  • show-name_s01e02.mkv (not period between season and episode
  • What about show name/season 1/, show-name_s1e2.mkv, show-name_1x02.mkv, 1-02 NameOfEpisode.mkv? One digit only for season often messes up everything when ordering alphabetically on a computer because, 11 comes in between 1 and 2
  • What about show name/any folder/S01E02 - Episode name.mkv? This one would be the one I want to use, it sounds like it worked for most, but Infuse is behaving savagely when it doesn’t know a TV Show and does not even follow embedded metadata as fallback.
  • If I choose show name/season 01 (with leading 0), does season 01 fall in the case of any folder like in show name/any folder/S01E02.mkv?

The documentation states:

Period, space, underscore, and dash can all be used interchangeably as separator characters for both movies and TV shows.

This does not say if dropping them will work, neither if using or not S, E, adding leasing 0, etc. on any convention will work too. For instance, this is the convention proposed: show-name_1x02.mkv, would show-name_S01xE02.mkv actually work?

Thanks in advance for the clarification!