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I was wondering if anyone could explain how the VLC app organizes video files into folders. I've been adding files and only a couple files go into folders but most do not. I thought it organized it by names but when I changed the names of some files similar to the ones that would go into folders it didn't work. I ended up looking at the files that would organize in VLC on my desktop and noticed in the Media Information window in the Metadata tab it has showName, episodeNumber, and seasonNumber. I believe this is how they are organized.

I asked in the VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting how to add showName, episodeNumber, and seasonNumber in my video files. I know VLC can add a bit of information in the Media Information window but it seems like that is more for mp3 and I'm using mp4 and mvk.

If there is a better way to organize I'd love to know. Wish the app could allows me to upload whole folders since my videos are already organized how I want in folders on my desktop.

Hello,

we are using different mechanism for audio and video file sorting. For audio, we are using the meta tags you discovered. Since most video files don't really include those, we implemented a pattern matcher for file names, which recognizes S00E00 and 0x00 anywhere within the name. If you do "My Show Name S00E00 my episode name", those tags will be recognized as well.

The next version of VLC will add support for manual folder creation, too!