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Cake day: February 4th, 2024

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  • Some tricks I’ve used in the past when huge sets of episodes are scrambled or misnamed and you need to start from square one matching them:

    • Check if the files have any embedded metadata with the episode name or number using a tool like MediaInfo
    • If the episodes have different runtimes, you can try to match them to runtimes listed on a well-labeled list of episodes, like on Wikipedia or in a torrent.
    • Download a tool to auto-generate subtitles from the audio track. Probably won’t be accurate, but should give you enough of the dialogue to now search online and see what episode it is.
    • If the show has a splash screen with the episode name at a fixed time, like many kids shows, you can auto-generate thumbnails at that time for all episodes
    • Last resort: Manually watch enough of each episode to match it to the right episode synopsis on e.g. wikipedia and then label it appropriately
    • Pirate option: Pretend you ripped it yourself and download a properly-curated set