Templates are broken again in 7.0.1.2

DarkSkies

Anyone else finding that if you have parentheses in Settings > Templates (Movie) that the parentheses are being replaced with underscores in the filename?

In my movie template I have both parentheses and brackets, but brackets are output wheras parentheses are replaced with underscores.

This is happening for me on any service I’ve used with version 7008.

Here’s a capture showing my settings and the most recent movie saved, where the parentheses wrapping the year variable are replaced with underscores.

(Note: I hardcoded the “6ch” text, SF doesn’t have a variable that outputs that.)

DarkSkies

Turns out it’s module-dependent on when it shows or doesn’t output parentheses in the filename.

I tested 9 services this morning with these results:
2 didn’t output the year at all and replaced () with underscores: Fandango at Home, Roku
4 output the year and replaced () with underscores: Apple TV, HBO Max, Hulu, Peacock
3 output the year and () as supplied in the Movie Template: Amazon, Disney+, Netflix

I’ll reports this to SF via the Feedback button.

(FYI for @Wilson.Wang )

⛔ NO PARANTHESES and NO YEAR
Fandango at Home
Roku

The Fall Guy __ [Fandango at Home H265 HDR10 2160p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
The Big Country __ [Roku H264 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4

⚠️ NO PARANTHESES AROUND YEAR
Apple TV
HBO Max
Hulu
Peacock

The Lost Bus _2025_ [Apple TV H265 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
The Great Wall _2017_ [HBO Max H265 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
Kumail Nanjiani_ Night Thoughts _2025_ [Hulu H265 SDR 2160p -- EAC3 6ch]
Stranger Than Fiction _2006_ [Peacock H264 SDR 1080p -- AAC 6ch].mp4

✅ PARANTHESES AROUND YEAR
Amazon
Disney+
Netflix

Tropic Thunder (2008) [Amazon H265 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
The Other Guys (2010) [Amazon H265 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
The Life of Chuck (2024) [Disney+ H265 SDR 1080p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4
Caught Stealing (2025) [Netflix H264 SDR 540p -- EAC3 6ch].mp4

All files output today:

My MOVIE TEMPLATE

StephenKovacsiss

In these settings, I have a specific setup and when it saves it is adding additional folders when saving. I have it set for the following settings:
[showname]\Season [season_num][showname] - S[season.num]E[episode.num] - [episode.name]
EX: Loki\Season 01\Loki - S01E01 - Glorious Purpose.mp4

What I am seeing in the Output folder is:
[showname]\S[season.num][showname]\Season [season_num][showname] - S[season.num]E[episode.num] - [episode.name]

With this, all of the seasons end up in the Root (first) folder of the Showname, which means I have to move them to get them with out the extra S01 and Showname folders.

Is there something I can do to fix this and get it to follow my structure? I am trying to copy it to my Plex server and have to move each season into the root to get it the way I have it setup there.

DarkSkies

SF automatically creates folders for the show name and for the season, so you don’t want to include it in the template.

Here’s my settings:

With just the above (which follows Plex naming conventions), when Loki is recorded SF will create a folder named “Loki” and under that will create a folder for each season of the show you’re downloading. Ex: if you’re doing Loki seasons 1 and 2, it will create the folder Loki, then create a folder s01 and put the captures under it, then create a folder s02 under Loki, and put the captures for that season under it.

(I’m not a fan of SF using the “s##” convention for folders, so I do rename them to “Season ##” before I move the folders to Plex.)

StephenKovacsiss

DarkSkies Thank you, I was thinking about doing the same thing. I wanted to ask as I just did a series and had to rename and move them all, which reminded me to ask. I will submit feedback to Streamfab also. Thank you for your suggestion though.

DarkSkies

A quick follow-up: SF is quirky with naming templates in that not all modules honor it. Some services/modules will completely ignore your template and output an episode something like this: “SHOW NAME_S01E06_Episode Title.mp4”.

For the longest time Peacock didn’t honor template names, but they fixed that in 2025 so now it does. So any time you find a service completely ignoring your template, be sure to submit feedback in Streamfab to report it.

ms-dfav

In SF 7.0.1.2 both ‘\’ and ‘.’ in templates are replaced with an underscore and - because of that - it is impossible to influence the location of the episodes via these characters. Didn’t happen with SF 7.0.0.9. Didn’t test SF 7.0.1.1.

Exactly the same bug had been introduced a long time ago in SF 6.2.1.1.

Germania

ms-dfav In SF 7.0.1.2 both ‘\’ and ‘.’ in templates are replaced with an underscore

Yes, that bothers me too - it worked for almost two years (exception 620x here)
and it was the same with 7011

ms-dfav Didn’t happen with SF 7.0.0.9

For me it was always with 7008 the case - examples
(see the filenames that begin with ___):
ATV / HBO Max / WOW

And like so much in SF, it’s not uniform ..
.. works with Amazon + Netflix - but not for AppleTV + HBO Max

ms-dfav

DarkSkies note that this bug is not about the parentheses. Might be related though.

DarkSkies

ms-dfav well definitely related: punctuation users add to a template are replaced with underscore in some services. For the life of me I can’t fathom why a filename is dependent and can change based on the module: a name is a name, shouldn’t matter which service outputs the filename. My guess is they had several different devs working on different modules, and each dev was left to their own to code outputting the filename, rather than using a common filename routine that simply conforms to the user’s naming template.

braydin72

I recently did a full uninstall and reinstall to fix an issue I was having. It deleted all my settings, which I expected. My default names template had something like this ....\TV Shows\ and it would put the TV Shows in a folder just for TV shows. Something similar for Movies to put all movies in a movie folder. After the reinstall that no longer works. Now that gives me file names like _TV ShowsShow name_SXXEXX_EPisode_Description.mp4 Movies does the same thing.

KidJoe

parenthesis are being converted to underscores for Fandango at home, but not Amazon.

Stan001

They need a dedicated developer to fully fix all providers output template’s.
How some are broke other modules not and yet other modules ignore it,

How about consistency?

And I know off topic, but the same with auto analyze vs manual analyze, should work the same in every module.

Sebastian001

Stan001 This is because they do not have a basic module with building blocks for different providers.