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Infuse Naming Format: Movies, TV Shows and Subtitles

Wrong artwork or unrecognized titles in Infuse are almost always a naming problem. This guide covers the Infuse naming format for movies, TV shows and subtitles, plus how to generate it automatically.

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How Infuse identifies your files

Infuse keeps no database of its own. It reads filenames and folder structure directly and uses that to match online metadata. Whether your wall shows the right poster or a grey placeholder comes down to naming.

Movie naming

  • Title plus year is the essential pair — the year disambiguates remakes
  • Keeping both localized and original titles is fine; Infuse tries them in order
  • Use the year or separate folders to distinguish cuts of the same film

Recommended

                      Movies/
├── Dune (2021)/
│   └── Dune (2021).mkv
├── Fight Club (1999).mkv

TV show naming

  • Season folders as Season 01 / Season 02, two digits
  • Episodes as S01E01 — not 1x01 and not “Episode 1”
  • Double episodes as S01E01E02, merged files as S01E01-E02

Recommended

                      TV Shows/
└── Severance (2022)/
    ├── Season 01/
    │   ├── Severance.S01E01.mkv
    │   └── Severance.S01E02.mkv
    └── Season 02/

Infuse is most reliable with show (year)/Season xx/SxxExx, which matches the TMDB and TVDB conventions.

Subtitle naming

External subtitles must share the video's base filename, optionally with a language suffix. Infuse pairs subtitles by filename; a mismatch turns them into unrelated standalone files.

Subtitle pairing

                      Severance.S01E01.mkv
Severance.S01E01.srt
Severance.S01E01.zh.srt
Severance.S01E01.en.srt

Fixing the format in one pass with VRenamer

  • Add the folder holding your media as an SMB / WebDAV file source
  • Scan it — VRenamer separates video and subtitle files and links them
  • After scraping TMDB it outputs show (year)/Season xx/SxxExx naming
  • Subtitle files are renamed alongside their video so the pairing survives
  • Turn on keep-extra-information or bilingual naming in format settings if you need them

FAQ

Is the year really required?

Strongly recommended. Same-title works are common — remakes, reboots, shows sharing a name across countries — and the year is the most direct signal Infuse and TMDB use to tell them apart.

Should I keep release group and resolution info?

It does not break matching, but it makes filenames long. VRenamer has a keep extra information toggle so resolution tags survive only if you want them.

Infuse is not refreshing after the rename.

Pull down on the library page to trigger a refresh, or re-scan the specific folder from settings. If it is still wrong, verify the folder structure and SxxExx format first.

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