atc98092 wrote:When I use IMDB numbers, I don't usually include brackets or the year. No idea if it might make a difference. I have had to play around a bit with the file name on a few files. One movie I could not get to identify correctly until I put it in a folder all by itself. I named the folder with just the movie name (Cherry 2000), and then named the file "Cherry 2000 tt0092746.ts". that finally got it correctly.
I tried it in every possible combination that I could think of - doesn't work. But I think that 8digit TT number might have something to do with it - if its hardcoded to look for 7digits, that 8th one will be ignored, and I've noticed that if there is a perfectly good name/year matching file name it will override whatever is in the TT tag if that movie doesn't match.
The fact that I use the round and square brackets is mostly for ascetics (
and to keep my OCD at bay), but when managing large swaths of files I found that with some of the tools I developed for my personal use it made things easier to do tests with. E.g. if I want to extract a TT code from the file name, instead of looking for a string that matches "tt", and then checking to see if there is numbers after it, I rather search for "[tt" in the filename, and then read up to the "]" (
...so my apps doesn't have this issue), and I know full well that whatever is grabbed there will be 100% correct.
Same goes for the year - I look for the last "(" and last ")" and I know that will be the year of the movie - and since I follow a very strict naming convention anything between the last ")" and "[" will be the quality
Finally, any title that starts with "the"/"a"/"an"...etc. gets it moved to the end of the name as a postfix - it allows the files to be displayed properly in chronological order when browsing in the file system.