V4 meta-data question

[MidnightInAurora]

Will the upcoming V4 handle years in movies and shows?

For example -

The Americans and The Americans (2013), The Outer Limits and The Outer Limits (1995) and my personal hot-button, irritating problem - Doctor Who and Doctor Who (2005).

Also, in movies -

1984 (1984) or 2012 (2012).

Would also need to handle trailing articles in both shows and movies - Americans (2013), The

A quick check shows 98% of registered Serbian voters want you to fix this.

Jim

[Paul]

Hi Jim,

We'll check that out. To help us understand in detail, tell us what Mezzmo v3.4.4.0 is doing (wrong) and what Mezzmo v4.0 should be doing (right). Give us some of your file path examples to try here.

[MidnightInAurora]

Will do.

Here's something I did discover when looking at why shows weren't being retrieved correctly. It looks like the year (if there is one), is not being passed.

I have a folder named "Americans (2013), The" with one file named "The Americans (2013) - 1x01 'Pilot'.mkv

Auto meta-data retrieval doesn't find data for it. However, when I manually get meta-data, the filename shows just "The Americans." If I append 2013 at the end and search, it does find it.

Same with Doctor Who. Folder name Doctor Who (2005) and the auto process retrieves the wrong series (the 1960s one). The manual process also shows just "Doctor Who." However, if I append 2005 and search, it retrieves the correct series.

So maybe a regular expression to test for "(nnnn)." Extract the number and use it for the year.

Make it a Mezzmo rule - if you need year specificity, the format is "(nnnn)" or forget it.

I'll check on movies in a few minutes.

Jim

[MidnightInAurora]

One more thing on shows. I'm not sure anything inside parens is being passed.

I have "Life On Mars" and "Life On Mars (US)". Both appear that way in TVDB, but the auto meta search returns "Life On Mars" when attempting to get meta for "Life On Mars (US)." The manual meta search shows "Life On Mars" in the filename. Appending "(US)" to the filename and searching returns the correct series. Mezzmo is dropping data surrounded by parens before it's passed for meta retrieval and I believe that's incorrect.

Movies - I'm not sure how to explain what's going on with this, other than to say I don't think year is being checked even though in some cases it's being passed.

I have a folder "1984 (1984)" with a file named 1984 (1984).mkv. The meta being returned manually for both "1984 (1984)" and "1984 1984" is for some Japanese movie made in 1984. I've tried manual search with "1984" and it does return meta for the movie 1984, but for the 1954 version.

I tested two other movies, "Flight Of the Phoenix (1965)" and "Flight of the Phoenix (2004)." The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 movie returns meta for the 2004 movie.

Jim

[Paul]

Thanks, Jim. We'll check these out in the upcoming Mezzmo v4.0.

[Paul]

Update: We have fixed these issues for the upcoming Mezzmo v4.0.