Movie Name Format for Matching

Discussion in 'HDD Media player(RTD 1619DR)' started by dalemccl, Oct 19, 2022.

  1. dalemccl

    dalemccl New Member

    I'm probably going to buy a Z9X. In the helpful guide posted by Nice Monkey, the suggested file name format for movies in order optimize the matching process is:
    Movie Name.Year.Resolution.Video encodes.Audio Encodes

    I have over 2,000 movies and videos on hard drives. They are already named with just the movie name such as:
    Top Gun.mkv or Air Force One.iso

    I don't want to rename 2,000 movies to optimize the matching. Do you think I will have problems with the matching process when scraping TMDB/IMDB with my existing naming format?
     
    dalemccl, Oct 19, 2022
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  2. AngryVirginian

    AngryVirginian Active Member

    I think the current recommendation is Movie Name (Year). extension

    I think that you will not have a lot of problem with your current naming scheme except that HT4 may match it to the movie from a different year with the same name.

    There are also HT4 matching quirks for movie name with comma and dash.
     
    AngryVirginian, Oct 19, 2022
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  3. Markswift2003

    Markswift2003 Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Beta test group Contributor

    I only add the year if there are two movies of the same name in different years, and then only to the later one - eg Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters (2016)
     
    Markswift2003, Oct 19, 2022
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