New Zidoo Z3000 Pro owner here. I want HT5 to replace Plex (for so many reasons). I've searched these forums and cannot find a workaround for my problem. My use-case: From blurays I own, I rip the movie to MKV and I also always rip the bonus content because I enjoy deleted scenes and interviews. Most of my 800+ movies have bonus extras in their folder. This means I have multiple MKV files in each movie's folder. Seems like a simple need, right? Maybe even a need most of us have? The problem: The Zidoo HT file naming guide I have (Dec 2025), is clear that I need to append all the files in the movie folder with "(1#Movie)", "(2# Bonus content)", and so on. The requirement to rename the default movie file breaks any naming/script/matching tool I use. When I manually rename the 800 movie files to say "(#Movie), TinyMM won't automatically find a match on any of them because the file name isn't the name of the movie any more. What I've tried: I tried just having TinyMM name every movie file to have "(#Movie) but then all the local artwork will have that (#Movie) suffix and it breaks the local art. I've tried all manner of folder and naming combinations and HT5 results in hundreds of unmatched movies, or the extras are unplayable. I've tried powershell naming scripts and get the same result. Any programmatic naming/matching routine won't work with this requirement to name the movie file differently sometimes. Conclusion: HT5 needs to remove the requirement to have a "(#Movie)" suffix for the main movie in the folder. Be like Plex and simply assume that the file without a suffix is the movie file. OR Is there a workaround I'm not aware of that others are using to have bonus content AND use TinyMM (or any other media management tool) so I don't have to manually rename all these files?
Yes. Everything is rooted on the movie file name in TMM and convention. HT5 naming contradicts itself and general movie file name conventions (Kodi, TMM, Plex, Emby). The HT5 guide says "Always name the video file exactly the same as listed in TMDB." Which works great, but then all of the bonus extras are unmatched in HT5 and unplayable. When the movie file is appended with "(1#Movie)" then all other related art, NFO, etc are based off that file name. So you get "Arrival.2016.(#Movie)-poster.jpg" and "Arrival.2016.(#Movie).nfo" which breaks all the matching because it understandably doesn't recognized that movie title. HT5 needs more tags like "-trailer" (except -trailer is bound to the trailer button so that cannot be used for this purpose). We need a "-extras" or "-other" tag to simply have the boxes show the extra vids. Then problem is solved.
