Infuse sometimes picks the wrong movie.
That can happen when 2 movies have similar, or identical names.
Adding (year) to the filename, with the year being the one referenced by imdb, solved it most of the times.
If it did not, adding the ID number from TMDB or IMDb, as indicated in this support document, always solved it, overriding the TMDB lookup results.
This does not seem to work anymore.
For example, for the 2003 live action Peter Pan movie,
“Peter Pan (2003).mkv” gets the metadata for the 1953 movie
and “Peter Pan {imdb-tt0316396}.mkv”, should get the metadata for the movie with IMDb ID tt0316396, for which the URL Peter Pan (2003) - Reference View - IMDb …which is the 2003 live action Peter Pan movie.
But it still gets the metadata for the 1953 animated Peter Pan movie.
I believe this is a bug, or a regression, since it used to work flawlessly (at least according to my experience).
I have now had the same issue, and also when using the TMBD ID, several times recently.
I may also be doing it completely wrong!
@james , can you confirm that I correctly understand how it should work?
Have you changed the IMDB ID number to the TMDB number and see if it works? Some movies may not have the IMDB number entered on TMDB and they won’t match.
Now why even with the 2003 year in the file name it still picks up the 1953 version ( did verify this, it did it for me too) I do not know but if you add the TMDB number it got it right.
Thanks @NC_Bullseye
It also actually works on my Mac with the imdb or tmdb ID now.
The issue I had today was after adding the 2003 movie to a kid’s iPad Infuse library. It showed as the 1953 movie in spite of the IMDb ID. It was actually grouped with the 1953 movie that was already there.
Note that this was on a OneDrive.
Also, it seems that, even when I change the name of a file, Infuse sometimes keeps the old metadata - anyway I am quite confused and I wish using the IMDb or TMDb ID would always work.
A different issue but also “fun”: if you put the name “Peter Pan (2004).mkv” it gets recongized as the 2003 (while “Peter Pan (2003).mkv” gets recognized as the 1953 movie)
Yes, probably a temporary glitch in the Matrix.
I’ve seen quite many recently though.
Wondering if it has to do with the languages used (kid’s iPad was all French, my Apple TV is all English, my Macs are in French but all Infuse langage prefs are set to English)
It wasn’t a language thing for me even with the correct year without the ID number it still identified the 2003 as the 1953 with is REALLY weird. But as soon as I added the TMDB ID number it popped right in correctly.
there have been a lot of issues with OneDrive (not only in Infuse) which might explain the glitches in the Matric,
when I update the name of the video, it seems Infuse does not always update the metadata. It is for example the case if I changes the name of a file on my Synology NAS, and the name change is then synced with OneDrive.
So it is quite tricky to correct the metadata for al devices/accounts (manual metadata in Infuse is just not a workable option)
It’d be much better IMHO if Infuse always looked up for updated metadata after a file has changes name.
