Actually, folder names means nothing, the app will grab metadata from the file itself, so, if u name the files with the year it will help, as told by @NC_Bullseye.
As a matter of fact, u can “manage” the metadata by clicking on “Edit” and choosing yourself the matching content but, I guees this would be such a headache if u have lots of movies.
Seriously? Why? There is no Tokyo or Drift in the filename
Fast and Furious 6.mkv is grabbed correctly to Fast & Furious 6
and than: Fast and Furious 5.mkv Fast and Furious 7.mkv Fast and Furious 8.mkv
are ALL grabbed as Fast & Furious 10.
All Fast and Furious files are in one folder (Fast and Furious Saga)
John Wick.mkv is grabbed as John Wick Kapitel 3 (why, there is not a single number in the filename) John Wick Kapitel 2.mkv is grabbed as John Wick: Kapitel 2 John Wick Kapitel 3.mkv is grabbed as John Wick: Kapitel 5
Again, following the recommended naming of movie name and year will fix the vast majority of the issues you’re having.
Here are the names of the fast and furious collection and all will grab the correct metadata when used as a file name. Note that special characters like the ampersand (&) and colon ( : ) should be changed to the word “and” and just delete the colon since some systems see these as control characters.
These file names pulled all correctly without a problem first time.
The Fast and the Furious 2001.mkv
2 Fast 2 Furious 2003.mkv
The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift 2006.mkv
Fast & Furious 2009.mkv
Fast Five 2011.mkv
Fast and Furious 6 2013.mkv
Furious 7 2015.mkv
The Fate of the Furious 2017.mkv
You can add additional info after the year and before the extention and the API will still gather the correct info.
Please add the release year to your file names to help the API select the correct info.
Fast and Furious 5.mkv Fast and Furious 7.mkv Fast and Furious 8.mkv
is 100% unmistakable. So why can’t Infuse work with this clear data?
I can’t and will not understand why Infuse cannot Name Fast and Furios 6.mkv with Fast & Furious 6
The selection of the movies is coming from TheMovieDB API, not Infuse. You can bring it up with them if you don’t like the order that gets returned. But you can manually select the correct movies within infuse or change the file names as NC_Bullseye suggested.
It may be clear to you but those are not the names of the movies. One could use the same argument that it should recognize “First Fast And Furious.mkv” “Second Fast And Furious.mkv” and so on but those are not the names of the movies and the API is not going to see them correctly.
If you name the files using the recommended format with the correct name of the movie things will work.
You can still put them in a group folder and that won’t affect a thing but If you want the correct metadata without hassle you’ll have to name the files correctly.
I´m now renaming the file to Pirates of the Caribbean - Fremde Gezeiten (2011).mkv
and this doesn’t work
Okay. I´m now 100% sure that the folder naming is important.
I´ve renamed the folder Fluch.der.Karibik.5.Salazars.Rache.2017.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-HQX
to Fluch der Karibik 5 (2017) Salazars.Rache.2017.German.AC3.DL.1080p.BluRay.x265-HQX
If you look at TMDb site there is no number after Pirates of the Caribbean so that might throw it off sometimes. You can also do a search there to confirm.
The sources for the information (TVDB and TMDB) have updates to their APIs. Infuse would then have to follow the requirements of the new API. That would be my guess.
I haven’t had any issues in several years following the recommended naming and file structures.