Thank you for your reply and advice. I understand that there may be slight differences in the file names of the files.
But my point is that this problem wasn’t a problem with the earlier versions and dare I say neither does Plex with same file names have this issue either. Slightly different dates are usually still recognised correctly.
Example the movie 1917 (2019) shows as year 2020 in the TMDB. Plex recognises it Infuse ipad does not, unless I manually edit the metadata.
Similar but diff with 2 Guns (2013) shows in TMDB as 2013, but not recognised by Infuse ipad. Same with Personnal Shopper 2016.
These were all recognised and organised perfectly before the recent change, so has something changed at TMDB as well as the Infuse update, perhaps in coincidence??
I have run a metadata refresh n the ipad twice recently. Nothing changes.
cheers CD
BTW - Regards the above earlier - Vast of Night is 2020 movie, and Queen of the Ring is 2024.
As mentioned above, it would be best to use the primary release year as listed on TMDB. As of 8.4, this is what Infuse will use for matching movies and TV shows.
I’ll be adjusting them all with the tmdbid… With Filebot this is reasonably simple, just check that Filebot fine the correct show/movie first. Otherwise the tmdbid is in the url of the web page.
Question about the adding of the TMDBID. Does it also work with TV shows and folder names?
I mean it’s easier to add {tmdb-xxxxx} to a folder than to every single episode released. Just think of The Simpsons with 37 seasons of some 25 episodes…
Just a thought, if you’re using a Mac then it’d only take a minute to rename all of the series folder. The “Rename” function with “Find and Replace” works great, and fast. Just select all of the files and rename them.
Also to the Walking with Dinosaurs series, adding the year to files and series folder also works very well.
The idea I had was, because the year is mutable, to simply have
Walking with Dinosaurs {tmdb-xxxx}
After all, the id is immutable, so they could rename it to “Fred Flintstone’s favorite pets” and change the year to 25.000 BC it would still go to the original one I wanted. In theory the folder could be named {tmdb-xxx} and it should suffice.
[edit]I use Filebot as a batch rename tool, and simply used {Plex} as rename mask. I was surprised the dinosaurs were linked to the 2025 version[/edit]
I’ve never tried adding the TMDB to the folder but if it works that’d be great.
If it doesn’t work it’d make a good suggestion for Infuse.
I’m stuck in the Apple/Mac world so I stick with the old reliable rename built into the finder but I may give Filebot a shot if they have a mac version.
The Mac rename would work to put the TMDB numbers in the file names too just as fast if a user doesn’t have access to filebot.