I have some strange behaviour with fetching movie metadata. For some movies with a german title I have the problem, that the movie will recognized as another movie often but not always from the same movie collection).
I organized my movies in folders. Every movie has its own folder with poster.jpg and the movie file.
Here are an example (I used copy and paste to be sure that is no difference in the naming):
(1) Foldername = “Stirb langsam 2 (1990)”
This is part two of the Die Hard collection.
Title in TheMovieDB = “Stirb langsam 2”
Release date in TheMovieDB = “25.10.1990” → 10/25/1990
Infuse recognized the movie as part one of the Die Hard Collection with the name “Stirb langsam” from 1988
(2) Foldername = “Jurassic Park III (2001)”
Title in TheMovieDB = “Jurassic Park III”
Release date in TheMovieDB = “02.08.2001” → 08/02/2001
Infuse recognized the movie as part two of the Jurassic Park collection with the name “Vergessene Welt: Jurassic Park” from 1997
(3) Foldername “X-Men 2 (2003)”
Title in TheMovieDB = “X-Men 2”
Release date in TheMovieDB = “01.05.2003” → 05/01/2003
Infuse recognized the movie as part two of the Men in Black collection with the name “Men in Black II” from 2002
In these examples I have the movie twice in my library: one movie correct recognized as the movie it is and one movie wrong recognized as describes.
Infuse searches for metadata using the file name so the folder name may not be helping. Could you provide the file names for the ones causing you problems?
the filenames are mostly identical to the folder:
(1) “Stirb langsam 2.1990.1080p.mkv”
(2) “Jurassic Park III.2001.1080p.mkv”
(3) “X-Men 2.2003.1080p.mkv”
I also tested with local nfo-files, which I created with MediaElch. In Infuse I turned off fetching metadata online, so only the local nfo-file will be used by Infuse for the metadata and everything is fine - I thought.
When I turn on again fetching metadata because I want to use collection, then the same problem is here again. Infuse will find two identical movies:
(1) “Stirb langsam.1988.1080p.mkv” and “Stirb langsam 2.1990.1080p.mkv” appear as movie “Stirb langsam”
(2) “Jurassic Park.1993.1080p.mkv” and “Jurassic Park III.2001.1080p.mkv” appear as movie “Jurassic Park”
(3) “Men in Black II.2002.1080p.mkv” and “X-Men 2.2003.1080p.mkv” appear as movie “Men in Black II”
When I manually edit the metadata in Infuse and link this mkv-file to the correct movie, then everything is ok. But without this manual edit, it seems to be a problem of infuse that it will somehow ignore local nfo-files and search in TheMovieDB.
So in my opinion there are more than one problem:
Wrong search results and wrong matching of movies
When using local nfo-files and also fetching metadata online (because collection shall be used), local nfo-files will sometimes ignored and the wrong searching results will happen again
When I disable online fetching of metadata because I only want to use nfo-files, I cannot use collection because there are no offline functionality for collections
This will happen on iOS and tvOS in the same manner.
Have you tried the edit metadata function on the ones that are incorrect? If you can do the correction that way Infuse will remember the correct one in the future.
Also, Infuse will use local files first when looking for metadata and then if not found it will go to the external sources so you don’t have to disable metadata fetching. You will want to turn off “Embedded Metadata” and leave “Metadata Fetching” on.
After manual editing of the metadata, Infuse will remember the correct movie. This helped in my case.
But I found it really strange that “X-Men 2” is identified as “Men in Black II”. I only had problems with movies with “numbers” in the title like “Stirb langsam” and “Stirb langsam 2”, “Fluch der Karibik” and “Fluch der Karibik 2” and so on.
Thanks for your help and listening to my problem.
For me this topic is solved but in my opinion there is still an issue with the search engine - maybe at TheMovieDB and not with Infuse.
One last question about this topic: when I delete all local cached metadata and reload all infos from my NAS (because I changed a lot of artwork), is this manual connection/, which I edited manually in the menu to edit metadata, still linked? Or is it necessary that I do this manual edit again?