Provider Tag/ID in the episode breaks show match

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I noticed that specifically tagging episodes with a movie db id, breaks their association to that piece of media and dumps them into “other” as random files. I’m not sure if this a bug or simply a non-covered edge case. But I recently started tagging my files and not just their container for my personal organization.

to illustrate:

#auto match passes
/The Office (2005) {tmdbid-2316}/The Office (2005) - S01E05 - Pilot.mkv

#auto match fails
/The Office (2005) {tmdbid-2316}/The Office (2005) {tmdbid-2316} - S01E05 - Pilot.mkv

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You can put the ID after the S0xE0x in the episode file name. Infuse looks for naming matched based on everything before the S0xRE0x.

Try

The Office (2005) - S01E05 - {tmdbid-2316} - Pilot.mkv

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In TV show naming, does infuse support tmdbid? I only remember it works for movies, like {tmdb-xxx}

4

I just checked the wiki and youre right. it’s {tmdb-xxx} and not how I named it.
I’ll try it the other way and see if it was just user error on my part.

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I just edited my earlier post, I goofed the name. Try this for the episode file name format.

The Office (2005) - S01E05 - {tmdbid-2316} - Pilot.mkv

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Does tmdbid apply to TV shows? I only saw support for movies in the documentation.

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The OP stated they were adding the ID for “personal organization” not necessarily for matching with TMDB which may come in the future.

The reason the OP had a problem is the addition of the ID number before the season and episode number in the file name. That will cause problems. If the number is added after the season and episode number it will still find the right show from TMDB.

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So I wasnt aware infuse doesnt auto match tv shows with ids like it does with movies.
I’ll make sure to keep the id tag after the SxxEyy. but can I ask, do you know why the feature wasnt just applied to both media types?

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I really don’t know why but I’d guess it has to do with tv shows having multiple episodes and seasons to scan for ID numbers vs movies being a single entity. It may even be too many calls to TMDB to verify during certain processes but this is all a guess on my part.

I will say that since Infuse now recognizes the year in the naming for TV shows and keeping with the name format of “ShowName Year S0xE0x AnyOtherInfo.mkv” I get about 95%+ accurate metadata pulls.

Once in a while it goes awry but so seldom it’s not a problem.

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Just an Idea, but I think the devs could solve any api call issue with a pre-flight summary id eval. If every file in a folder has the same parsed ID, just make one call to tmdb. if its mixed, the app can can safely conclude this dir probably isnt a dedicated show folder or the user mistakenly organized their files. Eitherway, a fall back to default name matching can take over in that case. Oh well maybe the feature will get revisited in the future.