I believe he wrote these will be parsed automatically (without brackets), and any other text not so treated can be included using the {edition-TEXT} format.
No brackets or ‘edition’ text required for this this particular list of items.
The edition tag can be used in addition to this if you want to specify other arbitrary tags, or tweak how the tags appear.
Also, these only kick in if you have multiple versions of the same item. If your library consists of single copies of everything (which is probably most people), this new feature will have no impact.
Agree it makes sense to only parse this info if included after the release year, but enough people don’t include the date that he’s probably decided accounting for that is too problematic.
(While writing my own scripts to parse filenames, I’ve had to account for dates that aren’t parenthesized, those that are, those that are in brackets, and those that I might misidentify because they’re actually movie titles or included in movie titles … which happens more than I’d thought … even after limiting my consideration to only 4 digit numbers beginning in 19 or 20).
The phrases listed are specific enough they aren’t likely to be included in the names of titles and be mistaken (though I wouldn’t be surprised if “black and white” won’t be at some point … I do know that just searching for “IMAX” and pulling the text from the title broke my parsing of one such item — “Voyage of Time - An IMAX Documentary” — which became just “Voyage of Time — An Documentary” in my first attempt).
Thus I get why my preferred abbreviations won’t be parsed that way. Though I do wish they might be if included in brackets absent “version-“ tagging …. but I grok why such accommodations inevitably lead to such considerations inevitably increasing the chances for things to break.
In the time this feature hasn’t been available I’ve taken to differentiating the different versions of titles I have multiple copies of by taking time to create (and get used to viewing my) distinct customized posters and fanart images for each.
How will such personalized images be treated? Will all versions be collapsed to one in the library? Which item’s poster artwork will be shown? Will highlighting the various buttons that are used to select among the available versions at least change the fanart displayed on the details page to the ones used for each particular version?
Is this feature going to be optional (i.e. can we choose to opt out)?