Assistance with Automatic Movie Recognition via Filenames with Dots

[BoBBer446]

Hello Jellyfin Community,

I'm seeking assistance with the automatic recognition of movie files in Jellyfin. Many of my movie files have names with dots as separators, e.g., "Movie.Name.YEAR.mkv", which seems to cause issues with the automatic metadata retrieval process.

While using IMDb's search with the same string yields the correct movie, Jellyfin often fails to recognize the file correctly. Manual renaming of each file is not a viable option due to the large number of files.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue and found a solution? Perhaps a plugin or a specific naming convention that could help Jellyfin parse the filename correctly? Or maybe a script that can match the files to IMDb IDs and update the metadata accordingly?

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards

[tmsrxzar]

afaik there are no such issues with jellyfin, all of my files uses periods instead of spaces because it's easier for me on linux

recommend looking in a different direction to find the cause of the issue
most of the time when something isn't identified for me it's because i put the wrong year

[TheDreadPirate]

Dots are fine as a separator. In my experience, having the year in the FILE name is problematic. But having the year the movie was released in the FOLDER name is fine.

[BoBBer446]

ok, thx. i check. mazbe i extract the year from file.
I give a response if i found a solution

[BoBBer446]

Im searching for Peter.Pan.Neue.Abenteuer.in.Nimmerland
No results found

Same Termn on https://www.imdb.com/
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=Peter.Pan.N..._=nv_sr_sm
i found it.

Same here:
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=Himmel.und...._=nv_sr_sm
imd is match but "Identify" on Jellyfin: No results

Here same, just one hit on imdb:
Triff.die.Robinsons

https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=Triff.die.R..._=nv_sr_sm
Jellyfin Identify: no reults

Bit tricky

[TheDreadPirate]

When you are using the identify function in Jellyfin are you using the name or the ID? Either should work.

[tmsrxzar]

imdb is not tmdb
the 'identify' does not remove periods, the scraper should though

does not work (this would be called when using identify)
https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=himmel.und.huhn

does work (this should be called when using automated scraping)
https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=...und%20huhn

[BoBBer446]

When you are using the identify function in Jellyfin are you using the name or the ID? Either should work.
>> if i use id it works
>> if i copy the file name it did not work
>> But it works with filename on https://www.imdb.com/

imdb is not tmdb
the 'identify' does not remove periods, the scraper should though
>> okay its a goof point.
Identify is using themoviedb ?

But searching with Tag is imdb ?

https://i.imgur.com/3uIWSvt.png

Is it possible to use imdb as default ?

[tmsrxzar]

But searching with Tag is imdb ?
Is it possible to use imdb as default ?

no, it's never using imdb, it's searching tmdb for the imdb id since tmdb also indexes imdb id's https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/metadata

you can force it to identify by the imdb id but you will have to add it to your files or folders name like 'Movie (2021) [imdbid-tt12801262]' https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies

[toytown]

Dots are fine as a separator.  In my experience, having the year in the FILE name is problematic.  But having the year the movie was released in the FOLDER name is fine.

It certainly shouldn't be problematic, every single one of my movies has the year in the filename and only a very few have been mis-identified.  None of my movies are in their own folders and their files are named such as "Schindler's List (1993).mkv"