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I have it set to import titles from the metadata of files if it can't find online info, but it still sets the title of imported episodes to the filename. Is this a bug, or is that behavior only supposed to apply to movies?

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Hi there, please provide an example. Thanks.

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I created a directory for "Silly Symphonies" and added it as a TV show (really a movie series, but it still works). I had, for instance, a file called "s1929e01 - The Skeleton Dance.mkv". In the metadata, the film's title was set to "The Skeleton Dance". When I scanned the directory for new files, the episode showed up with the name "s1929e01 - The Skeleton Dance" and it should have just named it "The Skeleton Dance". Or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?

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We don't parse the episode title out of the file name, so that only happens if it was able to get the title from internet metadata using the season and episode number.

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You've completely confused me now. I don't understand what you mean.

It did get the episode title from the filename. It wouldn't have gotten "s1929e01 - The Skeleton Dance" from the internet.

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Right, but the only way that turns into just the skeleton dance is from internet metadata.

Posted

Okay, so I guess I don't understand what "Prefer embedded titles over filenames" does.

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Embedded meaning the title is inside the video file.

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But the title is inside the video file. I've edited the MKV metadata so that the movie name is "The Skeleton Dance".

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Can you provide a sample video for testing? Thanks.

Happy2Play
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Seems to work here.

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Is there pre-existing nfo file?

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I turned off the "Prefer embedded titles" option and turned it back on and that fixed it. Sorry, guess I should have tried that before...

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That's strange. Thanks for the feedback.

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