remove duplicates from {tags}
Posted: 18 May 2026, 13:30
Hello.
I'm using {tags} and I see tags is matching both infos from filename + title tag in mkv, which is pretty good (ref viewtopic.php?t=12668)
However it may result in having duplicate values
eg. assuming one of my movie is named "one great movie (1999) Imax.mkv" and also has a title named "one great movie (1999) IMAX version"
In that particular case {tags} displays [IMAX, Imax]
Is there any way to remove these duplicates ?
I already tried tags*.upper().unique() but then all values are set in upper.
For un unknown reason tags*.upperInital().unique() doest not work :'(
thank you for your help in finding any workaround
NB: my config is
I'm using {tags} and I see tags is matching both infos from filename + title tag in mkv, which is pretty good (ref viewtopic.php?t=12668)
However it may result in having duplicate values
eg. assuming one of my movie is named "one great movie (1999) Imax.mkv" and also has a title named "one great movie (1999) IMAX version"
In that particular case {tags} displays [IMAX, Imax]
Is there any way to remove these duplicates ?
I already tried tags*.upper().unique() but then all values are set in upper.
For un unknown reason tags*.upperInital().unique() doest not work :'(
thank you for your help in finding any workaround
NB: my config is
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{tags} does all of the above by default, except evidently not for Imax / IMAX which seems to be a corner case where default normalisation is not applied which then makes deduplication not work.
You can fix the issue via your custom format code like so:
