Problems when there are several films with the same name

[contempor]

to make it short:

I have a problem with films having the same name.
for example Drive (2011), Limitless (2011) and Taken (2008).
I am using the GUI Filebot version. not the cli one, because i dont know how to make it.
it asks me everytime which film it should choose. but i have to test it again and again. and if i want to rename it after 1 week again, it happens again.
how can i solve it?

thanks in advance

[rednoah]

Ok so I tried "E:\testdata\Drive (2011)\Drive (2011).avi" and it didn't ask me.

I guess the easiest thing would be to have a .nfo file in each movie folder with IMDb or TheMovieDB URI.

Here's a script that will generate .nfo files:
http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/v ... 4&t=5#p205

[contempor]

i am using a flat structure. i have a folder called movies with all the single files in there with the right cover.
so i have just to click once without folders.

i dont want to use nfo files because my folder would mess up.

i think i have one solution but i cant do it: it should choose the film name with the most votes on imdb.
can someone help me to do it?

by the way: filebot shows that it found drive, but thats the wrong film. why?
i have a naming structure like: Drive (2011) - 247.000votes - 7.9rating
but filebot shows me: Drive (2011) - 000.000votes - 7.6rating
because it founds this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072950/

please help someone.

[rednoah]

Found an issue in the IMDb scraper. Will be fixed with next release.

PS: I recommend using TheMovieDB. That one just works since it's a stable API.


EDIT:
btw are you running filebot every week just to update the votes/rating parts of the name??? Don't do that. You're just causing unnecessary load to all the services filebot uses, making it harder for people to pay the server bills for services they provide for free anyway.

[contempor]

your update would be perfect. i am running it est. 2weeks, but only for about 10-20 films, only for the 2012 films. for the older films most of the votes wont change. thank you noah

[rednoah]

Sure, for a few movies it won't matter.

You can grab the latest r1396 here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filebo ... ebot/HEAD/

[contempor]

ok that was very kind. i will donate sth little. thank you noah
which one should i download. filebot-3.2-r1396-imdbfix.jar ? and then? i have a mac mountain lion.

[contempor]

have got problems with Prometheus (2012). it shows Prometheus (2012) - - - K - - without the votes and rating.
can you add the automatic validate if there are ":" in the names so everything works automatic.

[rednoah]

I'm not sure what you mean. What's your format expression?

[contempor]

{n} ({y}) - {imdb.rating} - K{Math.round(imdb.votes/1000)pad(3)} - {director} - {genres}

[rednoah]

I tried with "Prometheus (2012).avi". The format expression evaluates to "Prometheus (2012) - 7.2 - K228 - Ridley Scott - [Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller]" on the rhs list. Can't reproduce that issue here.

The {imdb} bindings grabs data from http://www.omdbapi.com. Maybe that site was down at the time and so it couldn't get any data.