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Scrapping with "." or extra words in the title. - raviol - 08-17-2022
Hey guys,
So I wanted to automate my ISOs game folder but I'm struggling to match the metadata for them.
I configured an emulator (Daemon Tools) with .iso as their ROM files. All my ISOs were imported, so that's fine.
Then when I looked for metadata most of my games didn't get any metadata fetched (I installed almost every metadata plugin, so I'm making sure it searches in all of them).
The issue seems to be in the name of the games. My ISOs looks mostly like this: "Alien.vs.Predator.2010.English.Disk1" so most of metadata services doesn't identify them unless I manually remove the dots, year, language and disk. So if I search for "Alien vs Predator" I got all metadata fetched.
My collection is very big so it is not an option to do this manually. Is there any tool, plug-in, script or configuration I can do in order to remove some of the elements of the titles before searching for metadata?
Thank you!
RE: Scrapping with "." or extra words in the title. - Crow - 08-17-2022
The issue is not with ".", as far as I remember those should be automatically replaced with spaces. But the bigger problem is "2010" and "English" parts that will cause issues with metadata matching.
RE: Scrapping with "." or extra words in the title. - Karakan - 09-23-2022
Just rename all files using something like Bulk Rename Utility.