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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jamieo" data-source="post: 294484" data-attributes="member: 53052">Actually, I don't think it's that unusual and seco is basically requesting the same functionality as I am.  We also seem to be in the same situation of being unable to use your program because:1)  Movie Titles are not recognisedThis can be rectified most easily by using the parent folder name for the movie title instead - in certain cases this may lead to a few entries with the same title (a trilogy stored in the same folder), but a little manual intervention would be required for those anyhow and if anything it'll make it easy to spot them and add the hierachy info.  For instance, I'll have three entries called "Bourne Trilogy" so I just append the '\' character and the real titles after so they are treated as a group by the MyFilms plugin.  Perhaps your program could even help with that by automatically appending the filename to all duplicates ie, "FolderName\FileName" - it would still require manual correction to be perfect but it'll really help.Btw, seco suggested some regex cleanup operation and MPTVSeries implements this well but only because is also uses the whole path.  Looking at my tv series collection it mainly uses the filename for the season and episode numbers only, while extracting the series title from the parent folder name(s).  Also, many of my files do not even include the movie/series title in the filename but in the folder name only.2) Too many extraneous files are also importedIf secos folder structure is anything like mine then simply ignoring certain folders will sort this one.  I'll send you a short output from cmd tree /f as an example and I hope that'll clear things up.At the very least a simple list of exact but case-insensitive names that's checked against would fulfil this in the meantime, ie:Folder_Exclusion_List.txt:extraextrassamplesamplesPsedo code during scanIf the folder name matches exactly* to the list   then ignore this entire folder and carry on.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />*Match is case insensitive though...</blockquote>

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