Often match with wrong year (1 Viewer)

[Zinu]

I often encounter MoPi selecting a match for a movie that has the same name, but it much less likely to be the right one since it's really old. I've had this twice in my latest run:
- Funny People. From 2009, matches with one from somewhere in the 70's.
- Stephen King's It. From 1990, matches with some less known movie with the same title from 1966.

How come it does this? It looks like they didn't match on something like popularity. I've ran through all the settings trying to look for somthing that could cause this, but with no avail.

What IS causing MoPi to select those other matches instead of the one that has more odds of being the one I need?

I'm using the latest beta. Scraper is moviemeter.nl with imdb.com as second.

 

[RoChess]

If your filename/folder lacks the year information, or if you do not have nfo/txt tagging along with the movie to clarify which one it is, then you should adjust your auto-match slider all the way to the left to avoid those older movies with the same title to be picked.

In your log file you can see more how the movie matches are tagged for auto matching.

But you are right, imdb.com themselve have some sort of popularity sorting going on and show the most likely movie first. So maybe the Moving Pictures scraper can make more use of that (or rely on Google with site:imdb.com/title as PageRank also comes into play then), but I must say on the wacky collection I have myself, it is doing a very good job by default.

 

[fforde]

I often encounter MoPi selecting a match for a movie that has the same name, but it much less likely to be the right one since it's really old. I've had this twice in my latest run:
- Funny People. From 2009, matches with one from somewhere in the 70's.
- Stephen King's It. From 1990, matches with some less known movie with the same title from 1966.

How come it does this? It looks like they didn't match on something like popularity. I've ran through all the settings trying to look for somthing that could cause this, but with no avail.

What IS causing MoPi to select those other matches instead of the one that has more odds of being the one I need?

I'm using the latest beta. Scraper is moviemeter.nl with imdb.com as second.

Congratulations, you have found a bug in Moving Pictures! Data Providers do have the opportunity to provide "popularity" information about possible matches. The purpose is to prevent situations exactly like what you are experiencing, all other things being equal, popularity will be used as a tie-breaker. The problem here is the new internal moviemeter.nl data provider does not set popularity for some reason. I have gone ahead and made a fix which will resolve your issue, but because this particular provider is actually a part of the plugin rather than a script, you will have to wait until we push out Moving Pictures 1.0.1. I can't give an exact date but our goal is to get 1.0.1 out as fast as possible as a release candidate for 1.0 Final.

Sorry for the trouble.

 

[Zinu]

I'll try adjusting the slider all the way to the left, maybe that solves the problem a little I'll be eagerly waiting!

 

[fforde]

That will not solve the problem Zinu. The issue is that there are two movies with the same name that would both get auto approved. With no popularity data they are getting sorted out of order and sometimes the wrong movie shows up on top. Causing the 1977 version instead ofr the 2009 version to get auto approved.

 

[Zinu]

It seems to be working now I downloaded the new beta, sent those faulty matches to the importer and it matched with the right movie. Great!

 

[fforde]

Fantastic, glad to hear it.