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cochinada:
Hello Support and community,

My movies reside on shared folders in different HDD's on my Windows PC that I have shared on the Network and mounted on my Debian HTPC where I have JRiver MC.

For instance, on my drive E: I have this structure:
E://movies/Action/Extraction (2020)/Extraction.mkv

And the shared folder is 'E://movies' with the name "moviese"

So in /etc/fstab on my HTPC I've added a line as this in order to mount this folder permanently:

//192.168.1.66/moviese /media/MoviesE cifs credentials=/home/joaquim/.smbcred,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0


Now for my main query, I've read several threads already on this forum about MKV tagging and whatnot. Some were quite disturbing like this one:
"We don't support writing tags to video files in general, so while you can change them in the MC database, it won't be reflected in the actual file tags."
or this:
"MC will read the tags in MKVs but not write them. You can make sure sidecar files are up to date by using 'update tags from library'. I think MC typically updates sidecars automatically, but there are times when it fails."

Basically I just want to know how can I properly tag my MKV files and which tags are key so that at the very least I'm able to see the correct movie name and date of release in MC afterwards?

For instance, I noticed there is a TAG under the Advanced group called 'IMDb ID'. Perhaps naively I thought that populating this tag should be enough for MC to fetch the correct information about the MKV file that I'm importing so, after searching I found out how to get this value from IMDb.
However, I've tried to add a custom tag called exactly 'IMDb ID' on Mp3tag but after importing the file into my MC Library, that tag remains empty, so obviously MC is not mapping its own tag with the one I've added to the MKV file via Mp3tag with the same name. Why is that?

Ultimately, I'm seeing many obstacles for proper tagging movies and perhaps MC is not the best option for a movie library after all if there is no simple way to tag it.

I also use MKVToolNix now and then but this seems even more limited than Mp3tag as I could only found a place to write the Title tag.

mattkhan:
Is there a reason why you don't use MC to get the movie info?

cochinada:
No reason at all. How is MC able to get the movie info in the 1st place? That's what I'm asking when I asked how should I tag or name my MKV files.

For sure there must be something either with the name of the file or some tag that will allow MC to identify the movie. If I call my MKV file something like xpto.mkv and have no tags, MC will never guess what this is, so what do I have to do in preparation first?

mattkhan:

--- Quote from: cochinada on November 10, 2024, 08:22:39 am ---If I call my MKV file something like xpto.mkv and have no tags, MC will never guess what this is, so what do I have to do in preparation first?

--- End quote ---
you don't *have* to do anything, you can just enter the name in the Get Movie & TV Info box and pick the entry you want

cochinada:
It's the 1st time I'm doing this so that Info Box was new to me.
Do I have to do this manually on each movie I've imported or is there a way to?
For the first movie I opened that Box, I got more then a dozen results but the 1st one from TMDb seems the correct one.
Also the "Search" filed was already populated with the name of the movie. Where does this come from?

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